I’m a reasonable man. I’d like to say I’m even, at times, magnanimous. My patience, however, has worn a little thin with a select few friends and family members who stubbornly persist in littering my in box with inane email forwards. In the days when the internet was new and novel it was understandable. We were young and hopeful then, with the light of this brave new world agleam in our eyes (sigh). If Bill Gates sent us a message saying he was going to share his fortune with us, who were we to deny him? By now, though, we should all be older and wiser. As for the culprits who persevere in their gullibility, details of internet etiquette have no doubt reached them by now. One might hope this knowledge would curb such compulsion to spam those near and dear, regardless of whether or not they are taken in themselves.
So let me make this abundantly clear. Nobody wants your amusing anecdotes, pictures of nauseatingly cute animals, political diatribe, or inspirational quote de jour. I don’t care if the president is a direct descendant of Lucifer and snopes.com verified it, or you think the latest YouTube clip of some poor fellow getting smacked in the head with a baseball bat by his 3 year old son is the most hysterical thing since the chimp smelling his finger. Just save the bandwidth and a few seconds of both our time and click “delete”.
P.S. Send this link to 10 of your closest friends or you will have bad luck for 10 years.