July 18, 2009 — When I awoke this morning I wondered what I might blog about today. The answer was in an email I received from a dear old friend. I have fallen into a bad habit of forwarding email jokes, inspirational messages, political statements, and the like to various people in my address book. Now I like a good joke as well as the next person and there are a ton of them moving around the Internet as you well know. The same can be said for political statements and inspirational messages. It had been my policy in the past to not forward these particular emails to others...I should have stuck to that policy. Like if it ain't broke don't fix it.
My friend very politely told me, in a reply to a political email I had forwarded, that she did not appreciate receiving those and other negative emails (read do not send dirty jokes). Well first of all it was the right thing for her to do because I now know where she stands and will not offend her in the future. Secondly, it has reemphasized to me that it is best just to hit the Delete key when those hit my inbox.
Some inspirational emails I have received are truly that...inspirational. However, I fail to see the need to exclaim at the end of each of these that if you forward that email back and to "x" number of others your soul will be eternally saved or if you forward in the next 10 minutes an angel is going to appear and grant you some mystical wish. What balderdash that is!
Another friend of mine sent me 48 joke/inspirational emails to me in one day this past week. Not only is that bad etiquette, but it is just a plain waste of time. If that is all one can do with their computer then they need to take it back to the store and get their money back. If my friend does this again I will politely tell her to stop.
So, I am going back to my old policy of being judicious with what I forward. Offending someone is about the last thing I want to do and to do so with a friend is unacceptable. It's better to save political statements for the ballot box and I need all the friends I can get. It's what really matters!
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