Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. YouTube Instagram Adobe. Kickstarter Tumblr Art Club. Film TV Games. Fortnite Game of Thrones Books. Comics Music. Filed under: Culture Internet Culture. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. More From The Verge. First spotted in spring , these letters contained a list of five or six names and addresses.
Local post offices reported record-breaking mail volume , and enterprising individuals started selling copies to buyers hoping to recoup their initial investment by circulating the notes widely and racing to the top of the list. Within weeks, however, the craze had petered out.
In early May of , the U. With the invention of the photocopier in , reproducing chain letters became easier than ever before. Some senders probably assumed anonymity under the mistaken belief that all chain letters were illegal. Money chain letters, on the other hand, are indeed illegal, though many explicitly state otherwise. Per the U. Use of Indiana University information technology resources is restricted to purposes related to the university's mission of research and creative activity, teaching and learning, and civic engagement.
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For more, see If you receive spam. If you get chain email from someone not affiliated with IU, you can reply to the sender, noting your displeasure, or you can delete and ignore the message. These days it's more likely to be a sweet poem in your email inbox or DMs with a request to send to five loved ones. While you may think it's only the older connections in your life sending chain mail, Crystal Abidin, a digital anthropologist at Curtin University, says Gen Z and millennials are leading the charge in the concept's most modern form: social media challenges.
Challenges range from requests to share your favourite album covers over 10 days and nominating friends to do the same, to answering 20 questions and tagging five others. The recent MeAt20 craze is another good example. I find you get to know people a little better," says the year-old from Gosford, NSW.
And challenges and DMs are a lot less time and investment than traditional chain mails, explains Dr Abidin, which is why we see so much of it. If you find the chain mail clogging your inbox annoying, it might help to know why people participate. And for those who love it, we have a few warnings from experts about potential security risks. Just to be clear, we aren't talking about the sharing of fake news and misinformation.
That's a whole other story and you can read about it here. Tara says challenges, like those asking people to take a photo of something positive each day for 10 days, bring people together.
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