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I thought today would be robocall-free, and said so on Facebook.\u00a0 An hour later one of my little Facebook friends reported getting one.\u00a0 So much for that theory.<\/p>\nI thought today would be robocall-free, and said so on Facebook.\u00a0 An hour later one of my little Facebook friends reported getting one.\u00a0 So much for that theory.<\/p>\n
In three years of using one, I’ve received not one sales pitch, robocall, or charity solicitation on my cell phone.\u00a0 Not so my landline, which has become such an unwanted-call magnet I no longer answer it.\u00a0 But friends tell me their cell phones are not immune and that I won’t be able to hide forever.<\/p>\n
I’m starting to see sponsored posts — advertisements formatted to look like regular posts, just like they’ve been doing in newspapers for years — on some (formerly) favorite blogs.\u00a0 Earlier today someone on Twitter was bitching about sponsored tweets.\u00a0 Damn, sponsored tweets?\u00a0 I thought Foursquare would be the death of Twitter.\u00a0 Shows you what an optimist I am!<\/p>\n
Just today I put a new widget on the left sidebar to show what I’m reading on my Nook.\u00a0 Now, when I mouse over the word “Nook” in my previous post, a sponsored popup appears.\u00a0 That’s the absolute last thing I want to happen, and I think I’ll have to ditch the widget.\u00a0 Ditch the widget.\u00a0 I like the sound of that.<\/p>\n
Not a day goes by two or three spambots don’t register at my blogs in order to post comment spam.\u00a0 So far the spam filter’s caught them all.\u00a0 If they were human, and not bots, they’d be smart enough to evade the filter, and then we’d all have to give up blogging . . . or maybe not, witness Twitter and Foursquare.<\/p>\n
As bad as all this is, it’s nothing compared with the pure evil of pharmaceutical advertising on TV.<\/p>\n