Oh Come On - How Stupid and Gullible are People?

I'm getting kind of tired of these emails/IM that try to get others to forward the response to 10 friends - or whatever.

Today on Snopes, they have "busted" the myth that you can receive a $60 or $160 cell phone credit by forwarding a specific text message to 10 friends.

This has been going on for YEARS now. Have people not clued in yet? I guess not, because there must be people that fall for these and perpetuate the myth.

I clearly remember the early days of ICQ. We'd get a message saying something along the lines of "if you don't forward this IM to 10 other people, they'll think that your account in active and kill it". Bloody ridiculous that people would even for a second think that this is the case.

Wake up and give your head a shake, this Internet isn't a new thing and here's Rick's Rule of The Internet #1 - don't take ANYTHING at face value. Question it - and challenge it - and see if it holds weight.