Lately there has been a lot more spam in my life.
No, not that spam! Blog spam! Over the past few months spam has not only increased, but evolved. First off, let me admit that I do not understand spam at all. I don’t know where it comes from, who generates it or why it is beneficial to anyone in any context. This is also true for the spam in a can.
A new type of spam infiltrating my blog is flattering spam. I’m getting lots of messages (from robots?) kissing my ass. While this trend is less annoying than the usual five pages of German or opportunities to buy cheap ink cartridges, I’d still rather not have it. I got so bewildered by the number of messages stuck in my filter that I started reading them. And then I started laughing.
I wonder how you would got so excellent. Another thing I just want to imply is your Blog can be so perfect. – I love “would got”.
I not to mention my pals came digesting the excellent items on your site then quickly came up with a horrible feeling I had not expressed respect to the blog owner for those techniques. Our sincere apologies for not expressing gratitude to earlier. – Bow to me.
What liberating knowledge. Give me lbierty or give me death.
pleasing you just read something smart occasionally as opposed to the common crap mascarading for a blog on the internet – Oh yes spam, you would know something about crap on the internet wouldn’t you?
You have more uefsul info than the British had colonies pre-WWII.
Good way of telling, and nice post to obtain information concerning my presentation subject matter, which i am going to deliver in college. – That’s called plagiarism cheater.
Pin my tail and call me a donkey, that relaly helped. – I’m going to start saying this.
At this moment I am going away to do my breakfast, once having my breakfast coming yet again to read other news. – I like this one because it almost sounds like very proper speech until you remember what you’re reading.
An impressive share, I just given this onto a colleague who was doing a little analysis on this. And he in fact bought me breakfast because I found it for him.. smile. – Spam loves breakfast. We get it.
Just after looking throughout the internet and seeing views that were not pleasant, I figured my entire life was gone. . I don’t know what I would have done if I had not come upon such a thing like this. It’s possible to now look ahead to my future. – I am…the spam savior…?
Then there are random messages that have nothing to do with anything. This is the spam I really don’t understand. Where? Why? How? I want explanations!
a lot of varieties that any of us have, definitely the will be the bull terrier coz they’re just really cute,
baking cheesecakes is my specialty and i can bake them within 1 hour. – Perhaps you should audition for Iron Chef.
Sony has and always been the king of electronics. Especially TVs. 1-3 quarters behind industry? you are on crack? Compare sony’s 3d glasses to anybody else’ and then tell me who is behind on the technology.
i prefer velvet seat covers given that the texture is very special and i realize it’s very easy to clean,.
Your bowel habits could change in early pregnancy, about eight to 10 weeks after conception. – Note to self: avoid pregnancy.
That dinner looks great! It looks ill try making homemade chips because I have a massive amount whole-wheat pitas without the need of preservatives! Contain a great night, girl! – Everyone knows whole-wheat pitas don’t NEED preservatives! They are the most independent of all the pitas. And I’ll try to contain my night but I can’t make any promises.
Hola Juan!!! quiero ubicarte y no encuentro tu mail!!!! como hago? – This is one of my favorites. I went ahead and did not look up what it means. The exclamation marks lead me to assume this spam-bot is friendly.
I don’t look forward to spam like I look forward to my search terms but I’d certainly rather have spam compliment me than offer me Viagra.
I totally know what you mean! I get those same spam message and I don’t get it at all. Oh well! At least, like you say, it’s flattering.
Posted by Leah | January 15, 2012, 11:54 pmSo interesting — I never get any spam except messages trying to sell things: medication, jewelry, handbags, etc. Although sometimes I do get those obscure messages like: “This is good content,” and then it’s hard to figure out if it’s a real message or a way to get me to click on something! I think the funniest spam I got was one that said: “Are you out of time? Do you need a writer to write content for your blog?” Wait, huh?
Posted by Julia Munroe Martin | January 16, 2012, 4:07 amUnlike the intention, some of these spam comments made me laugh! A good way to start the day
Posted by Colline | January 16, 2012, 5:20 amhaha i love reading my spam comments. so are HILARIOUS
Posted by Lindsay @ The Lean Green Bean | January 16, 2012, 6:39 amMy husband gets the craziest spam messages, but I don’t get that many. After reading your post, though, I sure do not feel left out!
Posted by Jolina Petersheim | January 16, 2012, 7:38 amhaha, loved this! “Pin my tail and call me a donkey, that relaly helped.” Can I start saying this, too? Hilarious.
Posted by The Simple Life of a Country Man's Wife | January 16, 2012, 7:46 amYes let’s all start saying it and let’s also start pronouncing “really” “relaly”.
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 16, 2012, 9:37 amI was going to do a post like this a couple weeks ago, but yours is much better, so I’m glad I didn’t. But I have to agree that when I’m having a crappy day, sometimes reading the spam comments really boost my morale. Here’s one from today, “There are some attention-grabbing time limits in this article but I don’t know if I see all of them middle to heart. There may be some validity however I’ll take maintain opinion till I look into it further. Good article , thanks and we would like more!”
The public has spoken…
Thanks for the laugh
Posted by Abby | January 16, 2012, 8:18 amThat is a good one. Sometimes I have to read them a few times to understand what they mean and then I feel like I’ve spent considerably too much time digesting this crap. But it does give me a little smirk now and then.
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 16, 2012, 9:42 amOh my gosh, these are my exact blog comments. EVERY. DAY.
Except…I also get some even worse comments every now and again…if ya catch my drift. So annoying!
Posted by Jodi @ Southern Flavored Life | January 16, 2012, 8:38 amHilarious! I am getting messages along the same lines too… Who in the world comes up with this stuff?
Posted by Lauren | January 16, 2012, 9:06 amThat’s what I want to know! Is it a computer or is someone actually getting paid to write this broken English babble?
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 16, 2012, 9:39 amHi Sara. I used to get tons of spam comments on my blog too, but then I installed the Akismet plug-in and it has all stopped! If you haven’t got it installed already, it definitely would be worth a try. http://akismet.com/ xx
Posted by Sharon | January 16, 2012, 9:42 amOh I have it. These are the message my spam filter catches. Thanks though!
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 16, 2012, 10:03 amYour commentary was hilarious (and the lovely grammar of most of the messages was quite entertaining, too).
Posted by Melissa Crytzer Fry | January 16, 2012, 9:46 amThe grammar is my favorite part because I think they are mistakes that never been made before.
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 16, 2012, 10:06 amLOL I get these a lot too! Some have been so flattering that I was almost tempted to approve the comment.
Enjoyed reading these!
Posted by Paula, The Geeky Shopaholic | January 16, 2012, 10:51 amI get these too. Thank goodness for filters, but they are good for a chuckle….
Posted by Leanne | January 16, 2012, 11:24 amI sitting here eating a bagel with cream cheese and snorting with laughter at your responses, Sara. Some of these are so funny. but it’s your asides that relaly slay me.
Posted by Cynthia Robertson | January 16, 2012, 11:27 amI relaly love it when I can make you snort Cynthia!
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 16, 2012, 11:41 amMan, the only spam I get are for penis enlargement pills and/or promising I’ve won millions of dollars. IF ONLY.
Posted by meleah rebeccah | January 16, 2012, 12:13 pmI get this weird spam too. I want to know who sends it! I mean, they are CLEARLY not even trying, would anyone fall for this/click the links involved??
Posted by forgottenbeast | January 17, 2012, 9:29 amMost of them don’t even have links anymore so what is the point?? And who does fall for that? Someone I guess..
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 17, 2012, 10:38 amI couldn’t agree more with that church sign. I try not to think about spam because it makes me homicidal.
Posted by Margaret (Nanny Goats) | January 17, 2012, 1:03 pmI know right? It’s such a perversion of the otherwise pure internet
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 17, 2012, 3:01 pmAskimet! you need it …it costs money but if you get it for a personal blog then you can select pay nothing
Posted by Ali Mc | January 17, 2012, 1:40 pmI do have a spam filter. These are the messages it catches. That would be nuts if these got themselves posted to the blog! Well kind of funny, but I’d be so pissed
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 17, 2012, 2:58 pmThis is lol AWESOMENESS! Thanks for writing this epic post
Posted by Elisa | January 18, 2012, 6:59 pmThanks for calling it epic.
Posted by StoriesAndSweetPotatoes | January 18, 2012, 7:31 pmHahahahaha! Or should I say jajajajajaja! (In Spanish)
That last one made me crack up so loud, even my husband in the next room was like, “What?! What’s so funny!”
The actual content isn’t that funny, but you’re right that it’s a kind spam-bot. He just wants to get in touch with Juan and can’t find his address. Oh no! What to do?!
Clearly, the solution is more exclamation marks
Posted by Natalia Sylvester | January 20, 2012, 5:23 pm