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I had a couple of emails recently from bloggers who I like and respect ‘tagging’ me in some kind of blogging chain mail thingy. If you want to know something new about me, it’s that I really object to chain letters. With a passion that can’t be healthy. I wrote about chain emails early on in my blogging career. So I’m not going to pass this on. I hope there’s no gypsy curse for chain-breakers on this one.
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Congratulations, you had the courage to stand up and say “no” to those vicious chain mail memes flying around the blogosphere! Way to go, Matt, you’re my hero.
I just hope you don’t grow a third arm or something…
Really, it’s like those “100 things about me” posts you see a lot of to mark the first 100 days or first 100 posts to their blog. Good gosh, I’m a total stranger – why should I care? When I hit my 100th post, I just said “no” to that, too. (Sorry about the gratuitous self-promotion; my cat made me do it.)
It brings to mind John Koetsier’s post today on a recent study that seems to illustrate how so many people are sharing astoundingly inappropriate information on the internet – and eveyone’s OK with it! Amazing.
Mea maxima culpa, Matt! I read that post of yours and it slipped my mind. I loathe chain mail, too, but this one caught me at an indulgent moment.
I’m with Nancy – I’d never usually take part, but this one got me going. Probably the one time in my life…
On the good sid, if it weren’t for this, I might not have stopped over here and caught your great web 2.0 apps you use every day (mines similar).
AMEN! I refuse even to read any blog entry that’s posted to participate in the “100 things about me” or any other chain letter garbage – by whatever name it’s called. Thank you, Matthew, for your stance on this.
Matt, as one of the bloggers who tagged you, I apologize. I agree completely with you about chain letters.
Because the person who tagged me had made such good use of the prompt, I forwarded it totally without thought. That was wrong, and I’m sorry.
Thanks for the lesson!
Ken
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