How does it make you feel when someone just sends you emails FW: stupid jokes but never adds a word to you?

Question

I have a friend that all she does is forwards stupid jokes, dumb stories & chain letter emails that I'm suppose to send out in 5 minutes to 10 people. I don't mind a nice story or a joke here & there but I would like to just hear from her & what's going on in her life. I feel that it is a very lazy way of staying in touch with someone you call "friend" ! Some days there were 5 or 6 from her & no personnel message at all.
I have blocked her & the emails go to my deleted box.

Answer 1

Meh, she's a noob.

Answer 2

I would do (and have done) the same thing. But do you ever send her any emails? If not, then the line is dead on both ends, and she's still making more effort than you! Anyway, I stay away from forwards as a general rule, and I can't tolerate people sending them to me in mass amounts (5 or 6 a day! i would just get a new email address! lol).

Answer 3

It makes me feel really awkward... as if I do not know why that person even sent me this in the first place. The ones that bug me the most are the ones that tell me if I don't send it to more people, I will die at midnight or anything like that. At those moments, I ask myself, does my friend really want want me to send this to other people? Why would he or she send me this anyway, without a word?



But this is what I would do, and this is what I would not do.



I wouldn't block my friend though. I would confront and message him or her about my feelings, and how serious I feel when they send me these e-mails without a word. I would ask them why, and request them not to. They may stop, and they may also explain.



But it is also important to understand that they may have no bad intentions. Maybe they just want to joke around with you, and they had no time to leave any other messages. Try to find and sort things out by confronting them, and not by deleting the messages and blocking your friends. This is my advice though, this is what I would do.



Hope this helps. Feel free to message me with any other concerns.

Answer 4

Wow, why don't you just email her, it takes two to be in a friendship, so why are you waiting for her to email you?! Stop blocking her emails, and let her know that you really don't want those silly chain mail letters anymore, tell her straight-up that you want to hear from her and know what's going on in her life, that you don't want a passive relationship anymore. So get to it, stop reading answers on Yahoo Answers and start writing to her to catch up on all the time you lost forwarding and reading junk you never wanted to know. She feels like she is keeping in contact with you and you aren't contacting her, so get to it!

Answer 5

Why don't you Answer one of those Silly FWD Jokes and tell the Person that you Prefer to here about How they are doing than getting a ton of jokes. You know, if they realize that you are more interested in them than the Jokes, you might stop getting the Jokes and get e-mails about her like you want.