To think that people who send this drivel by message/email etc should be taken outside and pelted with rotten fruit?

[ABloodyDifficultWoman]

Thought of you and I do believe in Karma. Hope u get something good out of it xx

This is for u x Read till the end! I sent an angel to watch over you last night, but it came back and asked "why?" The angel said, "angels don't watch over angels!" twenty angels are in your world. Ten are sleeping, nine of them are playing and one is reading this message. The universe has seen you struggling with some things and says it over. a blessing is coming your way. If you believe in Karma send this message to 14 friends including me, if I don't get it back I guess I'm not one of them. As soon as you get 5 replies, someone you love will quietly surprise you... Not joking. Pass this message on. Please don't ignore it. you are being tested and Karma is going to fix two big things tonight in your favor. If you believe in Karma drop everything and pass it on TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. DON'T BREAK THIS. SEND THIS TO 14 FRIENDS IN 10 MINUTES IT'S NOT THAT HARD. WHOEVER SENT THIS TO YOU MUST CARE ABOUT YOU

Just hold your finger on it n it should say forward

STOP IT NOW

I was seriously ill and being on my own (single), with only my very busy Adult DDs, who live in their own houses, I was feeling very vulnerable.

I was sent a 'chain message' and it really upset me. These things need to die out.

The people who send them who think that they are so spiritual, are thick as bricks.

YANBU! Sent on by the superstitious non thinkers 😡 Do they also 'reply all' to every email ever?! I am always surprised that the senders otherwise appear quite normal 🤔
Hate the 'like' picture senders too....esp the "if you think they are beautiful despite ......." Surely this makes an event of it rather than an acceptance of diversity?!

Huh, that list. DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT WOMEN WITH ENDOMETRIOSIS? You selfish bastards

superstitious non thinkers

Bloody exactly!

I did ask SIL once why on earth she kept forwarding this stuff and gently pointed out that it is complete nonsense but she replied that she 'couldn't take the risk'. How can you even reason with someone who thinks like that?

"If you believe in Karma send this message to 14 friends including me, if I don't get it back I guess I'm not one of them."

You guessed correctly. Bore off.

I hate the term "raising awareness" as well, posting a pic of my bra to "raise awareness" for something most people are aware of anyway

I have found my people.

Also winds me up that the people most likely to create these things or minion memes can't bloody spell half the time!

favourite and most inspiring' verses from the Bible

Well that would be a short list in my case. But what a twee, arse-kissing, faux-religious show-offy thing to do. Cringe, cringe, cringe.

I don't understand the point of them, I mean who starts them? And why?
What's the purpose?

Oh the share copied posts drive me bananas. I unfriend anyone who keeps posting them.

The line "I know which of you will care enough about kids dying of cancer/suffering dogs etc ...to share and which won't bother" gets right up my nose. If you know who will share and who won't ....don't send it to me. I don't show my concern for kids with cancer or whatever with a meaningless FB post , I'd rather do something useful like volunteer or donate a few quid.

OK I'm ranting so I'll shut up lol

This sort of thing is honestly one of my main criteria for selecting friends and acquaintances. If they're the sort to send such drivel, they're out. It's a failsafe bellwether, I've found.

I read somewhere that the 'copy paste' rather than 'share' request is used in posts originally sent out by scammers as people who use the copy paste instruction are more likely to fall for scams and they can see who has copy pasted. This may be as much rubbish as the posts themselves but I have seen some that are very insistent that you copy paste rather than share. Fortunately the 'friend' who posts this sort of twaddle has culled me from her friends list!

Yeah well sucks to the lot of you as I have liked and shared a post from Range Rover / Tiffanys / a holiday company / Apple and will probably win one of the free cars/necklaces/holidays/phones they are giving away on facebook as a result.

So ner.

Be sure to come back and let us know how that goes for you trevor

I normally unfriend people who post or send me this sort of drivel
An ex colleague once poisted something like " I'm going to Brazil for 20 days in march"
I posted that I thought she had used all her holiday allowance and I hadn't received her holiday request so I hoped she hadn't booked it
I knew it would be an "awareness" post but I just wanted to labour the point that its bloody stupid and pointless if people have no bloody idea of what and why you are posting
Some people are bloody hard work

I get these via FB and various other messaging media. The senders need to wake up. Seriously? I ignore them.

Those 'awareness' ones especially boil my innards. Like who's NOT aware of breast cancer? Wouldn't it be easier to find that person and put them in the stocks on the village green?

I read somewhere that the 'copy paste' rather than 'share' request is used in posts originally sent out by scammers as people who use the copy paste instruction are more likely to fall for scams and they can see who has copy pasted.

How does that work, then? Wouldn't the scammer be more likely to see if the share button had been clicked, than a new post started and copy pasted? Mind you, quite what the scams are for defeats me.

Showing my age now, but does anyone remember chain letters that asked you to send a picture postcard, or a 10 shilling (50p) postal order, to the person at the top of the list? Promising you umpty-thousand picture postcards or 10 shilling POs when your turn arrived.

The 'pass it on' statuses are the most pointless of all. There was one going around recently that just said 'It's confirmed... I'm going to be a mummy!' Why would you post that if you weren't pregnant? And why the hell would you want others to?

I can't stand them and YANBU. The particularly vacuous gf of a particularly vile ex of mine used to post these, but as if they were actually her own thoughts. She was into anything "spiritual", so lots of stuff about Angels, ghosts etc. Her favourite book was The Secret.

She posted a particularly nauseating status when she got engaged to vile ex all about soulmates and destiny. And ends most things with #blessed. The status was particularly funny when she found out less than a week after the engagement that he'd been, and still was, shagging two of her friends.

YABU coz when I get them I delete and break the chain.

Yanbu. I genuinely don't get this. Quite intelligent people do it as well.

Typing amen is my bugbear though. I think people do it because they feel it lets them off some sort of moral hook

But I suppose you said send so YABU.