Slush and spam
Sometimes, my own actions or inactions are a mystery to me, and occasionally, I find out quite a while later the reasons behind why I might have done something or not. Such is the case with spam filters - I have never filtered out spam from my inbox. Not yet. Only just the other day I realised the basis for this - I have found that the spam flowing though our private inboxes daily provides a kind of reflection of our society and its sentiments.
Think of the number of spam emails one gets everyday - advertising sex, money-making opportunities, web services (well, I get these anyhow), or services to disclose email addresses to you so that you can send others spam to tell them about your ideas, your services and what you can sell. Marketing, money, and sex. Well, mostly money and sex.
I received one the other day with the subject: "It's Called Freedom". Have a read:
Do you struggle to pay the bills and buy groceries for the family at the end of each month? When asked to go out to lunch or dinner, do you make excuses with your friends because you're short on cash? Do you find yourself counting down the days until your next paycheck? If you've answered yes to any of these questions , you suffer from "too much month at the end of the money"!
How would it be to never have to worry about cash flow? Picture this, when you see something you want you just buy it because you're not worried how it will cut into your budget. If you want new clothes, a gift for someone special, or even a new car, you know exactly what it takes to make it a reality. If you like the sound of this, I've got a home-based business opportunity to share with you. Interested?
So it takes someone with a good marketing sensibility to pen the above spam, but yet for him or her to have written it, it must contain a certain amount of truth. It would be unfair of me to make a generalisation of our society just based on the junk mail we get, but I can't help wondering if it's all good news.
Posted by sniffles at November 08, 2002 12:08 PM