venting here because y'all will understand

In the time since my assorted family members have gotten online, I've been urging them to use www.snopes.com to check out the various and sundry emails that get passed around, usually with bright flashing colors and huge fonts, proclaiming something to the effect of OH NOES THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END. So very many of those are false, false, FALSE, and it's so easily checked.

Do they check? Well. I finally got my mom and sister trained (to at least have ME check if they don't want to). I finally got my mom's cousin to remove me from her "send to everyone under the sun" list for forwarding them.

I can't seem to get it through to my aunt that JUST because someone forwards it to her doesn't mean she shouldn't check it out before sending it on to everyone in her address book.

The latest one is the "ON NOES THE EVIL GOVERNMENT REMOVED 'IN GOD WE TRUST' FROM NEW DOLLAR COINS! REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEM! BOYCOTT THIS! WE'LL STAMP THIS OUT AND GET THEM OUT OF CIRCULATION!" *headdesk*

Thirty seconds after I got it I'd checked Snopes (it's false) and sent the link to everyone my aunt had forwarded the original message to. I probably had that done faster than the time it took her to add everyone from her address book.

*WHY* is it so difficult to get people to check things before hitting 'forward'???