Rant!Vancouver

Okay, so someone I know that is really close to me, whom I will not name forwarded an e-mail to me this morning. It was obviously a personal e-mail. It had an old friends engagement photos in it. I could see everyone she e-mailed it to, then there’s a skip in the link! Someone else not on the list then forwarded it to someone, who then forwarded it to someone else who in turn forwarded it someone else who then forwarded it to me! I was number 5 in this string! I’m not sure if I should feel happy to see these pictures & know this good news or to feel slighted as I wasn’t the original recipient. We used to be the best of buds at one stage, extremely close. I was number 5 in the string! I know each & everyone who forwarded this e-mail!

Then I ask… Are these people really friends? Did they have the best intention at heart when they were doing this??? I must see the other side… Did they want to share her happy news & let everyone in the world know about her joyous engagement I wasn’t invited to… Show me pics that I wasn’t apart of?? I’m conflicted - this is about me, no her, no me - YES HER. I digress, I sure hope this kind of thing wouldn’t happen to me even if it was the best news in the world that I was sharing privately with you. But, how would I know until someone in the string either forwards it back to me or ‘cc’ or ‘bcc’s me in the string again!!!

By the way don’t you realize that I now have all you’re e-mail address because you didn’t care to bcc your recipients. I can now spam all your buds & send naked photoshoped pics of you around the world. What? You thought I didn’t have pics of you?

In 5 hits of the forward button her pics have gone around the world once now. E-mails & photos that are attached to them are private. I believe that it’s only meant to be for the recipient. I would sure hope ‘my friends’ would know this & would accept this as common practice. Obviously not, common etiquette isn’t so common. So my point is DON’T FORWARD MY E-MAILS & PHOTOS unless I say ‘feel free to forward this’, it’s on my blog or on my public photo album. This is only applicable to me - I’m not sure how everyone else feels about this. But I sure hope this wouldn’t happen to me. Now the question is, should I be inserting a note at the end of my e-mails be it hotmail, yahoo, gmail, work e-mail or my home e-mail - stating the obvious?

*** This is a private e-mail, if you are not the intended recipient then you’ve received this in error - you’re not on my e-mail list (you’re not really my bud) & the person (who isn’t really my bud) that forwarded this probably doesn’t understand that this is a PRIVATE E-MAIL & I feel like an ass because (it’s all about me) now I have to put it a stupid note like this at the bottom of my e-mails stating the obvious.”

p.s. Oh yes - Please feel free to forward this - this is a public service announcement. I mean it. You can forward this. But Please take out my e-mail address before you hit forward & if you send it to a list - please bcc the recipients so that people like me can’t see all your buds to spam them, feel offended that I’m part of a mass mail & to stop me from ranting on a dumb thing like this.

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