Forwards. Everyone hates them. The new statement is "I don't usually forward, but this is particularly [insert adjective]." The thing that I hate most is when people I haven't talked to or seen in years suddenly send me a forward. The bright side, I guess, that I am still in their address book. On the other hand, one friend sends about four a day. I have this image of her checking her email and sending all the forwards to everyone in her address book without even reading them herself. She recently got a Blackberry. I guess she wanted to send her forwards from the road. Actually, she's not annoying to me, I have everything from her starting in "Fwd" or "Forward" filtered directly to my junk mail. The problem is, occasionally a pertinent email gets into my junk by accident.
"Didn't you get my email about the birthday party?"
Um... "Oh, yeah, sorry it took me so long to respond, I've been so busy." Almost everything you send me goes to my junk mail to save my time to read the important stuff.
If I have time, I can be a very annoying receiver of forwards about missing children, asbestos in tampons, or golfers eaten by crocodiles. I check Snopes to prove them wrong and "Respond to All". Hee hee.
Anyway, for a blogger, herein lies the rub: I discovered a fellow mom-blogger through a forwarded email. Granted, it wasn't random, my friend Melanie said "You should see this thing going around the internet, it's hilarious." It was hilarious, this blogger is extremely talented, I read her blog every day, and I am proud to say she actually reads mine occasionally.
So, with the ingenerate dilemma of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book, I ask that if you particularly enjoy one of my stories, forward it along, but please ask permission. And please give it the respect that Melanie gave to my fellow blogger. What's the point if it goes directly into someone's junk mail?
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4 comments:
I too am a checker of Snopes and a foiler of forwards! Perhaps we should start a club...
Yea there are just some people sometimes that send way too much and I usually miss it too because I don't read it.. AKA my mother-in-law. She sends so much useless stuff that I just don't really read anything any more
I'm not a fan of forwards either - and you described all the different types very well. LOL.
I sometimes check Snopes and E-mail the person back, but I don't send it to all. Public humiliation. Excellent tactic ;) That may cut back on future forwards, I would say.
Once in awhile I like to share things I find around the web with certain individuals, and I always give the URL where I found it - good manners, that is :)
I had actually never heard of "Steal This Book" - which is strange, because I worked at a book store. Can't believe I never came across it. I'm going to have to look for that one. I have too much curiosity for my own good.
Tee - Even if you worked at a bookstore you may have never seen it because they have to keep in behind locked doors, I'm not kidding. it also may be out of print.
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