Bloody annoying e-mails

[Vengerak]

I checked my hotmail account today (mostly crap telling me people I can talk to on the phone have left me a message on Facebook or whatever) to see what was going on, and I had received 22 e-mails from companies promising me "perfectly made rolex replicas", herbal medicine that could drop 25 pounds off me in a month, cheap viagra, cheap prescriptions and...some things best not mentioned.

Now, I'm fairly certain I haven't Googled for fake rolexes or viagra any time recently, and even if I had, who are these people with their bizzare monikers e-mailing me all the time?? It doesn't seem to matter how many times they're blocked. Does anyone have this problem?

[Aqualis]

Holy crap! I just got a message selling me a cure for cabin fever (seasonal affective disorder)!!!

Other than that, most of mail seems to come in the form of facebook notifications. My wall is apparently where people go when they're bored. I average 10-20 a day.

[The Lady Shael]

I have Gmail, so most of my spam goes straight to the Spam folder. Maybe one will slip into my inbox every 5 months or so.

I wish people would post on my wall when they're bored. It would actually give purpose to me checking Facebook every hour.

[Gorak]

Ditto on Gmail
HotMail sells their customers email address's to spammers

and I don't even know what facebook is

[The Lady Shael]

Facebook is the more sophisticated version of myspace.  :-) Used mostly by college students.

[Gorak]

sounds like a waste of time for me

I have a Myspace account
I even log into it every other month

[The Lady Shael]

I used to log into myspace several times a day....I've given it up for Lent though. Partly in hopes that it'll break my addiction. So far it's working.

[Gen. Volkov]

Facebook doesn't affect my life, as with my Myspace account, I rarely log into it, I don't get how some people are addicted to it. It's not really all that interesting.

I do get tons of spam, but it's all sent to my gmail spam folder. (Quick check shows 146 spam emails since I last checked it) 2 made it to my inbox today, but that's unusual. I've stopped getting spam on my other email account. This is because I only use my gmail addy when I sign up for stuff that might sell my addy to other sites.

[Aqualis]

Myspace == Evil

[Vengerak]

Facebook doesn't affect my life, as with my Myspace account, I rarely log into it, I don't get how some people are addicted to it. It's not really all that interesting.

They become more interesting when people message you and stuff, and they only do that if you are interesting ;). ?I have nothing on Facebook--I've signed up for most of that type of stuff after being sent friend requests etc. though. ?Ringo, Facebook, myspace, WAYN... I only use one, and it's grown like a weed. ?I'm going to start putting my myspace together so I can transfer over to that.

[Gen. Volkov]

Oh, well, no hope for that. My life is tragically uninteresting. I also rather subtly discourage anyone from talking to me on those things by the simple tactic of not messaging anyone, and responding only in brief to messages sent my way. It may or may not be more interesting if people message you on it, but I don't find the concept very interesting in the first place, so it's kind of hard to get me interested enough to start actually being active on it.

[Gorak]

MySpace is incredibaly usefull for networking, for things like music and video
and me being a musician/actor/writer/animator, you'd think I'd acually use it for that

but I don't... yet

[The Lady Shael]

I shunned the whole myspace music thing for a while....and a couple months ago I caved and realized how useful it is.

[Gen. Volkov]

Meh, useful it might be, doesn't mean I'll use it anymore that I do right now. It's not that useful to me, personally.

[Vengerak]

It looks like you actually have relatively decent taste in music, Shael--although what Rihanna did to Tainted Love is unforgivable.