Cheap Chains

Versión en Español

Something I really hate is when people try to play with your emotions just to achieve some crappy goal (like get attention). Examples are the mail chains which now are evolving into facebook status chains. Today I found something like:

"If you know people with cancer post this in your status to show them HONOR for their FIGHT. I know 97% of my friends won't do it, but I know 3% will do it."

I'm also an attention whore, but that is really cheap emotional blackmail. People who create that kind of messages don't really care about the sick people. They just want to see how many people they can fool.

Just to be clear, I'm not angry about ALL kind of chains, sometimes they are important, I'm just angry with the ones that clearly try to manipulate you in the most despicable way.

So please, think twice before doing copy and paste, because you may obtain the opposite reaction from your friends. One option is to cut the crappy blackmail off the message if you really want to share it.