This is not the first time I am writing about this. Perhaps not even the 2nd time, I can’t remember. But recently, chain messages and bulletins spread in Friendster again. As usual, most of these chain messages require you to forward to your friends within x minutes, otherwise, some bad luck is said to happen, and these include claims that “you will get murdered” and in some distasteful ones, it even claims that “your mom will die in x hours”.

Come on, I have ignored and deleted all these useless messages but nothing happened, alright? Why not we all play our role and ignore all these messages? By ignoring them, nothing will happen to you or your family, ok? And best of all, we get to save Internet resources for more useful transmission of data. And also save the computing resources of Friendster web servers and database servers which have been overloaded and work slowly at times.

To those who always forward them and so gullible to believe the contents of these chain messages, don’t you think it is distasteful to claim that the recipient or the recipient’s mom will die if one does not forward the message? Think again.