"10 REASONS WHY YOU WON’T WANT TO DELETE THIS CHAIN LETTER"
Oh, really?
Just try me. I'll do better than quietly delete. This meme is getting throttled.
The meme was posted at the link above on March 27, 2014. The "ten reasons" weren't originally part of the chain letter, they were quotes from various people who actually took part in it. *Rolling eyes*
😏Meme: Positive Thinking.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Don't give me that! You meme twits really need to stop assuming there's something wrong with everybody's thinking and that you need to tell us how to fix it! So here's some positivity for you - I am positively annoyed and am about to give this chain a pummelling.
😏Meme: Hi,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I don't want what you're selling, go away!
😏Meme: We're starting a collective,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That's a negative point right there. Collectivity, you know fandoms are collectivist mindsets too, right? Just look at the bronies, otaku and Twi-hards. Very collectivist. I don't go in for that at all. Expect me to resist you at every turn.
😏Meme: constructive,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Constructive in the sense that you are constructing another internet meme AKA chain letter and you want other people joining in as cogs in this assembly-line project. Nothing new or amazing there at all. Same goal as anyone else deliberately starting a meme, whether it be a hoax or just a rather misguided effort.
😏Meme: and hopefully uplifting exchange.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Of all the ways a person can try to do something uplifting, so many fall back on memes. That's a lazy way out, annoying, and not uplifting at all. If you want uplifting, personally reach out instead. Make comments, write your own content, but for goodness sake, don't fall back on starting yet another useless meme. Because I guarantee, it's already annoying someone - me, and is bound to annoy others eventually, the more it goes around. The sad thing is, it's cloaked in such "positive thinking" speak that it pretty much insures most people who are secretly annoyed will be too afraid to speak up for fear of looking like killjoys or something. *Facepalm*
😏Meme: It's a one-time thing
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bollox! If it takes off, it won't be a one-time thing. Chain letters never are. They circulate years after they start. Look at that blasted Liebsters *cough* "award" that blog chain letter has been going around for years! It still hasn't died!
😏Meme: and we hope you will participate.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Of course you do, every chain originator wants their viral crud spreading far and wide. Well, consider your hopes dashed from my end.
😏Meme: We have picked those we think would be faithful,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Because using words like "faith" is a tactic bound to reel people in to this scheme, everybody wants to be thought of as "faithful" about something. Well, I am faithful to my mission, which means, this meme is getting mangled.
😏Meme: and make it fun.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: And when a chain letter promises "fun" who in the world can resist that? We all love fun, and all a meme-starter has to do is mention "fun" and voila, instantly somebody's likely to get roped into it soon.
Well, I'm immune to your powers of suggestion. You may call it "fun" but it is not "fun at all. It's a blasted chain letter, nothing more.
😏Meme: I love this as a way to pay it forward
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Pay-it-forward = chain letter and there's nothing to love about it.
😏Meme: and commit a random act of kindness.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Aaaaaaagh! The cliche. Kill it already!
If you really want to do something random and kind, ditch this stupid meme and do something truly kind like write a friend a personally typed note! What a novel concept! Just write some friend a "Hi, how are you doing" sort of note that comes from you, with no viral strings attached. I can almost guarantee you will brighten their day far more than sending them this pile of pretentious sap!
😏Meme: Please send an encouraging quote or verse to the person whose name is in position 1 below (even if you don't know him or her).
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bleck! This is bad enough when it's the dreaded recipe exchange chain letter. what if some of these people on your list aren't into quotes? if they're anything like me, they sure as heck wouldn't be. I want to hear from my friends. if I want quotes, I'll read a book, listen to music, or watch a show/movie. I don't go on the internet to read friends spouting random quotes from someone else. I'm not sending quotes to any arbiterrily assigned name on some list anyway.
😏Meme: It should be a favorite verse/motivational poem/prayer/meditation that has lifted you when you were experiencing challenging times.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I read that passage at my baptism. I'm not putting it into a chain letter, which i refuse to participate in to begin with!
😏Meme: Don't agonize over it--
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I'm not going to…!
😏Meme: think of something that you reach for when you need it or the one that you always turn to.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I'll do that on my own time, and when I'm finished this meme-mangling.
😏Meme: 1) email address #1
2) email address #2
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Nice try…No…
😏Meme: After you've sent the short poem/verse/meditation/quote/etc. to the person in position 1,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That would be never.
😏Meme: and only that person,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I already said, no.
😏Meme: copy this letter into a new email,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Nothing doing. I'm not emailing it anywhere.
😏Meme: move my name to position 1.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I don't even know what your name is or I'd point out at the beginning of this mangle that you had originated this monstrosity.
😏Meme: and put your name in position 2.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That's your sneaky way of collecting everybody's email addresses. Again, nothing doing.
😏Meme: Only my name and your name should show when you email.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Like I said, it's a sneaky collective scheme on your part, it's not fun or uplifting, and you're getting no help from me.
😏Meme: Send to 20 friends BCC (blind copy).
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: N O !
😏Meme: If you cannot do this in five days,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Forget 'cannot' it's WILL NOT!
😏Meme: let us know so it will be fair to those participating.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I'll tell you what's really fair, ditching this stupid chain letter idea completely in favour of writing your friends your own personal notes.
😏Meme: It's fun
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: NOT!
😏Meme: to see where they come from.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That's fun for you as an email-collector. Not so much for anyone who falls for it and ends up with an inbox full of junk mail and viruses. Not so much fun for those who just receive it or come across it and get annoyed by it.
😏Meme: Seldom does anyone drop out
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Unfortunately there are a lot of dupes for this sort of crud. But I'm not one of them.
😏Meme: because we all need new ideas and inspiration.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Hey jerk face! If you want new ideas and inspiration you sure as heck won't get it from chain letters, especially when there are tons of poetry and quote-archiving sites around, not to mention everyday stuff giving us all new ideas and inspiration. This chain letter is actually useless and unoriginal, it has been tried so many times before with recipe exchanges, those never-ending questionnaire memes, poetry exchange memes and the like.
😏Meme: The turnaround is fast, as there are only two names on the list, and you only have to do it once.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: no, no one has to do it at all! This "only once" is a joke anyway, because these chains have a nasty habit of being recycled and recirculated. There's no guarantee this chain letter will splat on someone's computer screen just once during their lifetime. Like any other meme, it can end up at one person's computer from 7 different sources. especially when Bcc is used, because no one knows who it has already been sent to.
😏Meme: Be positive
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Yeah, I got that. I positively hate this chain letter.
😏Meme: I hope you will copy the letter above and start your own chain of positive thinking.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Your hopes just got dashed twice. I'm not copying this letter to anybody's email and certainly not starting another meme, of "share the canned positivity" or anything else. Now scarper already!
Over and out.