Snopes

Snopes Review


http://www.snopes.com



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2008 Advisor
LibbyMcMillan
Sanibel, FL

Is that email claim really true?

5 star rating

a travel junkie, inundated with email, a researcher
Pros

    truth vs. fear factor, easy to use, easy to share

Cons
    not everyone knows about it!

APR
20
2007


Do you wonder if dramatic email claims are true or false?

Surely you have heard that plastic in the microwave can kill you, or that Al Gore's house is an ecological disaster.  The list goes on and on, and includes some pretty scary stuff, as well as slanderous "information."   Some of it is TRUE and some of it is FALSE.  How do you which is which? 

Don't embarrass yourself!
Researchers and emailers in the know rely on the savvy folks at Snopes.com to keep them from making the embarrassing error of forwarding an urban legend on to their entire email list.  Sure, you want to save your friends from muggings, and cancer, and cars that blow up, and all the rswt of life's dangers.   But, you can't believe everything you read.

Some Stories Mutate
Some emails have been circulating for years, mutating into falsehoods that are just plain wrong. 
To find out if you're being had, simply go to Snopes.com and Search for the topic you've been emailed.  You'll be amazed, again and again. 

You'll be Doing Your Friends a Favor 
Got a couple of friends who repeatedly feel compelled to warn everyone about everything?   The next time they send you an Urban Legend, kindly write them and say "I checked this out on Snopes.com, and, in fact............."  They will be much more careful in the future, and may even realize that not all emails should be randomly forwarded as a "Howdy," however well-intentionted.  

The Bottom Line:  Libby Loves It! 

Last edited on Apr 26, 2007



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pitcherday wrote on Jun 15, 2009 at 1:36AM

Thanks for the review. I found this site in 1996, and I have told people numerous times to go there when I get an urban legend email. They even cleared up an email I got that said when purse snatchers were grabbing people whose purse's straps went diagonally across their bodies, they were getting decapitated. Thanks for the concern, but really? Snopes.com cleared it up! Love, love, love this site!

rudiqe wrote on Apr 21, 2008 at 8:21PM

Five things you never knew your cell phone could do e-mail. Are these factual?

OldHippie wrote on Jan 21, 2008 at 12:46AM

So many "falsehoods" on the Internet...so little time. George Carlin had this to say about imigration, or Bill Cosby said that. Most are WRONG, but your friends believe it to be true, just because it came in an Email. What's a lie & what's not? From Mark Twain... The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
- Mark Twain in Eruption

ladym33 wrote on Sep 3, 2007 at 10:54AM

Thank you for the information, I will be sure to go there next time I get one of those please forward emails.

elle2kids wrote on Aug 22, 2007 at 11:15AM

Great info!!! Glad you shared.

NikiTaylor wrote on May 22, 2007 at 8:40PM

I'm another Snopes fan. It's weird how intelligent people believe those emails.

Buggheart wrote on May 1, 2007 at 7:15PM

I love Snopes too. Few things give me as much pleasure as replying all to those awful email messages and pasting the Snopes debunking link in there.

kevin wrote on Apr 27, 2007 at 12:18AM

Totally agree...I use snopes to debunk those chain emails that my family is always sending around ;)

Jolie wrote on Apr 20, 2007 at 10:21PM

love this site!!!