A research paper published two years ago claimed that the dissemination of chain letters on the Internet represented a new and unusual model of information diffusion. This week, another pair of ...

Chain letters hit the right chord of shock, or trigger the right degree of anxiety, which prompts the reader to share the stories or information they contain. To this end, chain letters are actually ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Chain letters are irritating, frustrating, and may be...illegal. In a chain letter I just received for the twentieth time, the author is a lawyer who says she was asked if a ...