The Ever-Changing Landscape of Spam
Jan. 10th, 2006 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've gotta say, it's hard not to wonder why certain types of go in and out of fashion in one's mailbox. These days, marketers seem convinced that I'm not so much interested in enlarging my penis anymore, but would really be up for getting some "discount medz!" or meeting a nice young lady from Russia. Is this, like, a data-mining thing, in which something of my correspondence suggests drugs+Russian wife search as my interest areas, or are they just guessing? It's worth wondering, too, where the assumption comes from that only guys use email, because I'll be damned if I've ever seen a piece of spam that seemed aimed at a woman's interest areas... not that I'm particularly complaining about that. Maybe the "medz" thing counts as unisex. Marketing blows my mind, sometimes.
I'm honestly waiting for someone to write a book. Marketing through the ages. The kinds of stunts people play to sell each other something. There's a Sucker Born Every Minute with a mirror on its cover. Ye gods, what a fascinating topic. In the sense of, it's the 21st Century, and I'm not flying to Mars on a regular basis, but instead I've got this."
I'm honestly waiting for someone to write a book. Marketing through the ages. The kinds of stunts people play to sell each other something. There's a Sucker Born Every Minute with a mirror on its cover. Ye gods, what a fascinating topic. In the sense of, it's the 21st Century, and I'm not flying to Mars on a regular basis, but instead I've got this."
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Date: 2006-01-10 10:42 am (UTC)Maybe only men fall for them?
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Date: 2006-01-10 11:00 am (UTC)Sigh. Obviously my rage butons are set a little too high if advertisements piss me off, but...
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Date: 2006-01-10 11:19 am (UTC)I can't figure out why anyone would think I'd invest money with someone based on Spam; what kind of an idiot do they take me for? It may just be that our work spam filter just catches the penis enlargement/ russian brides spam better, but i have to wonder...
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Date: 2006-01-10 11:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-10 07:44 pm (UTC)This is one sociobiological just-so story that I actually buy: the female of the species is more businesslike than the male, especially if she's a mother. I'm happy to draw a link between my deadly-serious, smart, eerily responsible female cat and a mom going to the store with a copy of =Consumer Reports=, while my neutered male cat is just a lovable goof. Of course, this doesn't explain my other female cat, who makes both the others look like Einstein. And they're all alters who have never been bred. It's just... there's a recognizable look about a mom hunting down stuff for her family.
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Date: 2006-01-12 10:53 am (UTC)It's just... there's a recognizable look about a mom hunting down stuff for her family.
Oh, god yes. A serious lady on a sale hunt is like a jungle warrior tracking a panther. It's a mission.
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