People are always sending joke fwds all over the internet, thinking they are so hilarious and so original.

Well, yes - maybe they are the first time you get them in your inbox, but not when you get the same joke fwd eight different times from eight different mailing lists. It's also worth looking into the validity of the joke if it's in the form of a story. Believe it or not, a lot of supposedly funny stories and pictures passed around in chain email forwards are only partly true, distorted, or completely fabricated, and people end up believing and laughing at nonsense made up about particular companies, celebrities, products etc. The only difference between a false joke fwd about a certain product/company/person and a scary warning hoax about it is that one's trying to be funny so you will forward it all over the internet, and the other's trying to be scary so you will forward it, even if it's completely bogus.

Other joke fwds aren't false stories about specific people, companies or products, but they're still annoying just because they are chain email, and when you send it on, you don't know how many times your recipiant has already gotten it.

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