Hoaxes, Urban Legends, and Other Myths (LJ Idol)

Dec 14, 2007 08:47

You'll get a check from Microsoft if you forward this to 15 people!!!

Long, flowy prose allegedly written by Jay Leno, George Carlin, or Andy Rooney about the sad state of our country...

The military isn't getting paid enough, says Cindy Williams! (Who's Cindy Williams?)

The longest-running chain letter EVER!

Don't break the prayer chain!

Forward this to 10 of your friends or you'll never have sex again!

Hoax. Urban Legend. Myth. Internet scam. Chain letter. All annoying and a waste of time and bandwidth for most people.

You can do what some people do, and just delete them. Or, you can do what I do, and be really obnoxious about debunking the internet myths.

Just direct everyone to the best resource on the Internet for debunking the urban legend: Snopes!

There's no better place for finding out if that e-mail you received is true, or if that story you heard around the campfire is based in any form of reality.

Snopes!

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