Snopes Reviews

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...

Snopes.com is a great resource for debunking urban legends and hoaxes and scams.  I wish everyone would take a second and check Snopes before they forwarded an email or reposted a myspace bulletin. 

Snopes is quick and easy to use.  You can just type in a keyword and hit search and find whether your story in question is fact or fiction.  You'll be surprised how much of it is fiction (more than is fact most of the time).  Then you'll know the truth before you share the falsehood with everyone else in your address book or on your friends list.

If you've got time to kill, it can be fun to read...

To save myself from embarrassment, I always check with www.snopes.com on those "out of the ordinary" e-mails.   I believe that it is worth the short time it takes to look it up and check it out first before sending it onto anyone else.

When in doubt, check it out! 

There are too many emails circulating the web these days that are totally bogus. Whats worse is that so many people are fooled and forward them on to all their friends. Snopes.com is the best site to cure this problem! If everyone checked Snopes for the factuality of their emails before forwarding, the bogus emails would have a serious problem; extinction! Which would make the e-world a better place! ;)   It is also helpful in settling arguments, since many of those bunk emails get talked about in the real world too.. Seriously, this is one of my most frequented sites. It is very helpful and...

I highly suggest checking out snopes.com before you pass on some of the forwards in your inbox. When I receive forwards that can be checked such as amber alerts, animal attack claims, and alien sightings in Nebraska by a housewife, I always go directly to snopes before passing those emails on to other friends. Snopes will actually tell you if the email is true or false and where it originates from. Our inboxes are full enough of junk mail without forwarding false information for our friends to waste time reading. If you love to know everything about everything then you will probably end up...

First and foremost, I can honestly spend hours at a time on this site- that's how interesting it is. This site investigates everything that could possibly be called an "urban legend" and tells its readers the truth. However, this is not only a good way to find out whether that thing that supposedly happened to a friend of a cousin of a friend is true. It has information about, well, pretty much everything people are talking about. If you could possibly wonder "Is that possibly true?", you can find out on snopes.com. They've even thoroughly researched things like Barack Obama's true religious beliefs,...

Some of the rumors bantered about in emails now-a-days are ridiculous.  Using snopes.com, most of the time you can either verify or disqualify these rumors.  

Unfortunately, one of these rumors turned out to be true.  And he is about to become our President.  Copy & paste this link into your web browser... http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/anthem.asp

How can any candidate, during the playing of our National Anthem, forgot and/or refuse to place his/her hand over their heart?  (1) when the flag is displayed- (A) all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag...

Where can you go to find out if Paul Macartney really owns the rights to Happy Birthday? I love this site and have it bookmarked. The Urban Legands area is my fave, as it discusses a million different stories that we all know someone who knows someone who knows someone whose cousin experienced them first hand. It's interesting when legands turn out to be complete bunk, but even mor einteresting when there's a shred of truth in the stories that get passed around and seem so inplausible.

This is a guilty pleasure, but a harmless one.

This site should get more attention. It is great. You can check out all the scarey emails you get about missing kids, car jackings, killings in an area, what ever they might be 99 times out of 100 when i type the header of the email i get the scoop.

Usaully these stories are untrue and I can stop worrying. I also find out the origins and how the story started.

Read before you trust any of those insane emails you get.

This is a great site where you can check and see if the "warning" type e-mails you receive are true.  I am very busy, like most everyone else, and I don't have time to do extensive research about a new potential hazardous thing that could hurt me or my family & snopes.com allows me to check about these things quickly. 

I receive at least 2 email stories that seem made up per day. Snopes makes it easy for me to check whether or not they are true & let the sender know. The easiest way to share the info you find is to just copy & paste the link to the page in your reply email.

I received an email telling me about some guy that died at his desk during work.  Apparently he wasn't too popular because he laid there three days before anyone noticed he was dead.  That's weird, huh? 

One quick check on snopes, and I found out it wasn't true!  Imagine that!  An email that wasn't fact.  I know, it rarely happens.  :-)

If you hear a rumor, see a suspisicious email, or just want to browse some funny stories, go to snopes.com!  I've debuffed several articles & emails by just checking it out on this website.  The site is really easy to use.  Just search for what you're looking...

I have been using Snopes every since I can remember getting emails.  A few short months after I started using the internet and email daily of course I was hit up with email "chain" letters, scams, hoaxes and sob stories by everyone from a Nigerian who had a million dollars they wanted to give me to free gift cards from Applebees for forwarding this message.  A friend suggested using this site, and now, not only am I older and wiser when it comes to recognizing the email equivalent of junk mail, but I am also armed with one of the best scam detectors out there. 

Snopes.com is fast and easy to...