Dear Mr. Allen Smith

Dear Mr. Allen Smith,

Whoever you are, you sure are great and I do look up highly upon that. You not only control the world renowned friends network Friendster but you also have control over major email service providers like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail. It is fascinating how you actually get to control three big companies all at the same time. You must be very stressed out.

Recently, I’ve heard from email forwards and bulletin posts that ALL your three companies are deleting all inactive accounts in all three service providers due to the sudden burst of sign-ups. I am drastically horrified to hear that your companies will be deleting all inactive accounts. I felt rather awkward, however, to the method your company is using to detect inactive users. I thought that service providers like Friendster, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail all uses state-of-the-art technology to provide high quality and excellent services to its users. On the other hand, your company is resorting to mail forwards and tracking them down to each and every user that forwards it to his or her friends.

I thought that in today’s modern world, computers and software are able to detect inactive users in just a press of the button at the finger tips. But it was and still is surprising that you and your company resorted to such old and obsolete method to detect inactive users. I do sympathise your company for not having the technology to do so which would have saved an age of time.

Moreover, I have been repeatedly receiving the message that your companies are deleting accounts and the message states that I am obligated to forward the message to as many friends as possible in order to keep my account active. However, I have not forwarded the messages that I have received, not once and I am amazed that my accounts in all three service providers are still up and running actively. As I could recall, I started receiving messages similar to those stated above since I could remember, which was a long long time ago. However, no action has been taken to delete my account.

I hope that your companies will soon upgrade their systems as it is obvious that the technology used by your companies is definitely obsolete. In this way, your company does not have to resort to traditional methods of tracking down forwarded messages to detect inactive users of your service providers. It is either that or you improve your services and provide more space in cyberspace to cope with the every increasing number of users in your million-user service provider. In this way, users will have to go through the trouble of forwarding messages that look like spam to their friends.

Thank you.

Friendster, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail user;
Qi-Guang.

The letter above tells you what is the situation currently happening in Friendster, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. Whoever this Mr. Allen Smith is, he is obviously not real as he controls three of the world’s largest network or service providers which have a chance of one in a million gazillion chances. And yet, people still are fooled by the forwarded message they received from their also fooled friend and they forward the message to other friends that are going to be fooled again where the process repeats itself again and again like a chain reaction.

One thing people, when you receive these kinds of messages, make sure that the message doesn’t look like a spam message because most of the messages I’ve received are messy with arrows that you get whenever you forward a message to another person. Secondly, don’t just read it with an empty mind, read it using your logical skills and interpret the message properly. If there is the slightest sign that your brain tells you that the message is actually a scam, you can just ignore it and delete it.

This situation once was such an annoyance that it really got on my nerves and posted a bulletin telling all those fools that it’s actually a prank. The situation finally improved for a short period of time. But then, peace doesn’t lasts for eternity and it comes back again! And again I have to post another bulletin to enlighten those annoying and brainless fools that are fooled by the prank message.

Well, to all of you reading this post, I hope that you too can understand that many messages that you receive are actually just nuisance and shouldn’t be taken seriously. So next time you receive a message similar to the message stated above in the letter, think before you do anything to it. Verify its authenticity then only you can forward it to your friends. Thank you for all your cooperation to make cyberspace a more peaceful place.