"This is a panty exchange!" announced the letter that came from a woman I hadn't heard from in months. Standing alone in my kitchen, I laughed out loud in disbelief as I kept reading -- I had been ...

Then there's the likes of Chain Letter, a teen-scream of the 21st century in which breaking an e-mail chain means certain death for a group of high-school friends. Each e-mail they receive--usually on ...

One day my friend sent me a chain letter ["Chain of Fools," May 23]. I had always heard they were bad, so I asked my dad if I could do it. He said it was okay but it wasn't the best idea I ever had. I ...