Angela Natividad's Live & Uncensored!

08 July 2008

Chain Letters: Social Media by Early Man

Today I got a chain letter from someone I haven't spoken to in years. It was so deliciously retro.

It also presented an opportunity to explore how, with high-speed convenience, we started replacing face time with dancing GIFs, colorful platitudes and cause-related CTAs.

This particular email did a spam-tacular job of demonstrating: 1) my childhood chum continues to think highly of me, and 2) she has an earnest, deeply meaningful desire to save people from cancer. All that, and we didn't even have to dodder about the weather!

Subject line: "Pink Ant."




Hello, Pretty Lady!

You have been hit.
You have been considered one of the 10 prettiest ladies with a kind, warm and loving heart. Once you have been hit, you have to hit 10 pretty ladies with kind, warm and loving hearts. If you get hit again you know you're really pretty and kind. If you fail to forward this, you'll have ugliness for 10 years. So hit 10 pretty ladies to let them know they are pretty -- both on the
inside and the outside - and that they are loved and cared for.

SEND THIS TO PRETTY LADIES, TO BRIGHTEN THEIR DAY, INCLUDING THE ONE WHO SENT IT TO YOU! REMIND LADIES TO BE INFORMED, AWARE AND BE CHECKED FOR THEIR HEALTH'S SAKE. TELL THEM THAT NO ONE WANTS TO LOSE THEM -
All you are asked to do is keep this circulating (even if to one person).



In memory of anyone you know that has been struck by cancer.


That rhinestone effect really gives it somethin' extra.

1 comment:

Jimmy Little said...

So, are you going to be ugly for the next ten years, then? That blingy pink ribbon's might tempting...