how come squares always send me dumm forwards?

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i'm always getting these stupid women vs men jokes from my older sister and her husband. and i'm always getting christian bullshit from a friend i went to high school with.

― di, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and why don't they just write me a real e-mail? do you think they do this on purpose to annoy me?

― di, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no. and by sending a rude 'don't send me this stuff anymore!' you risk offending them and losing friends who just happen to be crap when it comes to email.

― michael, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably 'cos thats all they have to forward to you. Whereas I can annoy my distant friends and relations by sending them articles about John Zorn and they can ask pretty much the same question.

― Winkelmann, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a friend, C*** who does this. Really twee hallmark-style ones about 'look at the stars and think of your friends', 'forward this to ten women who make you happy in everyday life'. Another friend V*** actually compiled a top ten of the lamest forwards we had been sent.

― Anna, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thing is C**** is lovely. But I just don't need sugary sentimentalism at midday, especially if I'm eating lunch. She means well.

― Anna, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I get sent them fucking constantly by people in my class who I don't even know very well. They just send them to the class list without realising there are real people recieving them with a lack of enthusiasm that would make Ebenezer Scrooge seem like Andy Peters.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna, I'm surprised they're still your friends if you call them names like that. That second one (V****) is so rude I don't even know the word!

― Tim, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ironically Andi Peters was a well known Scrooge in his time at the BBC on Live & Kicking and would never do autographs or pose for a photo with a star struck young child.

― Pete, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

joke of the week.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna, my friend E**** (that's for T Hopkins to ponder) was exactly the same. Sadly, I had to cut her off completely to stop this email menace. (OK, I'm lying, but it was the last straw in a fast flagging friendship).

― Ellie, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like dumb forwards, they make me feel loved.

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

High school friends always send forwards. I got lots of annoying Christian ones, going to a Catholic school and all. They caused me to shut down two email address cos I couldn't be bothered waiting for everything to load. Now I make sure school friends never know my email so I don't get anymore FWD: FWD: OMG SO SO FUNNY's.

― Elisabeth, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why would real life friends have your email address? Seems v.odd.

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

huh? For forwarding lame-o jokes to of course!

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know sending an email to your mate seems no different from sending them an ordinary letter (you don't do that do you?). Surely you just phone or text or like, *see* them?

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a work thing Graham. You email back and forth to make the working day a little less horrible.

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I generally email mates to show them something I've seen/done online or if I want them to be online when they get the particular message.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://home.graffiti.net/buglebear/square.gif

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...you risk offending them and losing friends who just happen to be crap when it comes to email

I think any friends who are this crap at emails may not be worth having anyway, but I don't expect I really believe that. Still, maybe I do - I never get sent these things except at work by one man, and he is a bit pitiful so I am kind to him and don't abuse him for the stupid fucking forwards. This is very different from friendship, obv.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know sending an email to your mate seems no different from sending them an ordinary letter (you don't do that do you?). Surely you just phone or text or like, *see* them?

my sister lives in australia. my christian friend lives in wellington.

― di, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not worth falling out with someone over, just delete them as they arrive, simple as that.

― Saskia, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think any friends who are this crap at emails may not be worth having anyway

YES. well, this depends on the kind of friend. If it's someone you really like as a person and a friend, maybe a wee word to them to reduce the volume of their mass-Fwds would be better than throwing in the friendship's towel. But schoolfriends/old workmates/other 'friends of circumstance' are not always worth the amount of attatchment- folder-cluttering they cause. I know, i got send a dozen cutesy angel pics yesterday from one such friend-or-aquaintance whom i all but actively avoid IRL. angels! cutesy! dire indeed. these people need yr guidance, not teeth-gritted acceptance.

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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