I HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!rjr

You get a "A" in my grade book any day my dear. I promise I won't keep ya after class, unless you volunteer!

In the last few weeks I have checked several emails through Snopes and found your 3/4 ers to be right on. In fact one in particular had me almost going for thr foreward button, especially since at the bottom was a note " VERIFIED BY SNOPES ". It sounded so true. And it was by Paul Harvey. On a whim, I went to Snopes and "WALLAH"--------FALSE.

Keep pounding it to us MARE.

chucktoo

Chuck, move to the head of the class! You are to be commended for your efforts. I for one thank you. Merci beaucoup mon ami!

People keep sending me junk on an almost constant basis and I keep telling them to verify, but the same danged people keep sending me things. When I tell them to re-check because it's been proven to be false, they answer back, well it SAID IT WAS TRUE! When did everyone become so danged naive and gullible? Because it said it was TRUE!

I would love to send them something about themselves and say, "Look what I heard about you. This person said it was true, so you must be a drunken thief!" Wouldn't that be the same thing?

What if I sent something along and some people doubted it, but I resent it and placed Dwight D Eisenhower's name in the email. Would that make it so? GOSH! I just don't know!

Marion,

Thanks for spreading the gospel on this. I am forever copying from snopes and attaching it to emails and returning them. I've even gone so far as to write a letter to a couple of the worst offenders in my addy book reminding them how they would feel if someone wrote those things about their kids.

Thanks!!!

You get a "A" in my grade book any day my dear. I promise I won't keep ya after class, unless you volunteer!

I'll volunteer everyday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!rjr

Aha! Teacher's pet!

Marion,

Thanks for spreading the gospel on this. I am forever copying from snopes and attaching it to emails and returning them. I've even gone so far as to write a letter to a couple of the worst offenders in my addy book reminding them how they would feel if someone wrote those things about their kids.

Thanks!!!]

Civilwargal, you are very welcome. Nothing drives me crazier. Hey it's cool when you inform people once. There's a learning curve for everything. But when you tell someone twice, three times, six times, it becomes damn right annoying.

Two people come to mind right away- one being a cousin and the other a friend from long ago, and they continually do it. My cousin said once, well sorry but I lost those web addresses a long time ago. So I resent them, and then a few months later... I'm about ready to bop her on the head.

Roger That Mon Cheri!!!

Sgtleo

Another friendly reminder! Please check out the validity of any story before you post on our site. This is especially important for virtually anything which is sent to you in an email. It will only take a couple minutes of your time. It's a matter of simple courtesy. Thanks!

This week there's one going around about President Obama (one? I'm sure there are dozens and dozens), and it doesn't even matter what the subject matter is. But it was sent to me and dozens of others. I guess it really lit a fire under a few, and at least four people hit REPLY ALL, and sent out some really eloquent statements regarding NOT FORWARDING EMAIL WITHOUT CHECKING YOUR SOURCES!

Well I wound up chatting with a few of them, and really enjoyed our exchanges. I did not know these folks, but they felt the same as I. They too have had it up to here with friends and family forwarding email filled with propaganda, exaggerations, and just plain b--s--t! As I relayed to one woman,

...I have one woman whom I met through a WWII vet. Great gal, volunteers and does a number of things to put many to shame. However, she can't get it through her pretty little skull... My buddy and I have written to her on a DOZEN occasions and called her out on misinformation. She sweetly writes back and apologizes, then turns around two weeks later and does it again. I've come THIS CLOSE to deleting her as a friend but...

 

The other day she sent a "pleasant" one, but nonetheless it held a dozen untrue statements within its frame. We wrote to her again and asked, why didn't you check this out? Well she replied, it was about Captain Kangaroo and Lee Marvin and how they fought in the war. It was so nice. ARRGGGHH!

 

As I say in my household, "Please step to the front of the slappin' line!"

 

Maybe we should all form a group. We can call it The Citizens Against Misinformation - CAM

 

Let's keep CAM rolling and be vigilant citizens. Ya it does take some effort, but maybe, just maybe, we can convert a few more to our side...

I'm this close to deleting people from my contact list who continually annoy me this this type of thing. Some may think this is a pretty hard-stance, but when you consider the size of my contact list (over 1200), you can see why I have no time, nor patience for people who continue to GOSSIP.

I have lost all patience with this, and so have many others. No more!

Here's what I wrote to another today...

Hello all:

 

Felt I should reply to ALL, even though most may not know who I am. However, I totally agree with Gene and Vivian, and in fact had a nice chat with Ellen yesterday too.

 

Gene's words were to the point and quite eloquent, so there's no need to repeat his feelings on the latest President Obama's email. What I will say though, and what I have told family, friends and colleagues over and over; please do not forward any email until you check your facts. Period. I don't care it it's good or bad news. Exaggerations are still exaggerations, and lies are still lies.

 

I run a popular WWII forum, and it's one of the first things I tell my readers; don't post anything here without checking your sources.

 

Regardless of who you are, regardless of your political, religious or any other persuasion, it only hurts you and the credibility of any of the groups you are associated with, if you pass along info without validating the source and the substance. In plain English; it's still gossip, whether it be told to you at a neighbor watering hole, or passed along in an email.

 

So let's be better citizens by doing our homework. It's a real crown of glory when someone can say about you, "If you heard it from so-and-so, then you know it's the truth." That's a real badge of honor!

Let me add one more thing

Most of you ARE doing your homework and I am proud of you. This group as a whole does a fantastic job! BRAVO. You are good students and good teachers. Carry on my "peeps"!