Chain Mail

Ever wondered why people post chain mail? You know, those things that you have to repost (if you’re on MySpace for example) or those emails you have to send to like, 40 other people? Well, this blog is about it. As you can see, I have plenty of time on my hands. For those who don’t know what chain mail is, or have possibly heard another term for it, chain mail is when;

- You are on MySpace, and someone posts a bulletin, and somewhere in that bulletin, usually at the start or near the end, it will say something really retarded like, “rEpOsT oR yOuR mOm WiLl DiE aT 11:59!!!!111″

- You are reading through your email messages, and something like, “Send this to 10 other people, otherwise a clown will appear in your closet and kill you”

Those are the only two ways, I know, chain mail is spread. Why do people do it? For the fun? To scare the crap out of other people? I believe there was one chain mail where its purpose was to hack another MySpace account; mine.

I can’t remember exactly how. All I remember was that I was supposed to click “Reply” so I could copy the codes (script, HTML, that fancy stuff) and repost it in a bulletin. When I posted the bulletin, my account was suddenly posting weird comments and weird bulletins. I had one of my friends comment me back saying, “Dude, why are you trying to sell me weed?” Then I go, “What?” She tells me that I sent her a comment with a link to a sight where they were selling “bud”, from like, Hawaii or something (why couldn’t have been simple, like the Canadian stuff?). Well, I told her I did no such thing. Then, I checked her profile for my supposed comment, and I saw. It had a nice picture of weed, and a nice commentary about how I have so much of it, and that I was more than willing to sell it to make money. There was even a link to the site; which I did not visit.

Thinking off the top of my head, “I must have been hacked.” Then, I backtrack my day, remembering everything I’ve done. And then, I remembered posting a bulletin that asked me to copy codes… sound familiar? I changed my password, and the comments stopped. And, I didn’t notice it until later, but I was also posting weird bulletins; yes, with weed in them. I erased the bulletins, and told everybody, “Hey, it’s Jeremy, don’t worry about those weird bulletins and comments, I was just hacked. That’s all.”

So, why do people post chain mail? Some, for the fun. Like those ones that tell fake stories like, “This clown kills people who talk on their cell phones at night,” or whatever the kids are saying these days. Some, to hack others, and market their websites using a method known as “phishing”. Man, what are people doing with their lives?

Ok, so chain mailers! If you’re gonna do it, or if you are going to repost or send it to others, make sure you’re not hacking or phishing, or trying to market your websites. Come on, there’s other ways to market your websites (I dunno, maybe, tell random people about it?). I haven’t reposted any chain mails because clearly, it is a waste of time. I don’t know why anyone’d waste their time reading and reposting/sending these things, anyway. Bottom line; chain mail is a waste of time.

P.S. On MySpace, there are little things called “surveys” or “questionnaires”; the ones that ask a bunch of questions, and people always out like, “uhh idk” for like half their answers. Those do not count as chain mail.

And, this is how Lime Cat feels about chain mail.

~ by Jeremy on August 28, 2008.