Students send and receive forwards--rarely laugh.
Maria Schmitt
Issue date: 11/6/08 Section: Focus
There are still irritating people in the world.
You know, the kind who forward you e-mail and text messages.
A lot.
Freshman Courtney Gushrowski said she receives forwarded texts with pictures of a dead person's face and other grotesque images one or two times a week.
"I have gotten them a lot," she said. "It's a strange number and when I call or text them back they don't respond."
Gushrowski said when she has sent the sender a text asking their identity, the sender responds with the same question.
She said the texts, while sometimes gross, don't irritate her much.
"The one with the creepy dead person was a little disturbing," she said. "The funny thing is that people actually believe their love life is going to change if they don't send them."
What she finds especially strange, she said, is that she got a new phone number just before coming to Hillsdale.
Stephen Schocke '08 is on the other end of the chain - he forwards e-mails to his friends often.
"When I find something that amuses me I send it to all my friends," Schocke said. "The main list is like 20 people."
Schocke said he sends his friends anything from pictures to jokes to videos, usually of people getting injured.
"There's one called 'kid bikes into pole' which is pretty self-explanatory but the best part is that right before he hits the tree, he shouts 'Dad!' " he said.
He sends the e-mails whenever he stumbles across something interesting, which could be as often as twice in half an hour or once a week.
Senior Tom Thistleton said he began the tradition during the summer when he sent a link to 15 of his friends.
While most just read the e-mail, Schocke decided to continue the chain.
"Schocke kind of just went crazy with it," Thistleton said. "Now it's just a huge string of e-mails."
Schocke said his friend senior Tyler Walton, currently studying abroad in Argentina, is now generally the only person to respond to Schocke's forwards.
"I think we're up to 39 e-mails," he said. "We just keep forwarding stuff."
Thistleton said he doesn't get irritated by the number of e-mails from Schocke and Walton.
"It's not getting annoying, it's hilarious," he said.
How does Schocke decide what to send to his friends?
"If I laugh, I'll send it out," he said.
You know, the kind who forward you e-mail and text messages.
A lot.
Freshman Courtney Gushrowski said she receives forwarded texts with pictures of a dead person's face and other grotesque images one or two times a week.
"I have gotten them a lot," she said. "It's a strange number and when I call or text them back they don't respond."
Gushrowski said when she has sent the sender a text asking their identity, the sender responds with the same question.
She said the texts, while sometimes gross, don't irritate her much.
"The one with the creepy dead person was a little disturbing," she said. "The funny thing is that people actually believe their love life is going to change if they don't send them."
What she finds especially strange, she said, is that she got a new phone number just before coming to Hillsdale.
Stephen Schocke '08 is on the other end of the chain - he forwards e-mails to his friends often.
"When I find something that amuses me I send it to all my friends," Schocke said. "The main list is like 20 people."
Schocke said he sends his friends anything from pictures to jokes to videos, usually of people getting injured.
"There's one called 'kid bikes into pole' which is pretty self-explanatory but the best part is that right before he hits the tree, he shouts 'Dad!' " he said.
He sends the e-mails whenever he stumbles across something interesting, which could be as often as twice in half an hour or once a week.
Senior Tom Thistleton said he began the tradition during the summer when he sent a link to 15 of his friends.
While most just read the e-mail, Schocke decided to continue the chain.
"Schocke kind of just went crazy with it," Thistleton said. "Now it's just a huge string of e-mails."
Schocke said his friend senior Tyler Walton, currently studying abroad in Argentina, is now generally the only person to respond to Schocke's forwards.
"I think we're up to 39 e-mails," he said. "We just keep forwarding stuff."
Thistleton said he doesn't get irritated by the number of e-mails from Schocke and Walton.
"It's not getting annoying, it's hilarious," he said.
How does Schocke decide what to send to his friends?
"If I laugh, I'll send it out," he said.
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