I hate them as well. I just delete.

I hate them. Please send this email to all your friends.

If I get a funny/cute text I forward them because you know…..keep `em going! But then again I`m just a texting teenager sigh anyways if their stupid and pointless I delete them pronto.

I like chain mail, but chain emails are the bane of the Intrawebs.

I only get those from two people. One I excuse because she is very, very old and I’m just happy she knows how to use the internet! The other I’ve given a pass because I just haven’t been arsed enough to tell her to knock it off.

The delete key is my friend.

Oh yeah.. I forward them… to the trash.

Oh my god. My mother-in-law is awful about sending them. i don’t know why she does it..I regret the day I ever gave her my email, because I knew she sent them to my husband but I thought I might escape those incessant emails. I never even read them.

i always delete them, i ahte those that push you intoa profession you dont like to tell you to adopt a child when you dont have to

It can be dangerous because all it takes is one tech-savvy evil-minded genius to manipulate the “chained” email addresses. Remember, chain-mail carries information on your friends and somebody’s child, etc. It is wise to leave alone pointless mass email/letters.

Other reasons

Facebook booted me because I was appealing to individuals and not groups. I was genuine and Facebook did not like that. Question: Are Facebook bulk invites/messages becoming the equivalent to email spam? I am not doing this, but facebook is set up to work this way, me thinks.

They are definitely annoying and I will not forward them to anyone for any reason. My computer at home filters spam relatively well so I don’t get very many of these.

I work on a military base and the communications squadron pays close attention to what happens on our network and within our individual workcenters so chain emails are virtually non-existent in my workplace.

I loathe them. I used to take the time to check Snopes and let the sender know if they were forwarding lies, but I don’t even do that anymore. I don’t mind if a friend sends me something that they know I’ll be amused by, but other than that it’s D. LETE.

I hate having to scroll through tons of lists of people’s entire address books. That’s just obnoxious. But I don’t always mind the messages themselves. If I get something that includes a cute picture or a joke or some interesting info, I’ll copy and paste the relevant part into a new email and send it to people I think might appreciate it. (Dear gramma and sister; I love you dearly, but stop sending me your Jesus emails. You should know better.)

I won’t have anything to do with them. When I get them, I sometimes ask the senders very politely not to send me any more; in any case I dump them.

The same goes for Internet humor. I do not want to receive forwards of funny pet photos, jokes, or ‘You know you’re a <whatever> if…’ lists any more than I want to receive faith-inspiring religious homilies or sentimental reminders to treasure my loved ones. All of those things, all of them, are junk mail.

If you find yourself tempted to click ‘Forward’ and add “Thought you’d enjoy this,” don’t send it to me.

junk junk junk, oh yeah, JUNK!

I have gotten to the point that I tell my friends to stop sending them, if they do it two more times after that I block their email and we converse solely through the phone.

:::sends asmonet fifty million chain mails, just to be mean:::

I will open your stomach. The unpleasant way.

There’s a pleasant way?

Exactly. If there’s a pleasant way, imagine what the unpleasant way would be like.

>;)