I have an issue. I can understand the need to send chain emails on to your friends. You read something you just got from a friend on whatever random topic and ya want to share it with someone else. I can get that. I don't mind that. I have two requests.
First if it is something that is a "warning" or "facts" about our government, our society or a threat internal or external please please please take the time to research it. You would be amazed at the unnecessary (insert bad emotion here) mongering going on via chain email. I get enough of that via the tv, radio and internet. If it is absolutely true and can be verified by multiple fact checking sites great send it on. A couple of sites I use are Snopes, Factcheck.org and politifact.org. I will also just google the general topic of the email to find more info. You increase your own credability with the people you forward things to if you include your own investigations links with the email you are forwarding.
Second. You see that BCC line in your email headers? USE IT!!! Clean out the trailers of who forwarded to who and then forwarded to whoelse. We don't need these peeps email addresses or their names. If we don't know them we don't need contact information. In the TO line put your own email address. Ignore the CC line entirely. Skip down to the BCC line (Blind Carbon Copy) This allows you to send emails to a list of friends without everyone in that list learning email addresses they don't need to be learning. I have friends who don't know, don't want to know and/or can't stand each other. I would be doing some of these oh so shy friends a disservice when after all their efforts to keep their information private I go and blab their name and/or email addy to all my friends who may have links to other friends who have links to other friends who may use that information without permission or maliciously.
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