Chain guilt
Dec. 14th, 2005 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teleribMy dad loves to send Internet forwards. He's my dad; I love him anyway. ;)
I really take exception to the "new" (and by "new," I mean "going on for at least 2-3 years now) trend in the "inspirational chain letter" front. The format of these goes like:
<Touching message ranging from sweet to saccharine>
<Note telling you that this message comes from a friend who wuvs you very very much>
<Exhortation to send the message on to friends of your own>
<Implication that you are emotionally impoverished/a bad friend/selfish of your own time if you fail to do this>
I don't mind the cutesy messages, especially if it's from Daddy. It's the last bit that really irritates me. (And for which I don't really blame my father, who - if he thought about it - would probably delete that part.) What, did enough people give up thinking that "if you fail to send this on, you will have bad luck for seven years, seven months, seven days, seven hours and seven minutes" so now the writers have to resort to guilt trips? Gr.
I really take exception to the "new" (and by "new," I mean "going on for at least 2-3 years now) trend in the "inspirational chain letter" front. The format of these goes like:
<Touching message ranging from sweet to saccharine>
<Note telling you that this message comes from a friend who wuvs you very very much>
<Exhortation to send the message on to friends of your own>
<Implication that you are emotionally impoverished/a bad friend/selfish of your own time if you fail to do this>
I don't mind the cutesy messages, especially if it's from Daddy. It's the last bit that really irritates me. (And for which I don't really blame my father, who - if he thought about it - would probably delete that part.) What, did enough people give up thinking that "if you fail to send this on, you will have bad luck for seven years, seven months, seven days, seven hours and seven minutes" so now the writers have to resort to guilt trips? Gr.
