Wake up in the morning feeling like ...
So, I wake up this morning afternoon, rested after my night of debauchery* with a really cool fellow, and sit down at my laptop to write an entry about saving $14.70 on passport photos (I suppose I shall write it tomorrow, then), when I checked my email.
I know I'm not the only person for whom email is a first step, right?
So, I checked my email. And I had 30 posts from LiveJournal, almost all of them new friend adds. This, in itself, is flattering, but odd. I mostly don't promote myself. I just keep churning out educational content. And now almost 30 people want to read what I'm writing?
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By the way... Hi. I hope you like what I write. I don't do reciprocal friend adds, but will consider it if you post insightful and interactive comments on my posts.
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And there was one, lonely, little LJ message that said, "Your stuff got spammed."
"Oh dear," thought I, "I hope someone isn't misrepresenting themselves as actually being me and dropping a link to my entries wherever they can find space. How odd that someone would take it upon themselves to represent a perfect stranger."
So I log in to LiveJournal to go look at my statistics in order to figure out which post is being pushed, unnecessarily, so that I might take it down and print an apology to anyone spammed by it. But, before I can get there, I see this:
I was astonished. When you submit a question to Writer's Block, they do warn you that they might edit it, but I had no idea that they'd only keep the general idea. I submitted, "What five items do you always travel with and consider to be your travel essentials?" This is clearly not the same as the one attributed to me.
Nonetheless, the answers are mostly pretty cool, if a bit heavy on the rum.
*Why is the rum gone?
I know I'm not the only person for whom email is a first step, right?
So, I checked my email. And I had 30 posts from LiveJournal, almost all of them new friend adds. This, in itself, is flattering, but odd. I mostly don't promote myself. I just keep churning out educational content. And now almost 30 people want to read what I'm writing?
###
By the way... Hi. I hope you like what I write. I don't do reciprocal friend adds, but will consider it if you post insightful and interactive comments on my posts.
###
And there was one, lonely, little LJ message that said, "Your stuff got spammed."
"Oh dear," thought I, "I hope someone isn't misrepresenting themselves as actually being me and dropping a link to my entries wherever they can find space. How odd that someone would take it upon themselves to represent a perfect stranger."
So I log in to LiveJournal to go look at my statistics in order to figure out which post is being pushed, unnecessarily, so that I might take it down and print an apology to anyone spammed by it. But, before I can get there, I see this:
I was astonished. When you submit a question to Writer's Block, they do warn you that they might edit it, but I had no idea that they'd only keep the general idea. I submitted, "What five items do you always travel with and consider to be your travel essentials?" This is clearly not the same as the one attributed to me.
Nonetheless, the answers are mostly pretty cool, if a bit heavy on the rum.
*Why is the rum gone?