Am I mean?

[taff]

You're not mean, you're just not an idiot/wildly superstitious

[jackie j]

No not mean, I also never pass anything like that on and never did when it was of 'the letter in the post form'.

[Brengirl]

It is necessarily so that your 'friend' sent them. Recently I was getting loads of inappropriate and weird emails from my grandaughter. She was so embarrassed and reported that she had caught a virus that was using her address to send unsolicitated mail....creepy.

[zazen999]

I put a stop to this when my staff started including me on them [when I was 'management'] by suggesting that if anyone had time to a - read and b - forward on this type of rubbish - then come and see me and i'd find them something more intellectual and worthy of their attention to be getting on with....

I'm still friends with them on Faceache so I think they appreciated it in the end.

[Madasafish]

They get filed automatically as spam (Norton Internet Security).

I review my spam box once a week.. as my ISP also filters my mail for spam # before I get mail, not much rubbish gets in.

# A User setting in NTL now Virgin Media..

[Pumpkin Becki]

I don't tend to get those chain emails anymore thankfully, as I've lost touch with the one person who used to send them to me. However, I do get chain texts from someone else. Now, I don't get many text messages, so when one comes in, I get all excited...

'Who can it be?' I say to myself. Eagerly I press the button and up comes either a chain text about a rose made out of symbols that I'm supposed to pass on or I will never achieve anything in life, or its O2 telling me I'm not making the most of the extra benefits I'm entitled to.

Take a hint - I don't care!!!

[CaroltheCarrot]

I just delete them and never send any on,folk have eventually taken the hint.

Today I got a mail from the President of Nigeria telling me I had a windfall waiting for me but I need to send him$73,00 dollars first,think I will pass

[lizzylemon]

Oh Scarey I could kiss you I really could - feeling extremely blue and been in tears for most of the might but this gave me real laughs.

XXXXX

[scarey55]

Oh Scarey I could kiss you I really could - feeling extremely blue and been in tears for most of the might but this gave me real laughs.

XXXXX

Well come ere then: MMMMWWWWAAAA, there you go!!
Glad I made someone laugh, hope things are better for you today. xx

[womble]

I thought of as really weird and boring by my family because not only do I send them back and complain, I also spend 1 minute finding a link (proving it's crap) to the usual stupid urban myths I am sent by them. I mean FGS, it takes 10 secs on google to work out something is rubbish, less time than it takes to forward something to 10 people. Idiots.

Anyway a year or so of doing that and they stopped sending me them, then my OH started getting them from the family, she's still complaining, but they ignore her

[Flummery]

One person sends them to me - I never pass on or return them but today's was humourous and ended with the line -"If you do not pass this on to 5 more women your knicker elastic will snap and your pants will fall down!" Made me laugh - especially as I'm wearing my usual jeans, so you'd never noticed Knicker Elastic Collapse Syndrome!

Thinking about it- we used to call them Kecks - nearly an acronym.

Rambling a bit today aren't I?

[piskieinboots]

Rambling a bit today aren't I?

Rambling is good - it'll keep you away from the dusting

[di]

It's the mobile ones that get me...you're a wonderful Mum or great friend etc...then spend at least a pound of your credit texting the same message to ten friends...I'm sure that like me they'd prefer to hear from their kiddies that they're a great mum as opposed to some random chain text.

[piskieinboots]

I've never (yet) had the text ones! Maybe my friends are too careful with their money/credit

[Comfreyfan]

Never forward any of them, emails or texts - unless it's the spoof sort that make me laugh! Must admit I don't even read most of them.