I have a little blog. When I say little, I mean tiny. I mean, I post occasionally, and very rarely, and no one ever reads it. No one. It's a lot like shouting down a bottomless pit sometimes, and that's just the way I like it. Well, if occasionally someone would shout back, I guess that'd be okay too. However, when I hear that voice come out of the abyss, to echo back that I do in fact exist, I would hope it wouldn't be telling me that zithromax is the answer. Welcome to the wonderful world of blog spam -- it's no longer just the venue of email!
We're all familiar with the pitches. We wade through them in email every day. Offers for viagra, refinancing, credit cards, penis enlargement, HGH, oh my! I don't even know what HGH is, yet someone is there, ready to let me know and set me up with a prescription on the spot, so long as I feel comfortable putting in my credit card number on an unsecured web site posting to China. What a wonderful world. Let's not forget getting your diploma. We say the offers to people we know, and they laugh and nod knowingly. We've seen the offers. We all have. Is it just me, or do spammers seem to focus on men? How odd, since women get the offers too.
So why is it such a surprise to me to see it show up on my blog? Well, for starters, I have no visitors. I mean, none. I never promote this site. I don't submit it to search engines. I drop it into some pings, just for the hell of it, so that when I do shout into the abyss, I run into the small chance, the very small chance, that someone will answer. This is all fine and good. I accept these terms.
Yet, then there are the people who come in and decide, what the hell -- let's throw an ad in this blog. Perhaps it's my fault; I use blogging software that doesn't require registration, and has no validation. Yet, as noted above, I get no traffic. There is no reason for someone to insert ads into my blog. It wouldn't make sense.
So along comes this guy, sailing in from 217.26.244.10, deciding that this may be the most awesome place ever for his little spam. Woohoo! The legions of 0 users will be sure to check that out! Plus, it's so enticing -- why wouldn't I want zithromax already? I don't know if that's just how they do it in Spain (where the IP appears to originate at the time), but this just seems silly.
Congratulations, spammers, you've entered a new world of annoyance! I'm happy to see that they're continuing to remain cutting edge. Now I can look forward to seeing your wonderful, informative advertising while visiting my favorite blogs! I'm so looking forward to losing ten pounds in seven days while waiting for my ink cartridges and cialis, that I forgot to get my free warranty quote.
Couldn't you spammers at least engage in entertaining and edifying conversation while pushing your wares? It seems that would at least be paying your way. It might also actually make sales, rather than just providing broadband annoyance.
Take that, abyss! Let's see if it answers back with something other than an offer for levitra.
Posted by John at May 4, 2004 10:43 PM | TrackBack