Thursday, September 2, 2010

Michael Scott May be the King of the Email Forward...


...but I am the Queen of the email forward etiquette.   Well, self-professed Queen.  OK, what this really is is a list of pet peeves.

I love getting jokes, funny pictures and the touching stories that make me sob like a freaking baby.  I even forward the really good ones on to others.  What I’m tired of is wading through mountains of text until I get to the story/joke/list of things from when we were younger than rocks, etc.  Please see the suggested guidelines listed below:

  1. Clean up the subject line.  If I see the “FW:”, I will automatically click delete.
  2. Remove the prior senders’ information and comments.  I don’t need to know what Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice have to say about the joke/story/tale of woe/bad luck chain letter.  I don’t know them
  3. Speaking of Bad Luck Chain Letters; knock it off!
  4. Finally, regarding the emails that claim if you “send this email to 10 people, watch hat happens!  It’s awesome!  Blew my mind!”  So, what will happen?  Nothing.  Nothing will happen.  Well, I suppose something will have happened.  You will have wasted 10 minutes of your time.  And mine.  And Bob’s & Carol’s & Ted’s & Alice’s.  
Snark out!

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