July 16, 2008
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Rant: Gotta Sec?
It’s Wednesday! Rant Day! I was looking forward to composing a long and vicious hate filled rant to counteract the excessive niceness and sweetness that I have been foisting upon you poor readers these last few days.
But alas, it’s late. I’m tired. And I can’t really think of anything good. So just a quick rant on a minor annoyance this week.
Yahoo Messenger!
Grr.
I’m have an account with every single IM service on the face of the planet. And they’re all fine. Except one. Yahoo!
Every time I log onto yahoo chat I get a message like this:
“Gotta sec?”
That’s the most common lately. But lots of other times it’s different. Sometime it’s like “How are you?” or “What’s up?” or “Long time no see” or “We need to talk” or “Hey, gotta minute?” or something like. It’s a random user name. Completely different every time. But the question asked is always the same. Or always similar. It happens whenever I log in. It happens all the time. Every. Single. Time.
Yahoo! For Yahoo! Yahoo! For Spam!
You absolutely suck! You’re a total abysmal failure of an internet protocol.
This pointless unoriginal, and uninteresting spam has got to stop. When I see it my eyes see red and I am possessed of an incredible urge to turn into the Hulk and lift up the bookshelf behind by computer and hurl it across the room. Luckily I control myself. But you’ll know when my will falters, cuz the next you’ll hear I’m in the hospital having thrown out my back. That damn bookshelf is heavy.
No here’s a tip for all you spammers out there so that you can avoid my outrage and disgust in the future. Make your spam messages interesting! Please! I’d rather you immediately accost me with an offer to make money on a porn shoot or beg me for my bank account number to help fund your guaranteed to succeed investment in gold minors in South Africa, or you know *anything* then that damnably boring uninteresting and tiring “gotta sec”. If you’re going to make it a generic greeting at least make it unique or uncommon. How about like: “Yo Dawg Wut da eff is hangin Nigga?” Or maybe “u der? txt me, l3ts tk!” OR maybe even greetings in another language: “Konichiwa!”
In short mix it up a little. Don’t bore me so much. I respect your right to earn well by praying on unsuspecting fools and being a bane to the entire internet community. But I cannot tolerate banal unoriginality! This must STOP.
This is your last warning Yahoo Spammers! Change your ways or it’ll be war! I will not rest until we have rid the world of every last one of you crap spewing, mentally difficient, pathetic wastes of human existence! That’s a promise.
Oh for a bonus rant for any D&D Players here’s a cool link I got sent that is a humerous rant about how utterly Crappy 4TH Edition D&D is: http://www.somethingawful.com/
d/news/dungons-dragons-4th. php?page=1 End Rant Mode
Comments (16)
AIM bots are super annoying. I should just get rid of them. -_-
Don’t have Yahoo, and this post doesn’t inspire me to get it… haha.
everyone needs a good rant, but here’s some advice never go on a rant in the middle of the mall, youget a lot of looks…
All I get are the “Somebody (or I’ve) kinda gotta crush on you. But you’re going to have to play my little game…click here.”
grrg
i get a lot of spam about swinger parties…and i think i recognize some of the names..
You tell ‘em!
That’s odd… I’ve had my yahoo account for over 9 years and have only gotten spammed twice. In all that time! Maybe you should reset your filter or something?
The one I have problems with is hotmail. I had to change my account because I got spammed on messenger a lot; I’ve had the current one for three or four years, and I get spam in my inbox every other day, at least!
Other than that, I don’t use IM…
@Punky13dq - Dude! Doesn’t that suck?!
I mean, people look at you as if they’ve never seen anyone get annoyed with stupidity before! *eyeroll* It’s pathetic, I tell you!
i don’t chat that much… i use to in college but now that i’m out working, i don’t have time to chat when i get home, it seems i’m super busy. when i do go into chat which is just AIM i always get like 10 people wanting to chat with me at once since I’m never on which is a little overwhelming and I try to talk to all of them and then 2 hours later I’m still talking to them and I need to do other stuff.
so it’s a catch 22 for me, i don’t log in because i know a ton of people want to talk to me, so i will be stuck there for a long time, but the only reason a ton of people want to chat with me is because i’m never on… *sigh*
@raindrops23 - whereas for me I’m always online and hence nobody ever wants to talk to me! Ha! At least I hope that’s the reason
Yeah usually I reach out to others to chat and if I haven’t seen them online in a long time I’m more likely to message them too. So I’d be contributing to your same problem!
I have had some really amazing conversations on aim or gtalk or msn and yes even on yahoo. The spam annoys me but I still wouldn’t give these services up for the world. But I also do a lot of email and xanga messages conversations too that are just as amazing. Emails and messages are nice though cuz I can schedule them. With IM if I end up in a long conversation, I end up losing track of time and not getting done any of the stuff I need to do.
Anyway, well, my username is nephyo on AIM, if you’re ever bored and online and want to chat look me up. I won’t message you though since I don’t want to contribute to your message flood. And of course just exchanging comments the way we do now is fine by me too.
@fullmetalbunny - you are very wise. aim bots are vile. and yahoo is useless.
@Punky13dq - LOL. That’s precisely why I have this xanga! To prevent my urge to start ranting in all kinds of awkward situations: shopping malls, doctor’s offices, in the hallway at work, in a random public bathroom, at the drive through at a fast food restaurant, or just stopping in the middle of the High Way to spew my rage filled rant at every car that speeds by.
Much safer to write!
@The44thHour - I’ve gotten those too. Yuck!
@duckling8912 - LOL. Good to know your network of contacts extends to the write groups.
@satanz_fave_daughter - change my what? i just signed up to chat with one person, and i’ve never touched a single setting. I sign on through meebo or pidgin and I just assumed ti worked like every other client. But every time I log in I get spam. Maybe the spammers have somethign against my username?
@nephyo - Haha maybe someday I’ll chat with you online, but seriously never on there anymore, i think the last time I logged in was over a 6 months ago, but I’m taking next week off from work so I might be on monday actually since my vacation won’t start till tuesday, I took monday off to “pack”. ^_^
@nephyo - Umm… You just have the messenger account? (for ONE person?!)
Maybe that’s the problem? I don’t know, but I know that Yahoo’s got a really good spam guard… At least it’s worked for me, like I said. And their filter, you report it once and never see it again.
Or, maybe your username is just to easy… I’ve always wondered how spammers got IM usernames. Someone told me once that they just type random things and hope they come up with a match…? Honestly, no idea, but yeah….
die spam die!
@satanz_fave_daughter - huh it’s the same username I use for everybody else so I don’t get that. And yeah even if I block somebody it’s just a different username IMing me next time. Maybe I’ll just drop yahoo one day.
@raindrops23 - I’m always online so whenever you want. Have a great time on your vacation!
@qccan - You tell that spam!
@nephyo - it’s not really a vacation, i’m going to comic con in SD in California because my brother is going to have a booth to show off the comic book he has made and he needs another person there to watch it when he gets bored and wants to cruise around the con himself. ^_^
@raindrops23 - That sounds a lot more fun than most vacations to me! Man I’d love to go to a Comic con. I hope you have a great time and that your brother’s comic becomes very famous and sells really well. ^_^