What the fuck? Every time, I have to fill in a damn form. A web form. I recall my first web form is probably one at Hotmail.com. That is fine, really, it’s fine. I fill in the nice little form, I get something out of it – a pathetic 2 MB email. But really – it’s fine. At least I got something.
Today, I opened my Hotmail inbox, it’s now 250 MB. Thank you Microsoft, you have done something right finally. I see a bunch of spam! Not exactly spam. It’s people who are inviting me to Friendster accounts, myspace.com accounts, hi-5 account, some silly address book and many many many many many many many freaking many more.
I have to admit when I first heard of Friendster, I thought the idea was rather interesting. My friends invited me there. Then, my friends increase gradually. Now friendster says that I have 46 friends. That’s great because it means that I am popular. I recall MSN Zone saying something like – You have no friends – which totally destroy my day. I mean – I have no friends.
So every time people send me friendster invitations, I’ll accept it. Then people start sending myspace.com, hi-5 accounts. People ask me to tell them my birthday through some Birthday Alarm service. This is crazy. They could have just send me an email and I would most definately declare my birthday to be on October 24, 1985. And of course, I won’t forget to tell them that there is this DVD burner that I always wanted.
And today, the strangest thing popped into my mail! Some some updating address books service I think. My friends would send me an email. I click on the link and filled in my email address and home addresses. I don’t dare to reveal personal information to this strange company that I never heard before. Upon looking through their privacy policy, I realized that I “…agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize the Site’s content, layout, and services.”
But the thing that really made me thought “what the fuck?” is the fact that my friends are sending this email to collect my email? God damn it, compile your own address book!