Monday, June 20, 2005

The Power of a Click

Before you go through this post please visit http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_zero_gravity_pen.htm .

Now this better explains the purpose of this post . A few days back I received this crazy forward of the proposed Infy Manglore campus . Being vetti for more info i googled the image and found that the pics were actually of an amusement park coming somwhere in some other part of the globe. What is really strange , I had recieved that forward from friends who did not even work in Infy and I was really amazed and empowered at the power of the "click" of the mouse button . Do we actually bother to check the forward before sending it across to alnost everybody on our mailing list ? Nope. Who has the time , right .

This is not all . All those forwards that tell you that i need AB+ blood or showing an innocent pic of an ailing kid and asking for help are internet hoaxes . If this is not all , the Bhagat Singh forward which came back to all of almost after a year of its origin really sets the alarm ringing!!

Please execrise your discretion when you send a forward next time.

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Blogger amitabh biyani said...

Hi,
I agree this can be dangerous and lead to defamation. Eg:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/tommy-hilfiger-rumour.html

and

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa121698.htm

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