Remember when sending email forwards was totally in vogue and not at all annoying? It was about, oh, 1999 or so, and you and your friends would send each other chain letter forwards, quizzes about yourself that you filled out, inspirational poems about girlfriends and sisters, warnings to each other about deodorant causing cancer, and how to save a kid dying of a life-threatening disease you've never heard of.
Maybe it was the advent of social networking sites, but somehow, people stopped sending forwards. And I stopped getting annoyed every time I checked my inbox.
However, some people haven't really gotten that memo — and I'm sorry, but Mom, I totally have to call you out — and if you're afraid to tell them straightforwardly, the website StopForwarding.us will send an anonymous message on your behalf with a gentle but firmly-worded cease-and-desist email. Really, you're doing all of their email contacts a favor.
And as for you, Mom — well, you can keep on doing it. I like seeing your name in my inbox, even if it does mean getting a forward.
Jimmy Choo
Together
Isabella Oliver
haha I should send this to all my grandparents. They're the only ones who send me forwards now.
1Nice! I just used this on my aunt who sends out 4-6 fwds a day.
2Oh, but forwards have followed us to myspace as well. It eats up the bulletin board when someone gets a hold of the "if you love Jesus, you'll pass this on". I think he has more important things to do than read myspace bulletins.
3I think it's brilliant!
4omg, I need this like you have no idea! All i ever get from my family are crap forwards!
5What a great idea!
6I need to send this to people at work. I hate to get chain e-mails the most!!!
7Ha! I was going to say I only get forwards from my mom.
8I am totally sending this post to my mom. Not because she still sends forwards (she is too hip for that) but because all her friends still do.
9Not only does my father in law send forwards... he sends the same ones multiple times a year!
10I hate to hurt people's feelings, so I just have a filter set up in gmail to send all emails starting with "FW" "FWD" or variations thereof that are originating from my mother-in-law and two former coworkers of mine.... straight to the trash.
If I didn't do this, I think
they would crash my computer every time I opened the inbox.
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