Email Anthropology
This is interesting, forwarding emails helps to keep social ties intact. So, don’t be so judgemental when your friends and family send you such silly forwards (Even if you KNOW they are not true).
Click Fraud and Halli-Bloggers - New York Times
Benjamin Gross, a doctoral student in library and information science at the University of Illinois, has studied e-mail forwarding behavior through informal interviews. Mr. Gross, according to a report on the Web site of New Scientist magazine, “says forwarding e-mails plays a vital role in constructing and maintaining modern social ties, despite the phenomenon receiving scant attention from social scientists.”
