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03.29.2007

Build it and spam will come.

Any­time any­thing gets pop­u­lar on the web, spam­mers exploit it. Case in point, I received a friend request from some­one last night who’s sole pur­pose on Twit­ter was to show which chores they were work­ing on, and pro­vided a link to a web app they were pro­mot­ing to help keep track of their chores. Umm, why would I want to read that? No thanks. Some peo­ple are a lit­tle more covert about it. One guy I was sub­scribed to started inno­cently enough… but then there was post after post about vis­it­ing a cof­fee shop and check out the cof­fee shop web­site and check out this blog and… Had to remove that person.

MySpace is infested with spam. Try view­ing any bands’ MySpace pro­files with­out wad­ing through dozens upon dozens of “com­ments from friends” try­ing to solicit peo­ple to sign up for a VISA card or whatever…

YouTube is get­ting awful as well. No one cares about angels sleep­ing, or any of your retarded chain let­ters. No one wants to watch your video to learn how they can make money.

Stop breath­ing my air you ven­omous blood­suck­ers! There are plenty of legit­i­mate adver­tis­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties that are out there if you are, in fact, run­ning a legit­i­mate busi­ness. The fact that so many of these idiots think its okay to try and sneak adver­tis­ing into com­ments really blows my mind. Do you hon­estly believe I’m going to click your ads or respond to your chain letters?

Think again.

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2 comments on “Build it and spam will come.”

  1. Posted by Matt (mithrill) on Friday, March 30th, 2007.

    It’s a mys­tery to me that spam­mers actu­ally make money from their ridicu­lous ads. It is hard to believe that peo­ple click on that stuff.

  2. Posted by Chris Harrison on Saturday, March 31st, 2007.

    Yep… the prob­lem are the stu­pid peo­ple that actu­ally click on the links… One pur­chase makes spam­ming thou­sands of peo­ple worth it. And if they can get enough suck­ers to click and buy, it’s enough fuel to keep the spam­fire burning…