Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange

Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange
(New Scientist)
Forwarding a genuinely amusing or interesting link to a friend, for example, shows that you are thinking of them and are aware of the sort of content they like, Gross says. But passing an irrelevant or out-of-date link on to contacts can be annoying, thus lowering the sender’s social status in the recipient’s eyes.

So, watch it, you laggards!

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