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Dictionary.com defines authenticity as “The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine.”

Sticking with the email theme for another day, there is another area that gets me upset. For awhile there were numerous emails circulating saying this was a virus, that is a trojan and so on. The odd one was true, but the majority were just hog wash.

Now it is on to other things and the list is growing every day, and many forward these without a care or thought.

False Email Information - Don’t use your remote to lock your car because scammers can steal the code and break into your car. That may have been possible when they first came out, but not very likely today.

Then avoid certain products because they are manufactured somewhere where safety is ignored - you can tell by watching for certain digits in the bar code. This turned out not to be true. Bar codes tell lots, but not where a product is made necessarily.

Another circulated email said to avoid certain products because they are not made in our own Canada, with certain retailers being named as being good or bad. For example one email said Colgate toothpaste was made in Mexico. Maybe so, but I have several tubes here, bought at the store mentioned, and it says made in Canada.

Check Before Forward - These things are so easy to confirm before you go bouncing it off to all the people in your email address book. Use Google, Yahoo, Bing, any of the search engines to do a little research. You will soon find what is and what isn’t. Or take a look at the products in your own cupboard to see where they made. Look at the labels when you are shopping.

But for goodness sake, quit forwarding these stupid emails without taking the time to check whether they are true or not. I don’t want them and now the same ones are beginning to show up every so many weeks in circulation.

Talk about a circle unbroken…

-=One Day At A Time=-       (¯`·._.·ns¢ävË·._.·´¯)

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