Dear "well-meaning" unthinking, completely taken-in uhm, 'friend'

This chain has been circulating around the net and so have others like it for ages. When you get enough of this canned friendship in a fwd many times over by other people who keep getting sucked into the deception that it's pure and good and sincere and original and a WONDERFUL way to be your friend - you'll hopefully come to understand why I don't appreciate it and why I've stopped writing to you. If you wanted to stay in touch with me, you should've written me a note and not sent me this chain mail. I've said it in front of you before, I hate chain mail forwards and I've told you why. Not only do I detest them being sent to me personally, I detest them being sent anywhere at all. They are killing real communication and real friendships, and brain cells as well. Chain mail isn't just the kind that promises you money if you send it along with a $5 check to the next name on the list. It comes in the form of propaganda and scare mongering, sick and dying kid hoaxes, virus warnings, medical hysteria, petitions, email boycotts, prayer wheels,glurge stories designed to get you in the heart and make you cry torrents of tears, stupid jokes and pictures that seem to come from nowhere and yet are everywhere within a matter of days, bizarre stories about food contamination, stories and misquotations designed to muddy a person's reputation or to make up some other lie about them, good or bad - and yes, the friendship roses and hug wars too. If it tells you to "pass it on" to all your friends, everyone you know, x many people, it's a chain letter. If it tells you to "pass it on only if you like" or says "This is not a chain letter" and "You don't need to pass it on, it's up to you" it most definitely is a chain letter and it is telling you to pass it on. It's just a weak attempt at toning down the urgent demand to make you continue forwarding away. The hope is that you will be fooled into thinking it is not chain mail and that if you pass it on, it's because you wanted to and not because the hard sell was contained within the rest of the forward. Example, it was so gripping, so funny, so moving to you on its own, that you scarcely needed gentle but disguised persuasion to forward it. But you did, which means you fell right into the trap and reproduced yet another copy among millions of copies of some forward and sent it on to me and all others on your address book. That isn't friendship, it's junkmail, it's spam, and it's no way to treat a friend. Are friends not worth your own words and your time? What did I do to deserve some canned friendship message that you didn't write, a piece of chain mail that many people are so "personally" and "meaningfully" sending to many more in their address books and posting all over the web? The only thing I might be guilty of is getting wise to this sort of phony nonsense, and expecting others to be so smart. For that, I apologize! So sorry for expecting people to think! So sorry for believing I was worth more than junkmail to my "Friends!" So sorry I couldn't remain willingly stupid for you! So sorry you got the impression I'm idiot enough to believe this was better than anything personal from you! So sorry you thought I was dumb as you and might actually believe chain letters could grant wishes or put curses on you in proportion to what's done with them. So very truely deeply sorry I'm not the "friend" you want!

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