Monday, April 07, 2008

Is that Forwarded Email Fact or Fiction?

I've used Snopes.com for a long time. It's one of the best reference sites on the Internet, particularly for determining if Uncle Louie's latest email that proclaims that reusing water bottles will give you a horrible disease. This page, Is that Forwarded Email Fact or Fiction?, from CyberNet, provides good guidance on how to use Snopes.
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2 comments:

  1. eba6:56 AM

    Easier even than scrolling through their categories and, as in the article's example, matching lipstick to toxins, you can always use the Snopes search feature. I generally cut a short phrase from the original piece and paste it right into the Search field. I almost always get directly to the article I'm looking for. Thanks for this public service, K.

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  2. Anonymous10:51 AM

    I guess I've got a pesemistic view of things - I just ASSUME that a forwarded email is fiction, but perhaps a good story.

    I've not looked into Snopes for this reason, but I'll have to check it out- my mother and her friends are always into those forwarded email stories and they seem to be a large topic of conversation among their group. Not to mention that I'm getting sick of hearing 'forwarded email' sermon illustrations.

    Thanks for the post!

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