Communication

[iCe]

My ISP has a great SPAM catcher but I have to check it every so often just in case something important gets snagged by mistake. I just finished deleting my usual round of 140 or so daily SPAM messages and it got me to thinking about all the things that I missed pre-internet

In the long ago snail mail days I never received mail from:

Christi- a 22 year old aspiring actress that lives in Los Angeles, CA and wants me to add her as a MySpace friend. Her 'naughty pictures" are available thru a link on her MySpace site

XYZ Agency that... if I just click here... and take their survey... will send me a gazillion inch plasma, high def, super new, state of the art television

Mugambo de Cortez Smith (can't remember the myriad of names so I made one up) who will gladly send me 8 million dollars US if I just send him my bank account information

Oddly capitalized persons name that wants me to come check out their phorn site... what the heck is a phorn?

Penis enlargement ads... I told her not to sign me up for those...

Notices that my account at Western Union has been placed on hold... I don't have an account at Western Union so I signed in as username: JimBob PW:youstupidbastard and I was rejected. Go figure.

I got a notice that the PW supplied by JimBob is incorrect

Tons of internet dating links featuring super hot 20 something chicks that can't wait to meet me I can't say that I blame them... but most live too far away so they continue to suffer. Poor girls...

and so on...

I feel so in touch with the people of the world thanks to the internet (which is in fact forcing our brains to rewire itself. We are wired for face to face connection. That's why we have avatars and self portrait threads are so huge. We have an innate need to make eye contact when we communicate so that we can literally "read" the other person as we speak to them. The "gut feeling" that we need is absent on the internet. The sterility of the internet bypasses our "high road" wiring. That's why some people, in the guise of "honesty" write rude or obnoxious things on internet forums or fall in love in 2 paragraphs or less or possibly even why we go off on diatribes about the way we communicate today . Their low road wiring takes over because the high road is confused by the lack if visual feedback from this "new" method of communication that it's trying to learn.). I see the internet as a good thing for the most part. Can you imagine having a TPF via the US mail? The internet brings with it some interesting social conundrums...

Now back to our regularly scheduled non-serious programming...

[Daniel Bates]

You know, I think the same girls that send YOU mail are sending ME mail. Dirty two-timers!

[Shelby Lane]

Wow, you have been thinking. :) It does add an interesting new twist to communication in general and building relationships in specific. It is an odd feeling to meet someone face to face for the first time, when you feel like you know them well already because you "talk" everyday. And taking all the visual feedback out of these online conversations can cause so many misunderstandings.

You just keep deleting those emails from the hot 20 something chicks. :)

[iCe]

[PictureCow]

WHO KNEW you were soooo popular! I want to get spam like you do!!! XOXO

[iCe]

Originally Posted by PictureCow

WHO KNEW you were soooo popular! I want to get spam like you do!!! XOXO

It's all a part of being a legend in my own mind

[Shelby Lane]

I don't know. I think you're pretty studly so I understand all the spam. ;)