While many Netizens claim they use the Internet to conduct business, further their education or research obscure information to broaden their horizons, there is a much greater reason for the hours upon end that Internet users spend online. The Internet's greatest commodity to pull users away from television and real-life conversation is the vast amount of entertaining content published online. A good portion of this entertainment is of a comical nature, and therefore, it easily permeates every corner of the globe.
Internet humor is widely popular because of the variety of shapes, sizes and subjects published.
One method of transporting laughter online is through email. Anyone with a personal email account knows that, in addition to advertising spam mail, humor via email is inescapable. Email users forward top ten lists, personal anecdotes, jokes, puns and just about anything that will produce a snicker or grin. Some of these forwards pass through the terminals of more than one hundred users. For those who are not yet receiving humorous forwards, there is hope.