Talk:Chain letter
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Could "purely accidental imperfect copying" really make a chain letter more likely to be sent? This seems a little far-fetched, considering the time span that most chain letters last. --Berdidaine 21:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Only bad?
I'm sure when I was younger, in the late 80s, a kid at my school got a chain letter and it didn't purport to offer any kind of financial award, and didn't threaten the recipient with bad luck, it only wanted to be replicated as a kind of deliberate attempt to create a meme, like a viral marketing campaign with no actual product. Are chain letters inherently bad? --Victim Of Fate 10:32, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
- If nothing else it wasted paper, postage and time. I suppose one possible example of a "good" chain letter might be Samizdat publication, but "good" is inherently POV - I'm sure Soviet officials didn't consider it so. :) Bryan 00:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] examples....
Should we include some examples?
I get plenty of these I could donate :) 70.59.187.173 00:00, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, perhaps you could put some on Sourceberg? I wonder what sort of licence a chain letter would be considered to be under, since the letter grants permission to freely copy it. :) Bryan 00:25, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Oh, the dreaded afflictions of the chain letter....
examples of the longest lasting, or forwarded by the most people, would be good. Saccerzd 16:33, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Nice examples would be the ones from the series with include the Baklaliviatatlaglooshenian boy... That's just so sad.. =( lol 200.230.213.152 02:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Memes and human hosts
- A chain letter can be considered a type of meme, a self-replicating piece of information that uses a human host to distribute copies of itself.
The present language of this article carries certain assumptions that may not be widely held. Perhaps they are good assumptions, but it would be nice to distance the article from them. Eric 08:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Amy Bruce chain letter hoax
Hey, I was wondering if this was something good to write an article about. I`ve heard about this infamous chain letter hoax that started back in the 1990`s.
The letter talked about a 7 year-old girl named Amy Bruce who said she was dying from lung cancer(from "second hand smoke") and a brain tumor(from "repeated beatings"). She said every time her letter was forwarded, the Make-A-wish foundation would donate 7 cents to her cause because her parents couldn`nt pay her hospital bills.
Of course, the whole letter was a hoax. But I thought it was intresting. I was wondering if i could... ummm... write an article about it. I first had some doubts about asking since Amy does`nt exist and the whole thing is a hoax. Please tell me what you think. 67.33.252.42 22:04, 11 March 2006 (UTC)4.153.2.35 5:02 10, march 2006
- It would be best to mention it in this article first. Then, if there is enough information, a separate article can be created. Remember to cite sources and avoid original research. Superm401 - Talk 22:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
hmmm.... There doesn`t seem to be enough information to write a seperrate article(I`ve been looking for info all this time) But I could write an article about chain letter hoaxes. There are dozens of famous ones that have been going around. I could, in the article, talk about some famous ones and then explain why they are fake. I just have to figure out how to explain it from a normal POV. --67.33.252.42 10:48 10 June, 2006
