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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
WDYD?: FW emails w/false info
A couple of my family members and friends are frequent offenders. This morning I got the one from my cousin telling people URGENT! Go add your cell phone to the Do Not Call registry or all of the telemarketers are going to have your number! This is not the first time I've gotten this one and knew it was false, so I replied (to her only) with the snopes link. I usually either do that, or ignore it. I've thought that by sending the snopes link they will do a quick fact check before forwarding the next time (and also they will have the accurate info for themselves), but they don't always seem to get the hint.
Just out of curiosity, what do you do when someone sends you one? Send them the snopes link, reply some other way, ignore ... ?
Re: WDYD?: FW emails w/false info
We've had this problem before. We used to just reply with the snopes link, but it didn't stop. Finally, we just sent an email back to the few offenders and basically said that they need to always check Snopes first because 90% of the crap they send is wrong and it's getting really annoying. Now, we rarely get stupid stuff like that, so it must've worked
Anyway, I'd just flat out tell them to check Snopes and it's driving you nuts. (not just send a link back) Sometimes people don't know how to use Snopes, so explaining how to do it might help. That's what I did with my grandmother.
Truthfully? First I laugh at them and think about what idiots they are
Then I just delete them - I think they pretty much expect me to delete them anyways since I am the "Dallas snot" and all
LOL... i do the same thing. just delete them. no matter how many times i email people back with the true information - they keep forwarding stuff my way. oh well.
I'm pretty sure I got that one from my cousin AND my MIL, lol.
I felt really bad for my DH because they don't have internet access at work, so he couldn't look it up on Snopes. And he felt horrible, but he thought he was getting it from a credible source. After that got sent around, their bosses mandated no more "Fwd" emails.
Definitely. I would never reply to all. I leave it up to them if they want to correct themselves with everyone.
I send the link to the correct info. (just to the offender), the more reliable the better (like Johns Hopkins own website saying that is not their research) if its available.
Although it doesn't work for everyone I have friends who either stopped sending out stupid stuff or at least don't send it to me anymore (either way I'm happy). After I've corrected them if I still get it I have to ignore.