Comments on: Why People Forward Chain Letters

By: nettycairns

nettycairns — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:21 +0000

Interesting blog, well researched. It's fascinating to read about the reasons why people forward these emails.

By: nettycairns

nettycairns — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:01:21 +0000

Interesting blog, well researched. It's fascinating to read about the reasons why people forward these emails.

By: b0bbilly

b0bbilly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:08:57 +0000

Welll, i'm a very
smart good-looking person &
i think this is all STOOPID .
i don't get any of it, and i get all A's !

By: kaplangdesign

kaplangdesign — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:10:58 +0000

really interesting post

By: Redbrick Stock

Redbrick Stock — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:49:54 +0000

I think in some cultures the play on superstition works very well. I must admit sometimes I have a lingering doubt when I delete such spam.

By: ZippyGirljw

ZippyGirljw — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:25:35 +0000

Why do we need to know this? email forwards are cool!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:40:20 +0000

Please Fwd to 8 friends or you LOL just a little humor, I know (very little) I always thought someone made money off of these things ?

By: DJ MASACRE

DJ MASACRE — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:45:28 +0000

the reason there IS spam, is because you people are too stupid or don’t care about the world, or how to use the Internet.

We see this mostly in our communication, which most often seems to elude us because of this “false anonymity” many share behind a computer.

Chain Letters should never be spread anywhere by anyone. It does NOT belong anywhere, certainly the Internet !

All this does is fill up the Internet with more of your junk !

Stop this NOW !

By: Blogshot

Blogshot — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:46:30 +0000

Yes, if people had to pay a few micro-censt for e-mail, I’m sure spam would be reduced dramatically. Apparently there is less than a handful of people who cause over 90% of the spam.

By: Holland Blinds

Holland Blinds — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:49:18 +0000

I really wish e-mail wasn’t free. Even if it cost just .1 cents per e-mail, I believe there would be a lot less spam and useless e-mails.

Thanks for the interesting post.

By: C

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:32:27 +0000

I hate chain letters…. if you hate them don’t read any farther… for some reason at 27 yrs old I still feel compelled to do what it says

when you are reading this don’t stop or something bad will happen My name is summer i am 15 years old i have blond hair many scars no nose or ears i am dead if you don’t copy this just like from the ring on 5 more sites.. or.. i will apear one dark quiet night when your not expecting by your bed with a knife and kill you. this is no joke something good with happen if you post this on 5 more sites something good will happen

By: Wedding Celebrant Redcliffe

Wedding Celebrant Redcliffe — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:04:37 +0000

A very interesting post. There’s some ideas in the recent book “Make it Stick” that goes some way to explaining the urban legend phenonomenum.

I find the most annoying e-mail chains are the ones that offer good luck if you pass them on, or bad luck if you don’t.

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By: Chris Bergeron

Chris Bergeron — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:55:56 +0000

Hah, the whole lemmings thing still kills me. That people would see the little furry guys and think “yep, they’re little suicidal rodents” when they’ve got no personal examples of rodents randomly diving off high precipice…

I’m left wondering if the rapid fire e-mail will have the same lasting effect as, say, Disney’s lemming killing meme though.

By: Dan Zarrella

Dan Zarrella — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:11:38 +0000

yeah, i know someone who says “email isn’t viral, blogs are” and i constantly have to correct them by pointing out that when you’re talking about the web, email is the original viral content.

By: Brett Borders

Brett Borders — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:04:22 +0000

Cool, well-researched article. I have always realized that the chain letters are the original “viral content” on the Web, but you did a great job exploring why they move.

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:15:34 +0000

Sounds like HiveThink! Good way to stat a Revolution.

By: Dan Zarrella

Dan Zarrella — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:05:18 +0000

yeah, a lot of the research that has gone into chain letters online deals with innoculization emails, some of which are pretty funny.