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01 June 2005

Soon, Stupid People Will Be Taking Over The Blogosphere

There's this two questionaire thingies going on in the blogging community right now. One is the 'If I Could Be' meme, and the other is the 'Musical Baton'. I got both of them handed to me and I'll answer them soon.

I have nothing against memes. Memes are fun. I admit its interesting reading some of the replies bloggers have to those questions.

Yet at the same time I see frightening similarities these questionaires have with, all of things, forwarded e-mails. Suddenly, I have this genuine fear that soon... the blogosphere will be taken over by stupid people.
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An army of stupid people is building, waiting for the right time to launch a surprise attack on the peaceful blogging community.

Ever since their very early incarnation in the forwarded e-mail days, people who send chain letters and good luck charms and surveys and questionaires have been annoying the heck out of me.

I'm not talking about spam. Spam is another issue entirely. I'm talking about forwarded e-mails sent by PEOPLE YOU KNOW.

These are people who are so retarded to type a sincere e-mail, they rely on forwarded mails to 'communicate' with you. After a while I actually forgotten that one of these people used to be my primary schoolmates because now I think of her as 'that girl who always forward useless e-mails'.

Its the same thing all the time.

A) Your generic "I love you, life is beautiful" type of bullshit. Then they ask you to make a wish and if you forward it your wish will come true. But if you delete it THEY CURSE YOU TO HELL.
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So what happens if after you've made your wish, and I make another wish hoping that your wish wouldn't come true?

B) Forward this e-mail to your innocent friends and one very boh-liao millionaire will give you a lot of money for absolutely no reason at all. Because you're worth it! :)

C) Some poor kid is dying of some horrible disease and some Mahatma Gandhi will donate money if you forward this mail to 500 people. If you delete it you have no heart. Never mind the fact that IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TRACK HOW MANY OF THESE E-MAIL MESSAGES WERE SENT!

Gah! What the fuck is wrong with these people!?

Sometimes I wonder how these e-mail forwarders think with so much shit clogged up in their brains. Or maybe they just get an orgasm everytime they hit the "Forward Mail" button.
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This is how forwarded e-mailers get off.


Thank god for the invention of junk mail filters because now, anything that starts with "FWD:" in the subject line goes straight to my recycling bin.

Luckily for most of us, things quieten down eventually and I'm starting to get less meaningless forwarded e-mails now. But just when I thought I have my peace and all these is finally over, Friendster and its Bulletin Board come waltzing in and HELL STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN.
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Oh no! Friendster is closing down my account!

Like, duh. Can you believe that there are people out there who CANNOT deduce that the message was a hoax based on its crappy English and lack of professionalism? I can't either, considering some of the people who sent me these messages are bloody University graduates.

The sad thing is, the population of morons is only going to increase exponentially.

Chain letters started from paper-and-ink. They have since migrated to forwarded e-mails, and then to Friendster. The only reason for their proliferation is because these dimwits kept hitting the forward button and spreading them. I think its only natural that these chain letters invade the blogosphere next.

As a matter of fact I'm gonna lay down a bold prediction.

"kennysia.com predicts PROPHESIES that soon there will be chain letters on blogs. And that these chain letters will be spread around by stupid people like herpes."

Here's an example.


PLEASE POST THIS ON YOUR BLOG SO THIS LITTLE BOY CAN LIVE. YOUR ENTRY WILL BE TRACKED AND A CHEQUE WILL BE MADE BASED ON THE FINAL COUNT!!!

Dear All:

This is the request of a special little boy who will soon leave this world because he has no arms, no legs, no head and no testicles. By you showing this to as many people as possible, you can give him and his family a little glimmer of hope. That's because on every blog that this is posted on, the White House will donate USD1 towards his treatment. If this is posted on more than 100 blogs, George W Bush will donate both his testicles to this little boy!

On a side note, my balls will also expand knowing that you actually listened to me... but you don't need to know that.

Just think. Instead of that little boy, it could be you one day. Post this on your blog. Its not even your money, just your time!!!

IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS YOU HAVE NO HEART!

Dr. Kenny Sia
Professor
Center of Research into Human Stupidity
University of Uranus

Remember, you've seen it first on kennysia.com!


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54 Comments:

lol can't agree more! i'm guilty of memes..but at least am selective. that's not bad right, hurm... heh :P

since you're on this topic i must mention idiots who give friendster testimonials, no i mean forwarded picture messages. like PLEASE!!!!

Posted by: kimberlycun at 01 June 2005 3:06 AM | Link to comment

can you start a chain mail that says if someone ugly forwards it to 500 people she will become drop dead gorgeous like Maggie Q or Edison Chan when he/she wakes up the next morning??

Ive read somewhere that explains if 2 persons out of 10 forward a chain mail and it gets multiply on at that rate, it will slow down the whole internet traffic by like 6 hours in a day....thats like a fucking quarter of our day gone man...and since then i delete every FWD emails without even reading them

Posted by: Thai Boxing Girl at 01 June 2005 3:07 AM | Link to comment

I SO agree on that Friendster thing. It pissed me off so much that I had to type out a bulletin in CAPITAL LETTERS entirely and put a link to the actual FAQ that says that the forward message is a hoax. Even then, people still continued their forwarding obsession. AND most of them are university students/school top students/intelligent people in studies(i won't say they're overall intelligent because obviously they've proved themselves stupid by forwarding those messages). *smacks forehead*

Posted by: Cindy at 01 June 2005 3:08 AM | Link to comment

Heart? What's that?

Since me don't have one, me no post on my blog.

Thank you professor Kenny!

:)
mamatd

Posted by: mamatd at 01 June 2005 3:09 AM | Link to comment

Not to mention the chain letter move to handphone as well...and they fear that if they don't waste their credit to forward to 50 people then they will be xuey 20 years or whatever...talk about stupidity

Posted by: kahsoon at 01 June 2005 3:28 AM | Link to comment

btw ban me in the chatter box for what the fuck?

Posted by: kahsoon at 01 June 2005 3:30 AM | Link to comment

liao, our own Malaysian Maddox... nice rants...

Posted by: vic at 01 June 2005 5:11 AM | Link to comment

Haha that's funny. I too totally hate those chain emails. It gets SO frustrating when my Inbox is flooded with them. Grr. Idiots.

Posted by: LT at 01 June 2005 7:05 AM | Link to comment

O M G. i forwarded the musical baton tooooo....

that makes me one of those idiots heh? *twiddles fingers*

Posted by: sassyjan at 01 June 2005 8:01 AM | Link to comment

*kills chain mails*

I shall now declare war on chain mails!!! Who's with me say "Arrrrr!!"

Posted by: Lyon at 01 June 2005 8:51 AM | Link to comment

Now I know why I dun ever forward chain mails, maybe thats the reason ppl in teh blogsphere dun pass me any meme batons.

Even if they do I will shove it up where teh sun dun shine :)

Posted by: Naiveguy at 01 June 2005 9:07 AM | Link to comment

Yeah! I hate these idiots too!! I always believe ppl like them will kena Karma! Beware!!

Posted by: ahchhuan at 01 June 2005 9:12 AM | Link to comment

Sorry no time to forward.As for the chain e mail I always delete them.

Posted by: thquah at 01 June 2005 9:20 AM | Link to comment

Remember, you've seen it first on kennysia.com!

I seen forwared email and chain letter everywhere! Those idiots are potential candidate for spammer vacancy.

Posted by: ashie at 01 June 2005 9:21 AM | Link to comment

So is this poor boy the same as Ting dream of?

Posted by: Edmund at 01 June 2005 9:25 AM | Link to comment

Memes are sometimes entertaining. Most of those forwarded e-mails, however, are a pain in the ass. The one about the 300 Acehnese orphans still makes my blood boil.

Posted by: Jordan at 01 June 2005 9:39 AM | Link to comment

spam the spammers, that's the solution.

for every chain mail you forward to me, I'll forward it back to you 10 times. so my wish will come true 10 times faster.

Posted by: sandkan at 01 June 2005 9:56 AM | Link to comment

Aiyahh, those spam filtering will get u no where someday. These ppl will have their way to get d spam all over your ass. Follow my way, in reply to spam I received. Reply to a guy friend "Hoi asshole! No more junk mail ah! c*bai!" To a girl friend "Leng loi ah, please no more junk mail ok? *muacks*"

Posted by: Joe at 01 June 2005 10:43 AM | Link to comment

U know what's worst? Some of the forwards I received are by the people in IT Sector, the very ppl who are in this very field to improve it. ~sigh~ I guess the resource of common sense is depleting to a dangerous level.....

Posted by: ShadowJr at 01 June 2005 12:06 PM | Link to comment

I noticed that these blardee emails have FWD: in the subject bar.

Action taken: DELETED on the spot. Bah!

Just too bad they can't be filtered thru' the junk mail folder because all these idiots are your aquaintances. HOW THE HELL DID I GET TO KNOW THEM ANYWAY...?!

Posted by: ct at 01 June 2005 12:34 PM | Link to comment

I'm not against memes! Some memes are fun. I've done a few and started a few myself. I'm against chain letters. Big difference there. :)

kimberlycun, for you, there's only one thing to say.
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a cUtE cUtE BeAR 4 A KaWaiI GaL lIKe YoU!


ThaiBoxingGirl, I was hoping to start a chain letter saying that for every person this gets forwarded to, his dick will grow by one inch. If he deletes the mail than his dick will drop off the next morning.

Cindy, funny how ppl read those junk mails, but never read your serious message eh?

mamatd, hahaa! Gee what are you? Dark lord of the Sith?

kahsoon, wtf? obviously their parents pay for the phone bill! Anyway, I've banned the IP because some troll was using that IP to spam my tag-board. I've removed it now.

vic, Maddox?

LT, do you think forwarded emailers are going to target me after this entry? heh heh.

sassyjan, ah you got me wrong there! Musical batons are other memes are fun and interesting. Chain letters that curse you to hell if you don't forward it are not.

Lyon, heh. Its like the scene from Braveheart.

Naiveguy, I'm doing the musical baton tomorrow. And I'll be sure to pass it to you. HEH.

ahchhuan, karma they will.

thquah, you are doing a service to the community.

ashie, what? Cannot think now. Need to forward mail.

Edmund, err.... no. :) She does NOT have wet dreams of me, please.

Jordan, I agree. But they seem to believe that if they don't forward it to me they'll get a string of bad luck. They never listen to what I said lah!

sandkan, now that's a solution! :) But they'll probably forward it back to you 10 times more again. ARGH! The horrors!

Joe, ewwww.

ShadowJr, in the IT Sector? wtf? What hope is there left to combat chain mailers?

ct, I know I know, that's the dilemma isn't it? Sometimes I just BAN them. Can't take it anymore.

Posted by: Kenny at 01 June 2005 12:52 PM | Link to comment

.|. is suffice hahahhahaah

Posted by: kimberlycun at 01 June 2005 12:55 PM | Link to comment

You have testicles?

Posted by: Aileen at 01 June 2005 2:00 PM | Link to comment

Heh. I've still no idea why people are still posting the "Friendster is closing" thing again and again.

Posted by: synical at 01 June 2005 2:41 PM | Link to comment

yeah some people can be so stupid and gullible.

know what? these forwarded emails by friends might cause friendship breakdown... esp. if one side, like me, is quite outspoken (and 'si beh tahan liao'). twice already friends forwarded this useless junks to me and i told them off... er... in a nice way lah... then they get angry with me saying they just want to share with me, if i don't like it, keep quiet why tell them off. then it's my turn to get angry! so putuslah the friendship.
(note: this is between casual not so good friends lah).

Posted by: lucia at 01 June 2005 3:49 PM | Link to comment

wahlau...i where got so free to spam your board wo...not like i can get money from it XD

Posted by: kahsoon at 01 June 2005 3:59 PM | Link to comment

im like immuned to those kinda forward thingies....that i momment i see the word FWD, i eiter delete it or click 'next'! muahahahhaha

Posted by: Justina at 01 June 2005 4:47 PM | Link to comment

i just ignore them

Posted by: ben at 01 June 2005 5:14 PM | Link to comment

hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
hahaaaaaaaaaaaaa hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa lol

all my emails goes into junk box first, i will slowly look thru the junk mail later...

Posted by: ahlian at 01 June 2005 5:51 PM | Link to comment

good entry...

if only we can put 'common sense' and 'intelligence' into bottles and sell them... oh... distribute them for free even... the world would be a much better place to live in :D

Posted by: ceres at 01 June 2005 5:52 PM | Link to comment

i dont know why people even bother to come up wih chain emails. first it was chain letters. remember those? now emails. BAH!!

Posted by: feli at 01 June 2005 6:31 PM | Link to comment

Actually I read that no legs no eyes no testicles no dick (or something like that) before.

But the truth of it still brings a tear to my eyes.

And I don't understand the ACSII thing on Friendster testimonials. I know I'm cute but I want real words dammit!

Posted by: suanie at 01 June 2005 6:56 PM | Link to comment

Your posts never fail to amuse me. Keep writing...

Posted by: thedean at 01 June 2005 7:33 PM | Link to comment

A religious girl I know forwarded me these type of e-mails. While her intention is good, does wasting bandwith increase your karma or something?

Posted by: NSDS3HvLDjJd at 01 June 2005 8:08 PM | Link to comment

MUAHAHAHA! So fucking funny!

But there are just so many stupid people around, well, it can't be help. So i'm very assured that, such a chain blog post will be happening real soon

Posted by: Claris at 01 June 2005 8:40 PM | Link to comment

right on...

bloody stupid ppl...

esp those on friendster~~~

;P~~

Posted by: met at 01 June 2005 9:03 PM | Link to comment

I really agree for wat u had said about those stupid chain letters and thos spaming mails and stuffs,especially that stupid spam message in friendster.Use backsdie think also know la,even friendster really wanna close down,do they use this kind of method?I wonder how many ppl use thier brains while surfing net?

Posted by: Jiun Wuu at 01 June 2005 10:28 PM | Link to comment

memes are great for boredom...Fucking chain letters though....grrrrrrr...They're not even on bulletins anymore, I'm getting messages delivered to me in my inbox.

Posted by: Lainie at 01 June 2005 10:39 PM | Link to comment

I find the quizzes with ACTUAUL questions fun but those with forwarded shit that curses me to hell...well. DELETE.

But I'm lucky in a way cuz all my friends seem to have some COMMON sense and INTELLIGENCE. They don't forward chain mails anymore. Only on Friendster Bulletins. Where only a small percentage posts such trash.

I thank God for that.

Posted by: Quinsy at 02 June 2005 12:15 AM | Link to comment

Blasphemy... You dont know who maddox is!!!?
here... www.maddox.xmission.com

Posted by: vic at 02 June 2005 1:30 AM | Link to comment

main difference between a meme and a chain letter is that the meme doesn't come with threats. =) I read some of the forwards I get for jokes but I definitely enjoy being the one to end chain letters these days. So far.... so good. Still in one piece.

Posted by: gracie at 02 June 2005 3:56 AM | Link to comment

i don't care. you are completing my MEME whether you like it or not. and you must put photoshop pics on it to make it look fun. BLEH

HERE YOU GO.

http://www.minishorts.net/?p=281

Posted by: minishorts at 02 June 2005 10:44 AM | Link to comment

Oh.....that boy so poor..
MUST FOWARD!!!


PLEASE POST THIS ON YOUR BLOG SO THIS LITTLE BOY CAN LIVE. YOUR ENTRY WILL BE TRACKED AND A CHEQUE WILL BE MADE BASED ON THE FINAL COUNT!!!

Dear All:

This is the request of a special little boy who will soon leave this world because he has no arms, no legs, no head and no testicles. By you showing this to as many people as possible, you can give him and his family a little glimmer of hope. That's because on every blog that this is posted on, the White House will donate USD1 towards his treatment. If this is posted on more than 100 blogs, George W Bush will donate both his testicles to this little boy!

On a side note, my balls will also expand knowing that you actually listened to me... but you don't need to know that.

Just think. Instead of that little boy, it could be you one day. Post this on your blog. Its not even your money, just your time!!!

IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS YOU HAVE NO HEART!

Dr. Kenny Sia
Professor
Center of Research into Human Stupidity
University of Uranus

Posted by: Kenny Lee at 02 June 2005 2:08 PM | Link to comment

haha.. kenny u r good (=

Posted by: julie at 03 June 2005 5:40 PM | Link to comment

LOL stop it already!!
" George W Bush will donate both his testicles to this little boy! " ->> DAMN FUNNY LAH.

Posted by: lsy at 03 June 2005 9:32 PM | Link to comment

"sandkan, now that's a solution! :) But they'll probably forward it back to you 10 times more again. ARGH! The horrors!"

no harm, i have my script forwarding mail for me, for the other 10 times back, he will receive it 100 times. and have to do it manually.

Posted by: sandkan at 09 June 2005 11:22 AM | Link to comment

Haha, awesome stuff man. I really liked the last pic, very nicely done. Keep up the work XD

Posted by: Shant at 24 June 2005 2:28 PM | Link to comment

Agree with you to the full extent! Well-said!

*Impressed*

Posted by: Jane Liew at 10 July 2005 2:07 PM | Link to comment

-_- what a stupid entry.

Posted by: anonymous at 06 March 2006 3:29 PM | Link to comment

Message: from Allen Smith

Friendster's Database is running out of space!!!

Dear Friends,

It seems that Friendster's database is running low
on resources. We need you to forward this to as
many people as you can in order for us to
determine which accounts are active. Non active
accounts (those that do not forward this message)
will be deleted in order to preserve space.

Friendster has also teamed up with Myspace.com by
grouping our servers. Therefore, this applies to
both sites. If you do not spread the word, your
account will be deleted on BOTH FRIENDSTER AND
MYSPACE. Also, Mr Allen Smith has purchased major
stock in Malayan Banking Berhad (KLSE MAYBANK
(1155)), and plans to incorporate Maybank2u into
Friendster as well as converting the database for
Friendster and Myspace. Maybank has given over
some control of it's online banking services to Mr
Allen Smith and he has reserved the rights to
close down the accounts of those who do not
forward this message!!!!

Further, your IC and Birth Certificate will be
deemed null and void, thus making you alienated in
your own country!!! OMFG!!!! If you don't forward
this to as many people as you can, you will lose
the life you know now . Please, please please
forward this message so that everybody will know!!!.

Yours truly,

Mr. Allen Smith.

P.S. Mr Allen Smith said that if you visit
http://www.rateastranger.com , you will
automatically be considered "active" and thus save
your Friendster, Myspace and Maybank account. And
possibly your Citibank Credit Card too. Life as
you know it will continue peacefully while those
of the nonbelievers will turn into a living hell.

Posted by: Taymen at 14 March 2006 12:43 AM | Link to comment

yeah . . .as if i care whether those kinds of email will help or not ?
If it is able to turn me on . .
then maybe i would consider reading it in da 1st place !

Posted by: benjamin and yus at 06 July 2006 2:21 PM | Link to comment

For me, i do fwd mails, but not because i am forced to or for fear that i will be "cursed to death" or that "my wish won't come true".
usually i just fwd the ones which are somehow inspirational, and interesting in its own way. I think that's ok lah. Some fwd mails aint so boh liao actually. Rather enlightening i would say.

Posted by: cy at 01 September 2006 10:00 PM | Link to comment

I just love that final chain letter that you posted :D lolz!!

Posted by: Lina Lok at 31 October 2006 11:20 PM | Link to comment

Well yeah. Forward mails like these sucks. I wonder why most of the ppl bother to re-forward it, when most of the time these are fake msgs. Dun juz follow blindly ppl. THINK!

Posted by: Alex at 01 February 2007 1:46 PM | Link to comment

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