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Like half of the world's population, I have a MySpace account. On MySpace, your friends can post "bulletins" about whatever they wish to talk about. Many are "surveys" which people fill out - they answer questions about themselves so that anyone who reads it can know the person better.
Now, another large portion of the total bulletins posted there are chain bulletins. They take the same form as chain e-mails - "repost this or <insert whatever improbable horrible event you can think of here>". So people repost this bulletin without hesitation. The same goes for chain e-mails...but why?
Chain e-mails play on people's superstition and our basic human ability to make causal inferences and connections between events real, perceived and imagined. The other ingredient is fear. Just maybe, just maybe if I don't repost this bulletin or send this e-mail to everyone I know my mother will die at midnight! ...
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