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Friday, December 31, 2004

Survey

Hi Friend,

This will only take a few minutes!

I am doing a thesis on the volume of emails going back and forth over the internet these days and you have been selected as a valuable contributor to the same. Specifically, I hope to obtain some insights on the nature of forwarded emails, their impact on the social, cultural and psychological aspects of human beings and a brief look at their cosmic future.

Please answer all the following questions truthfully. Your confidentiality will be completely safeguarded. We are only interested in the statistics and not the individual responses. Go in sequence... and don't peek!

1) On average, how often do you receive emails that are specifically addressed to you and contain plain text?

(A) Never, but I do love all the cool forwards I get :)
(B) Never, I don't have time for this kinda shit. I have a big backlog of emails to be forwarded within the next 7 minutes else my wish won't come true.
(C) Never, all my friends avoid me, I wonder why.
(D) All of the above.


2) What do you think when there is a forwarded mail in your inbox?

(A) Awww, there are so many people who care about me. I feel loooved. Let me pass on the bundle of joy.
(B) There are so many people I want to impress, so let me forward these jokes and they might just think I am smart.
(C) I don't think.
(D) All of the above.


3) What would you think if we told you that most of the forwarded emails asking for some sort of help are fake?
(A) Oh no! Are you serious? There goes all my social service down the drain! How am I going to face God when the time comes?
(B) That's impossible. They refer to really disastrous events like the WTC bombing or cancer! Now tell me if that's a coincidence.
(C) Refer to (C) of Qn-2.
(D) All of the above.


If you answered anything to any of these questions, you have a 100% probability of being stupid. But hey relax, you know how it works with probability. One can never be sure.

And guess what! Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction! You have just won a souvenir t-shirt custom-made for you at the White House. You may collect it when you go there for your next donation of brains.

Now forward this to....
....2 people and for every email, Red Cross will donate $1 to the tsunami victims in Somalia.
....5 people and you will lose 5 kgs of weight in the next 2 days.
....10 or more people and you will get a brand new working brain within the next 10 minutes.

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