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Chain messages on Facebook

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user1477282676 · 20/12/2016 12:22

What do you do when someone you really like sends you one of those awful Chain type messages on FB? And it says something like

"I am sending this to a woman I admire and love...to a woman with great spirit and tenancity and who cares for all she meets...I know she will send this on to 10 more women who she cares about (and I'd better be one of them!)

It's such emotional blackmail!

I have some proffesional contacts on FB and the vast majority of my mates would think I'd lost the plot if I forwarded such tripe to them!

I only have a very select bunch on my FB so I can't send it forward without looking like a bit of a tit and anyway it's just not my style!

WHat I did do was reply saying "How sweet! Thank you...I've sent this on!"

So I lied! ANd she'll know I lied because she won't receive hers back!

I just don't want to offend or hurt her as she's a really kind and sweet person!

OP posts:
Fluffyears · 20/12/2016 12:45

Ffs autocorrect

Reality16 · 20/12/2016 12:47

God I don't do anything, I certainly wouldn't lie and say I had passed it on.

Wookiecookies · 20/12/2016 12:47

I have a fb friend whi I have unfollowed for exactly this bs. She does it constantly, its unbearable! And she always adds me to those stupid groups that do this "right girls, lets wind the men up, answer this question and post one word as your status! tinkly laugh!"

No. fuck off.

DrinkReprehensibly · 20/12/2016 12:47

Without fail, I just ignore those things. Sometimes I'll reply with a comment but I never ever repost them.

If you need to give an excuse, just say you didn't have time to go through the bother of reposting it.

MrFMercury · 20/12/2016 12:49

Urgh. I have family who sent this crap and then a friend who rarely actually talks to me but send these with increasingly regularity. I feel a bit guilty ignoring them but then also make me cross. I haven't responded to 20 of them now, they're all sat there one after the other with no response. TAKE THE BLOODY HINT!

KayTee87 · 20/12/2016 12:51

I ignore them - wouldn't actually want to be friends with people that send these stupid things on. I'm horrible though Grin

Wookiecookies · 20/12/2016 12:52

Does anyone know what this llama profile pic shite doing the rounds is? Keep seeing that and get the feeling its another one of these 'oh so hilarious' fb chain message things.

TheGruffaloMother · 20/12/2016 12:52

I ignore it. I don't care if they see that I've read it. A friend did once asked why I had untagged myself from one of the photo ones and I told her because it was all bollocks and everyone was aware of the disease she said she was raising awareness of.

I can get behind them if they (demonstrably) raise money for a charity or are genuinely raising awareness of a little-known illness. But other than that I have zero patience for it.

Wookiecookies · 20/12/2016 12:54

Oh, its ok, I was right. Just checked the page of the person I unfollowed! Grin

Shite confirmed!

seven201 · 20/12/2016 13:16

I ignore and do a sick in my mouth when I read them

LunaLoveg00d · 20/12/2016 13:21

Just ignore. Luckily I have no FB friends who post that kind of crap but do have a few who are fond of the ridiculous "awareness" posts along the lines of "I'm moving to Las Vegas in April" and when people comment they get an inane "you fell for it" message telling them to post likewise. Err, no.

Itsseweasy · 20/12/2016 13:21

I ignore them and hope my friends will get the message if they consider sending them to me in future!

CaoNiMerrilyOnHigh · 20/12/2016 13:23

IMHO there are two broad types of people in the world:

  1. people who forward chain messages
  2. people who don't forward chain messages

The first group are dead to me.

Muppetslikecoco · 20/12/2016 13:26

My MIL does this and our relationship is strained anyway. I have always ignored them before I'm really trying to make an effort so I sent one back to only her the other day. It's like I've opened the floodgates Shock

Excited101 · 20/12/2016 13:26

I ignore them too- hope they'll get the message

Chocoholicmonster · 20/12/2016 13:33

I always ignore them.

Wookiecookeis to answer your question.. There's a riddle going round, you inbox said person with whatever you think the answer to the riddle is, if you get it wrong you have to put a llama on your profile picture. So yes, another FB BS chain shite but "disguised as a riddle".

harderandharder2breathe · 20/12/2016 13:34

Just ignore

GrimDamnFanjo · 20/12/2016 13:38

" I know who'll share" fuck off

CockacidalManiac · 20/12/2016 13:40

I'll sometimes ignore them, sometimes challenge them. I'll always judge someone who sends them, however.

Feckitall · 20/12/2016 13:41

I ignore but it drives me potty and I struggle to resist the urge to tell them they are idiots...and they usually sent by people who have social skills in person of Vlad the impaler!

CockacidalManiac · 20/12/2016 13:42

It's always the same fuckers who do it, too. No doubt they think they're proper wacky.

Wookiecookies · 20/12/2016 13:46

Do you reckon there is some sort of secret underworld organisation that targets gullible twats by coming up with this crap? Is it some kind of secret brainwashing by the gubberment? Do I need my tin foil hat? ConfusedGrin

Wookiecookies · 20/12/2016 13:47

Maybe its a darwinian experiment...Grin

debbs77 · 20/12/2016 13:50

Ignore OR just send it back to them to make it look like you sent it on x

kissmethere · 20/12/2016 14:10

I've had these. My friend told me off for doing it wrong so I don't bother. I pretend I have every intention and never get round to it. She's very sensitive...