Chain Emails and SMS
By: Zemog Xilef Sevet
This article is not meant for people who forward chain emails but to those who started it.
Sometimes we receive a forwarded email in our inbox that has a line “Pass this to everyone or else you will have bad luck”. Emails like this is what we called chain emails. This is also done in SMS.
Messages like this oftentimes have religious contents which will catch the attention of every reader and in a way “obey” to the sender by forwarding it to his/her friends.
Some people also like to start a chain merely because they think it’s harmless and its “cool” knowing how far your mail would go without knowing the real implications. Next time you hit the forward and send button please consider the following.
Technological Implication
Laymen may not know this but a bulk of unnecessary and redundant messages has great effect on the storage of emails. It will consume a large amount of space. It can also clog a network. Imagine a single person with 20 friends and each friend has 20 other friends, so on and so forth. Just imagine how many emails around the world will go to and fro the network. There are also instances wherein you can no longer receive emails because your inbox is full.
Social Implication
Contents of the chain email maybe amusing to some but not to others. Some people feel irritated, annoyed and harassed because of the implied threat contained in the email just like the example above. While some may just shrug it off, others can not.
What to do
I am not against the content of the email (unless it is negative) but the way we send the email. We should be responsible enough in sending it like getting only the part that you want to share and omit the line that will oblige the reader to send it to other people. Let them decide without any force. You may also tell the sender to be responsible enough in sending emails and ask not to do it again.
Using the words of God to do evil things
This doesn’t mean we are judging the writer of the chain email but the way things have been done sometimes suggest us to drive into conclusion that what he is up to is bad. Why would a person send a letter with a rebukable obligation that promises ill effects if you will not pass it? This is completely a reverse of what God wants us to do. Readers, you know what you are reading. Do not let fear or superstitions pollute your mind. Who among us has the right to cast bad luck to people? Unfortunately we can not read the mind of the composer. All we can do is draw a hypothetical conclusion about it.
This is an original article with reference to:
http://www.umich.edu/~policies/chain-mail.html
http://www.kith.org/logos/things/chain.html
This article is not meant for people who forward chain emails but to those who started it.
Sometimes we receive a forwarded email in our inbox that has a line “Pass this to everyone or else you will have bad luck”. Emails like this is what we called chain emails. This is also done in SMS.
Messages like this oftentimes have religious contents which will catch the attention of every reader and in a way “obey” to the sender by forwarding it to his/her friends.
Some people also like to start a chain merely because they think it’s harmless and its “cool” knowing how far your mail would go without knowing the real implications. Next time you hit the forward and send button please consider the following.
Technological Implication
Laymen may not know this but a bulk of unnecessary and redundant messages has great effect on the storage of emails. It will consume a large amount of space. It can also clog a network. Imagine a single person with 20 friends and each friend has 20 other friends, so on and so forth. Just imagine how many emails around the world will go to and fro the network. There are also instances wherein you can no longer receive emails because your inbox is full.
Social Implication
Contents of the chain email maybe amusing to some but not to others. Some people feel irritated, annoyed and harassed because of the implied threat contained in the email just like the example above. While some may just shrug it off, others can not.
What to do
I am not against the content of the email (unless it is negative) but the way we send the email. We should be responsible enough in sending it like getting only the part that you want to share and omit the line that will oblige the reader to send it to other people. Let them decide without any force. You may also tell the sender to be responsible enough in sending emails and ask not to do it again.
Using the words of God to do evil things
This doesn’t mean we are judging the writer of the chain email but the way things have been done sometimes suggest us to drive into conclusion that what he is up to is bad. Why would a person send a letter with a rebukable obligation that promises ill effects if you will not pass it? This is completely a reverse of what God wants us to do. Readers, you know what you are reading. Do not let fear or superstitions pollute your mind. Who among us has the right to cast bad luck to people? Unfortunately we can not read the mind of the composer. All we can do is draw a hypothetical conclusion about it.
This is an original article with reference to:
http://www.umich.edu/~policies/chain-mail.html
http://www.kith.org/logos/things/chain.html
posted by zemog at 12:29 PM
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