Is it considered harassment to send someone a chain email?

Question

A girl we know threatened to call the "authorities" on us because we sent her a couple of chain emails. We didn't believe she really would, but we stopped anyway. Then a couple of days later she told us that she filed a police report on us. She never really had friends at school, and now I know why. Is it really considered harassment to send someone a chain email? About a dog?

Answer 1

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Yes, it is harassment if the chain letter contains anything of a threatening or overtly bullying nature, example: "Forward this, and you'll have 10 years of good luck. Delete it and you'll die at midnight, and I'll know you're not my friend!" What friend sends on this junk? Whatever the angle, all chain letters are manipulative crap. They play on every emotion from alarm to "Spread the friendship!" which you are not actually doing when passing on an impersonal forward you didn't even write. Your own words are always worth a lot more. Friendship chains have been clogging the internet for years. Chains have one goal only, to get spread around. So if it isn't harassment, it's at the very least, an annoyance and it shows you have fallen for a viral trick.
You realize anything that urges you to pass it on doesn't really come from anyone who knows you, it was originated by someone who just wants to get it mass-produced, and when you spread it, you've allowed yourself to get used in their viral scheme.
You know that alt f4 crush phone ring thing isn't true, right? You know Amy Bruce isn't going to die if you don't forward that sappy poem she didn't write, because Amy Bruce the sick kid doesn't exist? You know that you can help keep your kids safer by watching them and making sure hand sanitizers are out of their reach. You will not help kids stay away from things they shouldn't get into by passing on a chain that tells everybody to clammer to have whatever substance banned. You realize you won't prove how much you love Jesus or the moon goddess or whatever deity you believe in by passing on a chain letter, right? You realize that anti-immigration chain letter is full of misinformationn, and that thought-provoking missive has likely been sent to your friend by someone else 6 times within the past 2 months, right?
You know there are no flashing light gang initiations, right? You realize people have fallen for that chain hoax, passed it on and gotten themselves in trouble for using their work computers to spread this junk? You don't want to look like a gullible, inconsiderate jerk, right? Well then, don't pass on any chain letters.

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http://chainletters.pbworks.com

Answer 2

Think for yourself.... NO!!!!!!!!! The police won't do anything anyways, they would just get after the person stupid enough to send those stupid stuff in.

Answer 3

Yes I do believe it is