Blogs and Spam
Oh what to do? What to say? I've been thinking on many things lately. Altogther too much to put to pen, or perhaps even touch upon. There are those day to day things, pointless and boring that aren't worth even writing about. Then there are those deeper, secret things that I don't wish to share, even those things that I couldn't even hope to voice. There are things that I even feel that I shouldn't be writing about at all. I don't like that I have to guard my feelings just to appease other people. But, being that LJ is a public place and I have of my own accord added people to my friends list; invited them to share in this little slice of my life, I suppose it would be irresponsible to be inconsiderate. Not that I have any particular person in mind, or that I'm mad at any of my friends. I'm just thinking on the nature of blogs in general. If you get mad at someone for example, and rant about it in your blog and they read it, they take it as a personal attack. Of course I can see both sides. On one hand, you HAVE them on your friend's list, you KNOW they are going to probably read your little rant, so you know that by posting it you're going to offend, yet you still post. In some ways, you have no room to bitch about them retaliating. On the other hand, you DO have the right to let off some steam. No one can deny or invalidate your method of venting through writing. It's unfair, especially if you're posting to a blog where you don't have a friends list, or they're not on it. I suppose it can be a double edged sword. If you're going to take part in the whole 'network' luxury and invite your friends to view your blog, you should at the very least be considerate enough to keep personal things about those people out of your writing. I think we've all come across blogs before where the author mentions specific people in a mean way, or even attacks them. We've all seen those blogs where comment wars and flaming erupts. Sure, sometimes it's not the author's writing at all. Sometimes it is. It just grates on me that there is no public venue safe from immaturity and idiocy. Message boards, IM's, blogs, even personal web spaces... it happens. People have to be petty and argue and try to get the one up all the damn time. Being that I've moderated at a large message board going on two years now, I see a lot of this first hand. Someone posts a topic and it can be some innocent thing like, "I love Bette Middler's music!" and some asswipe has to come along and go "You're a fucking faggot!" Next thing you know, the author is trying to defend themselves, other jerks jump on the "You're a faggot" bandwagon, and the flaming takes hold. It's just so....UUUuuuuuhg.... and people wonder why I don't like PEOPLE! I wish people on the net would grow up. You expect this shit out of children, NOT the adults that I normally see doing it. Look this did end up turning into a rant after all. A rant about those apparently adult people (often married and with kids!) that act like two year olds.
Yeah and another thing. Spam mail! Mutherfuckinrazzafrackin....
I don't sign up for ANYTHING with my email address unless I troll the disclaimer and they clearly state that they do NOT share emails with third parties. More often than not, I'll use an alternate email to sign up for sites. (Which I don't do very often!) Take LJ for example, no probs with them. My own message board even has its OWN email just to ensure that all the AlchemyX stuff is going to one place AND to keep my personal email free of garbage. About a week ago, OUT OF THE BLUE I start getting about 12-15 ads a DAY for things like cell phones, debt consolidation, secret shopping sprees, and internet cupons. I stared at them and went WTF? I didn't sign up for ANYTHING?! I think what happened is that someone I know signed up for something and it was one of those places that makes you plug in at least three thousand of your friend's emails, and they must have put mine in or just transferred their address book. OF course I don't know if this is the case, because I do know a lot of people. Fuck those sites! Talk about sneaky e-mail mining. Now I'm getting the same ads over and over again, with no recourse other than to have to block each one individually because they're all sent from different places. I'm going to have to change my address again. I don't appreciate this at all. So, as a consideration to others, and well, to me if you have my email address, please please PLEASE don't EVER give my address out to anyone or any site. I'm going to run out of acceptable versions of tiamot pretty soon.
Yeah and another thing. Spam mail! Mutherfuckinrazzafrackin....
I don't sign up for ANYTHING with my email address unless I troll the disclaimer and they clearly state that they do NOT share emails with third parties. More often than not, I'll use an alternate email to sign up for sites. (Which I don't do very often!) Take LJ for example, no probs with them. My own message board even has its OWN email just to ensure that all the AlchemyX stuff is going to one place AND to keep my personal email free of garbage. About a week ago, OUT OF THE BLUE I start getting about 12-15 ads a DAY for things like cell phones, debt consolidation, secret shopping sprees, and internet cupons. I stared at them and went WTF? I didn't sign up for ANYTHING?! I think what happened is that someone I know signed up for something and it was one of those places that makes you plug in at least three thousand of your friend's emails, and they must have put mine in or just transferred their address book. OF course I don't know if this is the case, because I do know a lot of people. Fuck those sites! Talk about sneaky e-mail mining. Now I'm getting the same ads over and over again, with no recourse other than to have to block each one individually because they're all sent from different places. I'm going to have to change my address again. I don't appreciate this at all. So, as a consideration to others, and well, to me if you have my email address, please please PLEASE don't EVER give my address out to anyone or any site. I'm going to run out of acceptable versions of tiamot pretty soon.