Benjamin Gross at the University of Illinois, US has shown how socially inept you can be just by forwarding junk mail… Hence is the reason why I just post stuff here that amuses me and it’s your job as the reader either to enjoy, share, or just move on, with out having the annoying and deflating emotions that come with junk mail from your friends (especially those that know better).
“passing an irrelevant or out-of-date link on to contacts can be annoying, thus lowering the sender’s social status in the recipient??s eyes.”
“”If they are consistently wrong about what content is of actual interest to recipients their reputation may drop in the implicit system people must apply in order to [prioritise] their email,”
From the NewScientist.com Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange