I did not join Facebook until a few months ago.I avoided it because I knew what it was, but could not think of any reason for me to use the service. Up until a few months ago, I could not think of anyone I wanted to reconnect with.

Then it happened. I was chatting about the past and things started coming up in conversation like “What ever happened to…”. You know those questions right? Well, Facebook can answer many of those questions, and open many more. So I joined, and “reconnected”.

I reconnected for a few weeks then got bored of it. Did not take long to burn through all my burning questions from days gone by. The fire died down, and now all I do is log in from time to time to mostly play the Facebook Apps. Love the movie trivia.

I had a new friend request today, so I logged in and did my thing. But before logging off, I clicked a link and was brought to a business sign up page. I knew there were bands, artists, and business etc on Facebook along with all the personal stuff, but I never thought about adding my own. I originally intended to keep Facebook personal, and not intertwine my business with it.

Now I realize I was an idiot. Facebook is wicked for personal stuff. But just as good for business marketing. Super simple to throw up a business page. In 15 minutes I had a page created with 3 of my portfolios added. Simple and a great way to reach more people with my work. Great idea.

Now I will be logging to Facebook more often, for more than a quick game.
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I hate spam, and anything that looks even remotely similar. Not unusual, I am sure 99.99% of the population hate spam. I hate junk mail too, but at least the post office gives you a way to opt out of most of it (Red Dot - http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/).

Email spam is pretty bad lately. Spam Assasin deletes a large chunk of it before it even makes it to my inbox, but there is still a lot that makes it through, which Thunderbird dutifully scans and deletes. Still a little trickles through, which I durtifully mark as junk and delete it. Annoying process nobody should need to go through.

Here are some interesting stats from Spam Assasin on 2 of my accounts:

- Messages learned: 21218 as spam, 3685 as non-spam, 24903 total.
- Messages learned: 12492 as spam, 436 as non-spam, 12928 total.

Those are some crazy numbers, especially since they are probably only a year old. And they are from only 2 of my accounts. Of those nearly 34,000 spam messages, I have not read 1 (except subject lines), nor clicked any links, nor bought anything from them. Despite this, I know this will never stop.

All attempts to get me to respond to junk mail have failed, just like it fails for most other people. So why does it not stop? Because there is always the 1 in a billion chance some poor schmoe will fall for this crap, and make it worth while for the spammers. I dumb shmuck ruins it for the rest of us.

Aside from emails, blog spam is the next up on the crap block. There is only a super small percentage of blog comments that are real. The rest is spam. It is a wonder why most bloggers even bother enabling comments.

Speaking of which, comments closed.

Myles

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