10.        CAPS LOCK used unabashedly

9.         Multiple unnecessary exclamations!!!!!! or question marks???

8.         Addressed like formal letter: Dear (insert name),

7.         Call to ask you to confirm that you received the “e-mail”

6.         Everything is somehow worthy of forwarding. Coupon, Joke, Penis Enlargement

5.         Definitely from an AOL account

4.         Gets addicted to using thes icons: 🙂 whenever possible

3.         CCs all the people the gossip/date content of email is about

2.         You receive the email duplicated because they still think you “double-click”

1.        Signed, your mom