Think Before You Forward
April 23rd, 2007I’ve removed and ignored quite a number of people on my messenger lists (yes, I use more than one messenger client). The reason is very simple: I hate getting forwarded messages. If it announcements, like say, this club is having some food fest, or this faculty is giving out freebies or some guy needing plateletes, it’s alright. As long as they are credible news and of direct benefit, I don’t mind it at all.
But messages that ask me to pray for you, ask me to send this smile to everyone in my messenger list, pointless rhymes of friendship and love going around in daisy chains, threatening that I’d lose a friend if I break the chain… messages that are being passed around just for the sake of being passed on, those annoy living daylights out of me.
From the number of email chains, messenger chains and friendster bullshit chains I’ve broken, I’m supposed to be in the seventh circle of hell battling a Baelrog armed only with chopsticks and multi-lingual profanity, by now.
However, that’s just the icing on the cake.
Many of these gormless message-forwarding zombies actually think quite highly of themselves, sounding all pious and benevolent. Too bad piety and benevolence doesn’t come pre-packaged with a brain. So here’s something for all you dumbfucks to digest on before you blindly right-click that contact list.
“O you who believe! When a wicked person comes to you with some news, ascertain and verify it, lest you harm someone in ignorance and then afterwards regret for what you have done.”
(al-Hujuraat 49:6)
I’m far from being a pious guy, but my religion is one that encourages the use of my brain. As a brother, I would very much hate to see my brethren suffer from the lack of mental capacity due to the under-utilization of the squishy organ hidden deep behind their thick skulls.
Therefore, before you even think of forwarding anymore of those pointless, humorless messages, think it through, and save us all the trouble of scolding the shit out of you.
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YES! YOU SAID IT!
I once pointed out to one of my contacts, why did he forward all the nonsense without first verifying its integrity. And I get:
“Fuck off! I am just doing my part in spreading information. If you don’t like it then DON’T READ IT”
Wow. Stupid, yet arrogant. Oh well.. OFF TO THE WELL (err, i mean, ignore list) you go!
LOL. I’m lucky I don’t get those.
(Unless you count those random “Let’s have sex” spam messages I got before) ^_^
Normally what I do is, I inquire those mindless peeps regarding the details of what they have forwarded.
The trick is to make themselves think of what they are forwarding. And when you ask, you make them think. And most of the time, they don’t know the answer to it. They will say something like “I don’t know, it’s not me who made the message.” or the likes of it. They can’t be angry at a person who’s being polite and ask in full courtesy, and sucks to be them at that time. :)
So in the end because of that, no one wants to forward that kind of crap to me anymore (apart from a couple of juniors who are still new to the ‘practice’ and abusing it). Though it makes my life a little lonely, ya know.
damn those frensters msgs….farking flooding my inbox. NOOBS!
usually i’m the sink when it comes to chain letters. i pass them down to the drain
Kita…tekan delete saja. Scold through IM doesn’t work. A Spartan kick to the well, in other hand, always work. Terus tak jadi kawan dunia dan akhirat. Berkesan! *thumbs up*
Silencers: Bunyik macam iklan sabun Breeze daa.. *thumbs up*
all these forwarded messages only come from mmu people!!!!!!!!!!! grr
Silencers: I have more MMU ppl in my list than you do. Can you feel my pain? Although I removed most of the zombies already, I’m almost practically pain-free, now :D