Pass this to as many people as you can and a miracle will happen.

Repost this or your mother will die.

If you delete this message, you are turning your back to God.

Chain messages, whether in the form of text, e-mail, private message, or bulletin - they just get to my nerves. And they are everywhere. Almost every time I sign in to my Friendster account or when I flip my cell phone open, there is a chain message all over. It can be kind of cool if it was no more than a plain tag-for-fun sort of thing. But once it starts mandating or scaring you, telling you things like “If you love Jesus, you will pass this to 20 people or more” or “I love my mother and I don’t want her to die so I passed this to you. I’m sorry.”, and then people will really fall for it, that’s when it gets irritating. Why would anyone believe in such things at the first place?

So here’s when people can say that, “If you don’t like it, don’t pass it.” And that they only do it for fun not because they believe it. So as for me, I simply hit that delete key, sometimes, even without reading the message entirely. But when it comes to “proving that you love God” by sending a message? I think that is purely hypocritical. Sending a message so your prayers will come true only shows that you do it for your own benefit, not because you are proving yourself worthy.

So there’s the common scenario for that type of chain messages. Hypocritical and a definite waste of load and time.