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I HATE email (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 2 days ago by weird@sub.wetshaving.social to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Send this to 10 other people or YOU'LL DIE"

And a lot of "I'm not superstitious BUT..." LOL

I almost miss how stupidly innocent the internet felt with that nutty stuff back then. Most chain letters were merely annoying social experiments rather than ultra nefarious like social media has become.

(Edit: lol just noticed a very similar take a few posts above me.)

"Flashing headlights at cars is a gang initiation to help them pick who to murder! Pass this along because it's better safe than sorry!"

"Opening the wrong email might give you the Life is Beautiful virus that says 'your life is no longer beautiful' and wipes your hard drive! Tell everyone you know!"

(Ah, when an erased hard drive was the scariest malware one could think of...)

"Snd ths 2 15 ppl and push Alt+F4 and teh naem of ur crush will appear. (Zomgwtfbbq it rly works!!)"

"I'm a missionary in South Afrimericasia and I wanted to send this prayer chain around the entire world to prove something wholesome and also send money plz lol. Look, Sarah passed it on and her life turned around! The divine holy power of email!"

I had to spend a lot of time directing people I knew to a now-defunct site called "BreakTheChain" , and also Snopes. Usually the same people. Every time.

And sometimes they'd tell me "Well I forward it to you because you can tell me if it's true or not." I don't miss that. Lmao

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

OMG I had forgotten the prayer chains from southwhatever missionaries 🤣 🤣 🤣