Since many years, chainletters are a challenge for rather young whatsApp users in Austria. These chainletters threaten with monsters sleeping under the bed, having the kids parents die or being hunted by ghosts. But they alsosuggest that nobody likes them, if they don't get chainletters themselves in WhatsApp. Chainletters in WhatsApp is usually ignored by surrounding adults, because it is such an old phenomen. Therefore kids feel alone with their lacking competence to judge the content. The chainletters cannot be procecuted by law, since it is never clear who is the author originally.
Since many years, chainletters are a challenge for rather young whatsApp users in Austria. These chainletters threaten with monsters sleeping under the bed, having the kids parents die or being hunted by ghosts. But they alsosuggest that nobody likes them, if they don't get chainletters themselves in WhatsApp. Chainletters in WhatsApp is usually ignored by surrounding adults, because it is such an old phenomen. Therefore kids feel alone with their lacking competence to judge the content. The chainletters cannot be procecuted by law, since it is never clear who is the author originally.
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