Use it BEFORE You Forward It

I have been saving this one for a LONG time.

BEFORE you forward your next email... CHECK SNOPES.COM!!!!!

I get spam emails from people I hold near & dear ALL the freakin' time. And so do you. Don't lie.. you know folks who do it too... If not, then it is probably you :)

Anyway, it's always stuff like pepsico refusing to sell in the store where the American flag was flown incorrectly. Or that the government has been eavesdropping on Sean Penn's private conversations for years & now they are on to you & your family. Or maybe Bill gates wants to give us a million dollars each for adding him our friend's list on facebook. The list goes on & on.

Problem is... no one checks to see if you are forwarding on something that is accurate, or just passing on mis-information. Take the gist of your email & type it in at Snopes .com & they will give you the origins of the email & whether or not it is accurate or not.

With an election coming up,the emails are getting more & more outlandish & basically just fear/ hate speech. I might not have voted for some of these people, but lets not send emails connecting them to terrorist organizations because your cousin's sister-in-law sent you something that was forwarded to her by her stylist's ex-boyfriend's best friend who is really into politics.


The truly heinous ones are the ones exploiting children. Making up stories about missing children, about a child's deathbed wish. These are just disgusting & more often than not totally false. Unless you know the child personally check snopes.

www.snopes.com

Use it before you forward it.