To Want To Gouge The Eyes Out of People That Send Those 'Forward This To 10 People Or Your Whole Family Will Die' Emails/Texts?

[Nancy66]

Just had my first promising horrible things for me in 2011 if I don't forward some text to 9 people.

I ALWAYS delete them.

It's bad enough getting them as junk but when it's your friends sending them with some whiney 'I know I know, sorry but I just didn't want to be the one to break the chain' excuse. Grrrrrr!!!

YANBU!

Anyone I know who has ever sent me one of those emails has got very short shrift, so no-one sends them any more. Do you actually complain to them, Nancy?

I just replied saying 'send me another one of these and you'll be cursed for the rest of your life, never mind 2011.'

....should do the trick.

My friend see me one of these at least once every couple of days I just ignore all texts from her now!

excellent work!

They're awful, and the same ones do the rounds all the time anyway.

I had one of those chinese horscopes ages ago and my friend wrote - sorry but just can't take the risk of not forwarding it on

YANBU. There is a horrible one doing the rounds of Year 7, something along the limes of Bloddy Mary will come and gouge your eyes out with a fork and slit your throat and your parents will find your corpse under the bed. Now I can understand 11 year old girls forwarding things like that but adults certainly should know better.

YANBU although I'd sooner cut their hands off so they couldn't do it any more!

If I ever get one of those ghastly things, whether text or email, I doctor them to take the threat off the bottom and then send them on, which is UTTERLY STUPID of me, I know. I will not pass on the superstitious stress to anyone else but sometimes the message itself is worth being sent to people I care about (nice pics, peace to everyone, lovely thoughts about friends and family, that kind of thing). If it's not worth passing on at all, I just delete.I always used to break chain letters as well.

Haven't had a nasty threat one for ages, thank goodness!

Hands cut off - and tongues cut out...so they can't tell anyone who cut their hands off.

Its the ones on FB book I cant stand like the recent one which tells you to change your profile pic to a cartoon character for a few days to stop domestic violence....eh how is that going to stop ahould I not change my pic anyone being violent..Should I not change my pic am I now responsible for domestic violence???

Im sure that people who go through horrific violence everyday will feel better knowing my avatar is a Pokemon...

I have one particular friend like this, and in 7 years, she still hasn't got the message that I delete them, do not forward them, am pissed off with her filling up my inbox with them, and nothing bad has happened. I'm not maimed, I've not lost loved ones, I'm erfectly hapy thank you.

YANBU!

"I had one of those chinese horscopes ages ago and my friend wrote - sorry but just can't take the risk of not forwarding it on"

Gosh, I'd have wanted to reply "I'm sorry, but I can't afford the risk of remaining friends with somebody that stupid" (but wouldn't actually have said it). "Risk" of what, precisely?! A small risk of sending a virus to all your friends in a chain email, or running out of credit on your phone because you've been forwarding too much junk, maybe.

Anyone remember the chain letter about husbands? God, it was funny. For those of you who have forgotton....

Parody chain letter. Husband exchange. US, 1980.

Dear Friend,

 This letter was started by a woman like yourself in the hope of bringing relief to other tired and discontented women.  Unlike most chain letters, this one does not cost anything.  Just send a copy of this letter to 5 of your friends who are equally tired and discontented.  Then, bundle up your husband or boy-friend and send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list.  Add your name to the bottom of the list.  When your name comes to the top you will receive 16,874 men and some of them are bound to be a hell of a lot better than the one you already have.

 Do not break the chain - have faith!  One women broke the chain and got her own S.O.B. back.  At this writing, a friend of mine already received 184 men.  They buried her yesterday but it took 3 undertakers 36 hours to get the smile off her face.

                                                              We are counting on you!
                                                                Liberated Woman

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YANBU I hate hate hate them.

I also hate the ones warning of terrible scams and gang related activity that you must forward to everyone you know so they don't fall foul of them (i.e. the ones about gangs throwing eggs at your windscreen which then turns opaque when mixed with water so you stop and get robbed). Without fail I check them on Snopes and reply to all with the truth - usually that it's a load of bollocks.

And without fail, my friends still forward them on to me 'just in case'. ARGHGAHAH

Not sure why it winds me up quite so much, it jsut really aggravates me that some losers start these emails just to try and scare people

Do peop send those any more? That's so last century, the gullible fool's weapon of choice in the 21st century is c&p facebook statuses.

Trillan - yes, on text now more than email.

Littlepicklehead - yes, i remember those. How anybody with a ponytail will get raped and mad axe men getting into your car at the garage when you go to pay.

Littlepicklehead, I know! Some people just refuse to be educated and still can't look things up on Snopes for themselves, annoys me rigid!

LittlePicklehead - absolutely, that really annoys me and I take great pleasure in debunking the scare email by use of Snopes, and forwarding it to all the people the sender forwarded to and the sender themselves.

I never forward emails that promise happiness or that you'll live if you send it to 5 people!

Snopes is fab - but I have had friends tell me before that they don't believe it! Yes, because an anonymous, badly spelled, much forwarded email/status is FAR more reliable...

I had one of these sent to me promising terrible things if I didn't forward it to friends.

I deleted it. My husband got a new job and my first novel was published.

I'm going to email that story to all my contacts Abr1de - and then tell them to forward it to all their friends or else they will die.

Or do you think that'll just seem sarky?

Snort, LittlePH!

I hate it when they say "send this to 10 of your favourite friends, including me" - it makes me seem a bad friend if i then don't send back cos it seems like i don't consider them a good friend. I still don't do it though.

If i get a message saying "what an amzing friend you are" etc etc i then text that friend back saying "aw thanks how lovely of you to say" and ignore the actual sending it to 10 people.

Grrr it so makes me mad though as they clog up my inbox on both PC and phone!

My son had a written chain letter once, when he was about eight. It was a from a friend, the same age, and promised him bad luck if he didn't forward it to a number of other children.

Something about the writing had made me suspicious and I opened the envelope to see what was in it. I then threw it away without my son ever seeing it. He was going through a bad patch, very sensitive, and I knew he'd worry about the bad luck if he didn't send it on to ten of his friends, which I wouldn't have allowed.

I then happened to see the sender's parents and explained why we weren't playing. They obviously thought I was being very over-sensitive, and they are nice, intelligent people!