Comments on: CyberNotes: Is that Forwarded Email Fact or Fiction?

By: Angelsmom

Angelsmom — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:47:09 +0000

I still have not been able to find out …how I can find out if a email letter content is true or false.
I have subscribed to both CyberNotes and Snoops.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:26:14 +0000

Ryuu wrote:

I take most things I read on the internet with a grain of salt, but my mother believes anything she gets in an Email. The last one she got was about getting cancer by microwaving food in plastic containers. A quick search on Snopes proves it false. A definite bookmark, for my mom at least. Thanks

My mother and mother-in-law are the same way and it can be a little frustrating!

kiltboy wrote:

I can’t count the number of times I’ve responded to gullible people who forward emails like this with a link to snopes and a comment to check it out before emailing your entire address book and within a month they’re sending another email with a different story. The best is when they send me the same stories that were circulating the net 10+ years ago. :twisted:

I've also been known to research these topics myself and then send my findings to the person who originally sent the email. It drives me crazy knowing they actually believed what was in the email.

Carl wrote:

I like snopes.com but the use of little red and green balls to identify true and false is impossible to see if you have trouble seeing color. 97% of people who don’t see color well can’t tell red from green. This is well know and in any decent book on web design, so for a sight that’s been around as long as they have it’s inexcusible.BUT other than the fact that I can’t tell true from false I love the site.

It makes you wonder why they used red and green for stoplights then, doesn't it?

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:41:47 +0000

I like snopes.com but the use of little red and green balls to identify true and false is impossible to see if you have trouble seeing color. 97% of people who don’t see color well can’t tell red from green. This is well know and in any decent book on web design, so for a sight that’s been around as long as they have it’s inexcusible.

BUT other than the fact that I can’t tell true from false I love the site.

By: kiltboy

kiltboy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:09:35 +0000

I can’t count the number of times I’ve responded to gullible people who forward emails like this with a link to snopes and a comment to check it out before emailing your entire address book and within a month they’re sending another email with a different story. The best is when they send me the same stories that were circulating the net 10+ years ago.

By: Change

Change — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:15:33 +0000

Thanks, this will come in handy when educating people who forward mails like that without thinking. Usually I found what I needed by searching Google on a quote from the email, but this will at least be a good source to fall back upon

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:00:03 +0000

There’ll always be a large number of gullible people in the world. It’s just the way life is.

By: Ryuu

Ryuu — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:13:50 +0000

I take most things I read on the internet with a grain of salt, but my mother believes anything she gets in an Email. The last one she got was about getting cancer by microwaving food in plastic containers. A quick search on Snopes proves it false. A definite bookmark, for my mom at least. Thanks