Snopes Review

http://www.snopes.com

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LibbyMcMillan
Sanibel, FL

Is that email claim really true?

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

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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Comments about LibbyMcMillan’s Review

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!

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

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