Rant: Chain letters

This is definitely a rant I'll continue to update. Chain letters I suppose they started out in the mail or other more primitive ways years ago and now they are in emails and newly instant messages. Chain letters typically come in 2 "flavors" ones that claim to give you joy and ones that threaten to kill or bring sadness to you and are know being more frequently a mix of the two. Chain letters typically ask you to send it out to other people, usually about 10 people; chain letters work because 1. people are superstitious by nature 2. The more people that send it out, it keeps growing, and it is near impossible to trace back to the original author. The only way to "stop" a chain letter is for everyone to not send it out, in the mail this works out as people do not wish to spend money on postage, however on the internet it has become more prevalent just as spam has do the fact it doesn't cost the general public anything except the annoyance, for ISPs and such, as it it a great problem as a form of spam and floods their servers. For me chain letters are annoying because I try to not be superstitious as well as it is stupid, however that doesn't keep it from getting to me, as in the ones saying if you pass this on to 10 people your crush will fall in love with you bullshit or the sad ones about someone that has died. For me I can typically easily eliminate chain letters from my inbox without reading them, which helps keep any of that compassion shit away, however the new instant message chain letter trend is a serious problem, and unless there was a real-time filtering system which could eliminate messages with phrases such as send this to 20 people by midnight (of which I find funny because I often do not have 20 people to send it to *rolls eyes*)