![]() ![]() The advent of e-mail made chain letters explode in popularity as all these superstitious and technologically illiterate people were exposed to chain letters that could be widely recirculated by just clicking a button up until 2005 they were so widespread they were considered part and parcel of having an e-mail account, to the point that people just started mentally filtering them out and entire major websites like Snopes gained their early popularity specifically thanks to debunking chain mails. Their popularity has varied throughout the years - back in the days of snail mail they weren't unheard of, as information availability was much more limited and therefore ignorance and superstition were much more widespread, but the cost and difficulty of having to physically mail that letter again prevented them from circulating too much. Disaster proceeds to befall him on a scale which would make Job from The Bible look like a paragon of good fortune.Ĭhain letters in real life have nowhere near the credibility that they do in media, and are annoyingly common in e-mail spam and on comment pages and message boards. Though warned by his credulous friends, the skeptical character mocks the very concept of luck and vows to ignore it. ![]() Character receives a letter, one which informs the recipient that he must mail it to a certain number of people or suffer bad luck. ![]()
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