Email FORWARDS are the next best propaganda tool!

Ok, so I am sitting calmly, trying to mediate and focus on not doing anything, and praying for some excitement. (Unfortunately the guy above has a strange sense of humour and answers your prayers when your just kidding.)

Suddenly the office tech guy runs across the corridor like a 'town crier' (in this case the 'office crier'), waving his hands as if he had a little bell, and spoke of frightful consequences. He warned us all about the evils opening Gmail and Google would bring upon us... Huh??? Double take... Huh??? He was almost on the verge of getting his heebie jeebies peacock feathers out and waving them on all the computers. He screamed Google has been hacked and that spyware will take over your computer and more importantly your UPS! Yeah, apparently all my crucial data is stored in my UPS. (Maybe this is some sort of company policy to protect data stealing)

He decided that some inane forward was worth preaching to the world. Surprisingly he got the support of the office clowns and bimbos, who were only too scared to access 'that', that must not be now spoken about. One can only imagine the consequences if Gmail or Google were to get hacked.

Office tech guy: Sab log, Google aur Gmail ko band kar do varna computer aapka khatam ho jayega. (with absolute conviction)
Me: Huh?
Office tech guy: Madam, please google ko band kar do.
Madam: Magar, hum konsa search engine use kare?
Office tech guy: Aap, bus band kar do...varna aap ka computer band ho jayega, aur UPS bhi kharab ho jayega.
Madam: theek hai!

She promptly closes all her browsers and awaits further instructions.

I couldn't believe how this man could stomp around office with the utmost confidence and conviction as if he was a direct victim of this problem.

Nowadays propaganda and negative advertising doesn't need anything more than a wish guarantee for it to reach your mailbox no matter where you are. And to think... people would slowly start realising that these wishes will never come true even if they send it to 70 people instead of 7. But then again, I guess everyone is just looking for a free something.

Over the years, I've received forwards subtly inciting racism, hatred, false prayers etc, apart from the usual funnys that one should receive sometimes. Today, propaganda doesn't require cheap paper pamphlets to be dropped out of the B.62 Bombers anymore, all you need is a couple of emails and a wish promising the reader anything provided they forward it to 7 people. It's like they hold your wishes to ransom. Forward or else...

Next time I want to spread my word I think I know how.

Okay, so now make a wish, anything you want.

Now forward this to 7 people if you your wish to come true in 7 days.

I've tried this before and it works all the time. You have to too. :)