Episode 14: Chain/Forwarded Emails

It grindz mi gearz when I receive emails from friends and family that are digital chain letters forwarded from everyone and their momma's uncle. Who started it?! As a matter of fact, let me go back and ask who started the paper chain letters that people randomly received in their mailbox?!

I'm annoyed because these stupid forwards flood my inbox like crazy creating false hope that someone is sending me something of importance to me. Then I have to read my subject lines and messages carefully to make sure it’s legitimately real and not a stupid forward. Don't get me wrong, I love to laugh and read interesting facts but it gets a bit redundant because the digital world is smaller than we think. It only takes one common friend to spread these forwards like a wildfire. Question now is who, has enough time to come up with these things?! GET A LIFE!!!

There are guilt-tripping forwards where they ask you to pass it on to raise money for a hella expensive surgery. I don't know how much I should believe this today because the Internet is EXTREMELY dangerous. During the time of AOL and dial-up (do people still use that?), the messages were more touchy because there was a certain trust with the company. AOL could put money towards someone in dire financial need. But I do absolutely DESPISE those religious forwards.

I'm a religious person, but I'm not as paranoid as I used to be from my roman catholic upbringing. I do enjoy the occasional bible lesson or joyous bible parody. I just hate what comes after at the bottom of every email. "If you don't send to at least 3 people in your address book you will be sent to hell." Okay, okay. So that may be a little bit drastic but telling people they'll have bad luck or that they won't be included in prayers have the same meaning. It was written to have people feel guilty and sinful--only works on a select gullible few.

To the authors of these forwarded emails, I will say I hate you for forever altering the way we electronically correspond. Oh yeah and thank you for somehow spilling into the cellphone route and sending forwarded text messages. Ugh that irks me too...wasting my text message limit to send me dumb-ass garbage! And thank you for making me take more time in checking my emails to make sure I don't accidentally delete a relevant forward or send someone the wrong message. This, folks, has been another episode of Grindz Mi Gearz.