A Bunch of Questions...Share
The Bunch of Questions...Share Chain
Letter
This chain comes on the heels of the infamous "25
Random Things About Me" Facebook meme, but it asks specific yet very meaningless
questions.
It uses cunning strategies to get the mad pointless
notes and tagging going.
1. The title.
"a Bunch of Questions...Share" or "Because I know
you don't know how to ask...Share" or some other title with the word
"share"
Why "share?"
This is all part of the big deception. Viral chain
originators don't want people catching on to the fact that they are letting
themselves get controled and manipulated to fill the internet with copies,
sometimes mutated copies, of their junk. So "spamming" is called "sharing" in
this scheme.
Already the word "share" in the title works to
break down a reader's defenses. After all, sharing is generous, and everybody
wants to be associated with such a lovely generous act.
2. The challenge and assumption of a person's
character and ability.
"It is harder than you think!!"
This statement is apparently so important that it
is followed by 2 exclamation marks.
Let's look at what it is actually
saying.
It is telling you that it knows what you're
thinking, and you are probably not capable of answering a "bunch" of questions
such as the first one in this chain "Where is your cell phone?" the sort found
in every other chain survey there is, and a very "hard" task
indeed!
3. The blackmail.
"Here is what you are supposed to do...and please
don't spoil the fun..."
So, before the demands are even specified, you are
told that doing this thing is "fun" and if you refuse to do it, you are
"spoiling the fun. This is being said to insure you will not want to be thought
of as a fun-spoiler and you will follow this thing to the letter, right to the
tagging stages.
Please keep in mind this viral already assumes you
aren't capable of much, and that you will believe clogging up cyberspace with
more survey chains is "sharing" as opposed to spamming.
4. The demands.
"copy and paste into your own note, type in your
answers and tag a bunch of people - including me."
If everyone did that, they would get tagged over
and over again in the same chain note by "a bunch" of Facebook friends unable to
break this terrible habbit.
What followed was a "bunch" of questions typical of
all meaningless chain letter surveys.
To sum it up, you are probably doing a much harder
task by resisting the "bunch" and resistance does not make you guilty of
"spoiling the fun."
You could spoil the fun for someone else if you do
the survey and tag them. Who really wants to be tagged in a note that doesn't
even mention them, and was just done because somebody felt obligated to meet the
dictates of a meme?
Yes, you to, can say "no" to the
"bunch."
