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Are You A Friend?

  
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Fw: Are you a friend?
 
-Oh, brother!
 
-People, please stop allowing chain letters to make you doubt who your friends are and what kind of friend you are by dictating your online lives.
 
-This is a con job and everybody who has passed on this chain letter has been had!
 
-The goal of this insulting thing is to get everybody forwarding it on wildly. This particular chain just calls it "tagging." It's not tag. . It's junk with the word "friend" plastered all over it to look cuter and nicer than the viral waste it actually is.
 
TAG YOU'RE IT!!
 
-Like millions of other victims of this so-called friendship chain letter spam. I repeat, it is not a game of tag! It's the same thing as those good luck or love chain letters that tell you you'll be a millionaire and mary the world's most awsome crush of your life by passing on a billion copies, or threatens to make your life lousy if you refuse! The only difference between those chain letters and this one is the emotional angle. In this case, it's the "Friend! Tag! You're it!" schlock.
 
YOU HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED ONE OF MY SWEETEST FRIENDS ON MY LIST.
 
-Right, like the thousands of people this thing was sent to, I feel so incredibly special and I really believe that...Not!
 
This thing is obnoxious for another reason, it shouts. Everything is in all upper case. It's very bad manners to pass on chain letters. It's considered bad manners to write in all upper case as well.
 
ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN TAGGED YOU HAVE TO TAG 5 OF YOUR SWEETEST FRIENDS AND LET THEM KNOW THEY A RE SWEET.
 
-Translation: Once somebody has spammed your inbox with this chain letter, it tells you to spam 5 people with copies, helping it to continue mass-producing.
 
FAKE FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
 
-This is exactly what I mean when I say this chain letter is insulting. What coward actually originated it and who gave them the right to call me or any of my friends, or anyone else with enough common sense not to fall for it and spam their contacts with this dreck a fake friend?
 
-Here's a hint on real as opposed to fake friends.
 
-Fake friends would rather pass on chain letters than write something themselves.
 
-Real friends know not to spread deceptive coercive viral junkmail to their friends.
 
Send this to at least 5 people including me if u care.
 
-So, if I don't spam the person and five others with this piece of junk, that must mean I am a fake friend who doesn't care.
 
-Seriously, people, THINK! Do you really want to attempt to blackmail your friends into clogging up the net and sending you back tons of copies of this damn thing mascarading as a game of tag while calling you a fake friend who doesn't care about their friends?
 
Friends don't send friends this kind of crap!
 
If you wake up in a red room with no windows and doors,
DON'T panic..you're just in my heart!!!
 
-That is so lame, even a ten-year-old boy could write something more entertaining!
 
Send this to all the friend s you want to keep forever...
 
-Wrong. If you want to keep your friends forever, DO NOT send it to them!
 
If you get 7 back you are LOVED!!!
 
-Pile of rubbish! If anybody is ever unfortunate enough to get 7 copies of this stupid thing back, that just means there were 7 people on their junkmail-forwarding list who are easily manipulated, easily fooled, or both.

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