Junk Mail for the 21st Century
I was reading a post by Yoda and got to thinking more about a subject that drives me crazy.
Junk mail.
I can remember as a kid wanting to receive letters. My parents used to always say how getting mail wasn't as great as it seemed. You were usually either getting a bill or junk mail. Once I got a little older I started getting mail. First it was Jr. Miss Beauty Pageant flyers. Then it was America's Top Student's books. Then it was credit card applications. Then Pulisher's clearing house found me.
Eventually I moved out, got my own place and my own phone. Then the telemarketers started. There was no do not call list back then.
Then the age of computers dawned and email began. Then junk mail in email form got it's own name....SPAM. Then there were pop-ups.
I can't watch television without commercials or rent a DVD without being forced to watch a promo for another movie. Advertisements are everywhere. Playhouse Disney is even sponsored by McDonalds.
I thought maybe, just maybe I could find one creative outlet where I could enjoy myself without ads or junk mail. No one to barge in and taint my happy place.
Nope.
Here's a small example of what I have received in the comments section of my blog recently....
Buy Moissinite. You'll love it.
Check out my Tanzinite website.
Hey love your blog....here's 6000 words on the timber industry.
....and they just keep coming.
Here's a small piece of advice for those of you who post ads on the comments section of my blog.
1. Don't try to get on my good side by essentially saying, "I like your blog now buy something from me."
2. No one wants to be Spammed on their own site.
3. It's rude.
Who knew I was such a bitch? Oh yeah, everyone.
That's all I have for now. Rant over.
Junk mail.
I can remember as a kid wanting to receive letters. My parents used to always say how getting mail wasn't as great as it seemed. You were usually either getting a bill or junk mail. Once I got a little older I started getting mail. First it was Jr. Miss Beauty Pageant flyers. Then it was America's Top Student's books. Then it was credit card applications. Then Pulisher's clearing house found me.
Eventually I moved out, got my own place and my own phone. Then the telemarketers started. There was no do not call list back then.
Then the age of computers dawned and email began. Then junk mail in email form got it's own name....SPAM. Then there were pop-ups.
I can't watch television without commercials or rent a DVD without being forced to watch a promo for another movie. Advertisements are everywhere. Playhouse Disney is even sponsored by McDonalds.
I thought maybe, just maybe I could find one creative outlet where I could enjoy myself without ads or junk mail. No one to barge in and taint my happy place.
Nope.
Here's a small example of what I have received in the comments section of my blog recently....
Buy Moissinite. You'll love it.
Check out my Tanzinite website.
Hey love your blog....here's 6000 words on the timber industry.
....and they just keep coming.
Here's a small piece of advice for those of you who post ads on the comments section of my blog.
1. Don't try to get on my good side by essentially saying, "I like your blog now buy something from me."
2. No one wants to be Spammed on their own site.
3. It's rude.
Who knew I was such a bitch? Oh yeah, everyone.
That's all I have for now. Rant over.
posted by Sherri at 7:21 PM
13 Comments:
funny thing is, i actually STILL love junk mail. not blog junk mail, but the kind in the mailbox that i can rip open, even when i KNOW it's garbage. i think i'm still in college mode where anything in the black hole that was my mailbox was worth a celebration. makes me feel connected to the world.
I think you noticed that I had about 8 junk mails in my last post, it's damn annoying. I'm going to have to switch on the confirmation thing so that it beat those "so 'n so's".
My daughter love junk mail, mainly the toy catalogues though.
Don't worry Sherri, no one thinks your a bitch for that opinion.
Well I'm in Australia and I continually (about 3 per month) get calls from India telling me I have been selected to get a complimentary trip to some place or other just by attending a 3 hour seminar.
And their connection is such that there is a good 5 second lag between the time I finish talking and the time they start talking.
It's gotten to the point where I don't bother with polite refusals. Tonight when one called I interrupted and very bitchily said "I know I have NOT been selected. Don't ever call again" and slammed the phone down.
So annoying!
hey, got to your site from rich girl poor girl. (and do I hear you're from qtown? holla! I'm in lansdale!!)
2 things. a) you can go into blogger to your blog's comment tab and institute one of those "type in the letters" thingie that authenticates comments, and b) I was at the movies last night watching that stupid giant commercial hype machine "the twenty" and they said something to the effect of "when we return..." -- that's right. there were COMMERCIALS in the commercial. like, the commercial which is "the twenty" was interrupted by other, smaller commercials. wwwwtttttfffff????
I too have suffered through "The Twenty." I am so SICK of marketing types assuming they know what's 'hip' and 'cool' and 'so very at the moment,' and then forcing it down the throats of EVERYONE.
Prime example: "I'm lovin' it." HATE IT! And then you pull up to the drive-thru at McD's because your kid is jonesing for whatever cheap toy they're offering this month, and you're confronted with their advertising banner featuring two thugs in a convertible, and this phrase: "I'll roll with it."
Very narrow marketing angle, spewed out all over the world. I'm just sayin', is all.
Yeah they just starting spamming my blog, i may have to look into trying to find a way out of that.
I love the blog! you know, i have been a member of bravenet for a long time now and never knew about the map! way to go.. thanks for the heads up!
No arguments from me there! I hate Spam. Spammity-Calamity!
I have an old hotmail account and all the spam I get is about enlarging a part of anatomy I do NOT have!!
I can't believe it!!! I got spammed on my post about getting spammed!!!!
Spam-a-lot! Just take your spam, slice into a few slabs and fry it up for a tasty treat!
I actually took all the spammers up on their offers and now have $15 million in the bank thanks to my friend in Nigeria, EEE breasts, a 4 foot penis, a home loan at a low, low rate, and free vacations to Panama, Europe and the Caribbean...
Giant breast and a giant penis??? Wow....how are you gonna fit on the plane to get to Panama, Europe and the Caribbean???
I hate that too. I got all excited when I had twelve comments on my last entry...and then I realized that four of them were essentially spam, so I deleted them.
I do like that you can "delete forever" the comments, though. That way, you don't have the "this post has been deleted by an administrator" thing going on.
Yeah, I am such a nerd...
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