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Back to top. Through several paragraphs, your mission becomes clear: Send a simple recipe to someone, put your name on a rotating list, and, in theory you'll get 36 recipes back. Marian Robinson of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, has been around long enough to know a sketchy letter when she sees one.
Robinson, who's in her 60s, remembers way back, when people would get paper chain letters in the mail -- proof positive that, though we think of this as a 90's throwback trend, people have been bothering friends and family in this manner for far longer. However, when Robinson received the recipe exchange email from her daughter in Los Angeles, it struck her differently. Also, this kind of letter is fun and harmless. There was no threat. She sent her mother's recipe for simple Hungarian noodles with cheese, along with a little story about what the dish meant to her family.
Sarah Robinson, Marian's daughter, has received no less than six chain emails in the past few weeks from friends all over the globe asking for recipes and inspirational quotes. Some she ended up responding to, and has actually gotten responses back. Others she left unanswered purely because she didn't have the energy to respond to so many. Why everyone's suddenly baking bread. Robinson also got another curious round of chain messages on Instagram, asking her to participate in a "follow loop.
Then, the fine print: Follow accounts on a list, add yourself to the top of the list and forward. There's a psychology behind it. Are you getting the idea? Double the figure for additional names you send letters to. It is all legal. Join the program, and keep percentages rolling. This is better known as a pyramid scheme, which the postal service made illegal after enough letters requesting money made their way through its offices. Around a decade and a half ago, MySpace was the top social networking site; one of its features was an area for bulletins — reminiscent of those BBSs in the early days of the internet — that were immediately visible to all of your friends on the site.
Chain letters, naturally, proliferated there because they were uniquely suited to the format. Instant distribution ensured that death hoaxes e.
The format underwent another change afterward, when chain letters collided with meme culture. All this, of course, only happens because having superstitions is a part of being human, and those irrational beliefs come from our biological ability to recognize patterns.
That propensity to recognize patterns, he posits, is the reason humans are so cognitively sophisticated.
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