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July 21, 2008
What’s wrong with this picture? ~ Most of this email has been verified by Snopes.com
A friend sent me an email forward with some alarming claims and predictions. The email noted the “most of these claims have been verified by Snopes,” (the main urban myth checking site.)
So I checked Snopes and discovered that most of the claims were, in fact, verified by Snopes. And some were discredited. The alarming predictions of impending terrorist attacks in American cities were four years old and expired.
Why forward an email that you know contains alarming errors? Why not correct it before you send it?
That’s what I call sloppy, irresponsible communication. The responsible communicators will challenge these emails rather than pass them on.
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I couldn’t agree more, Meryl. Even the effort it takes to delete these from my inbox (I rarely open them) is a total waste of my time. I used to reply to the sender and direct them to the snopes site to debunk the claims, but I no longer even bother with that.
Comment by Debbie — July 24, 2008 @ 9:57 am