Thursday, May 12, 2005

The spam folder in my Yahoo Mail account adds a certain touch of excitement and intrigue to my life at 1 AM. Ranging from regarding/response ("RE:") emails from people I have never heard of much less spoken to lately, up to cryptic advertisements for porn. Yes, I know the message titled "Searching For Men" has been sent to me to alert me to the benefits of gay porn, yet in my current state of semi-awareness my imagination tries to inform me the same subject title means someone is trying to desperately recruit space marines to go fight invading aliens in the fringes of known space (plus they can provide means to get there!), or some Cyber-Punk mercenary hiring. Not to mention the thousands of emails with misleading titles trying to trick me into believing it was actually an old friend alerting me to a new event or special offer, being half awake this manages to partially convince me I HAVE that many friends in the first place, or that large companies want to give me outlandish prizes - such as paying my grocery bill for a year. Of course I still don't make the mistake of viewing any of these messages, but at the right time of night my junk mail convinces me I am the most spectacular and important person on the face of the planet, much less make my normal inbox seem downright dull.

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