This week I received the same email forward twice warning me that some tampon manufacturers are putting asbestos in their products so that women will bleed more and, therefore, use more tampons. Come on people! Learn to check out these ridiculous things before you pass them on. Where did we get the idea that just because information comes in an email its automatically true? It bugs me so much when people believe these things. It bugs me even more when they pass them on. And it’s exactly these people who are soooo paranoid about getting a virus on their computer yet they don’t realize that they are willingly participating in spreading an email virus. It’s like that email forward that talks about the “Amish Virus”. It says something about how you have to delete everything from your hard drive manually because the Amish don’t believe in technology. People laugh at that forward but that’s exactly what these email viruses are. People shut off their brains and mindlessly spread whatever garbage is delivered to their inbox. Stop the madness! This is one virus that is easily put to rest.
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October 18th, 2005 at 9:49 am
When people send me these - especially the ones about computer viruses - I find a page that disproves the email and send it to everyone on their cc list. (That is for NOT using BCC) Which of course makes me a spammer too - or just the reality check girl.
However, if I ever receive this awesome tampon news I will indeed forward it to you.
Do you know how many people want to send me money to hold in my bank account? All I have to do is give them my account information and they will transfer BILLIONS of dollaz into my account, which is dumbass for “they will steal all my money”.
October 18th, 2005 at 10:11 am
I’m shocked at you! Only thinking about making billions of dollars when you could be passing on those emails which would cause Microsoft to donate millions of dollars to save a poor little kid from some fatal disease. How selfish!