David Seah is now quickly becoming my favorite way to waste time pretending to get more productive. In this one post though, he’s managed to find a solution to one of the problems still plaguing my friends and myself, whenever I invite an unknown into my digital circle of friends.
I hate chain letters because they’re thinly-disguised attempts to create something large on the backs of hundreds of strangers. There is, however, something magical about them; it’s interesting to think that a single person can send a letter to 10 people threatening them with misfortune…and be practically guaranteed that the chain will continue.
I got to thinking: If a chain letter can promise misfortune, what would be the most credible countermeasure? If people were making up their own chainletters, I figured that this gave me license to create my own magic certificate to draw on the power of like-minded people. And thus, the Chain Breaker was born. I call it the Certificate of Chain Letter Nullification.
Will it work? Probably not, but if nothing else, it’ll be fun to have, and hang on your wall.
