So, just over six months ago, I started writing this blog. I started it mainly as a means to get my thoughts onto paper in a more expansive way. I had been posting my opinions on my FaceBook page. I found that most of my “friends” did not chime in. Maybe they want to use FB to trade recipes or post inane pictures of bug-eyed cats instead of debating politics. Maybe they were in total agreement with me and thus didn’t need to respond. Maybe I intimidated them into cyber-silence like some type of digital bully. In all honesty, I think the first scenario is the most likely truth serum. They just want to use FB as a place to chat, to zone out, to post pictures–definitely NOT to think. I just had a different use for it, one that no one in my circle of acquaintances felt compelled to or desired to partake.
Given the deafening silence, I learned that I really had no important need to continue with FB. Sure, I enjoyed reading the cartoon-pictures posted by Ranger-Up. I liked reading the like-minded blasts of B. Hussein from the likes of Allen West (even though his posts came with a series of annoying pop up advertisements). Once I figured out that FB was not the premium way for me to vent, I went silent for 30 days. I didn’t post anything, like anything, nothing. I still read some of my liked pages, I just posted nothing.
During that 30 days, no one else sent me anything either. Nothing.
It was clear then, that as much as I didn’t need FB, no one in my circle of cyber friends needed me to have it either. So, for the second and last time during my life, I deactivated my account. I don’t miss it either. I’ve found I have a minimum of 45 minutes a day extra too, that I am not buried in my smart phone. (Having killed Words With Friends gave me back another hour or so.) What could you do with another 90 minutes or so every day?
I spend some of that time here. So do a few other people it seems. I don’t know a single one of them, and they are not interested in debate, becoming friends, meeting, or anything social. No, the only people thus far to respond to any of my 50-plus blogs are spammers. They are mostly interested in leaving poorly written remarks using a foreign version of clipped English without any regard to sentence structure…oh and a link to their blog or some virus infested retail link.
I had my site set up such that all comments left by a reader went into moderation. This was to prevent someone being able to hijack my site. Remarks were held until I read them and approved them to be posted. And, despite my telling my FB “friends” where they could continue to read my missives, none of though 60+ have done so to date. Instead I’ve gotten only comments from a litany of people that I have painstakingly blocked. Their remarks went directly to spam. It was a futile effort. They just opened a new sending URL and kept going.
Here is a list of “earmarked words” that would have caused a comment to go to the spam folder. It’s an impressively long list.
SeoOptimizationGuide.com/
xivtoyndox@gmail.com
173.232.105.163
sunglasses
SEO
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Ralph Lauren
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cheap jordans online
Cheap Nfl Hats
Jordan 10 stealth
garciniabom
I’ve received so many of these that I decided recently to simply block all comments. It wasn’t like I had any discourse going on anyway but now I am free to type away without regard for anyone’s feelings or political correctness. I proceed from the assumption that no one I know is reading this anyway. If I am wrong, they know how to contact me to say so.
But if you are a spammer, especially one using one or more of the above list, fuck you.