I try to clear out my Spam box daily. I'm a bit anal when it comes to the way my gmail box looks, and right now it's bizarre to me that sans full-time job I have gotten lazy. Earlier today I deleted the Spam box with more than 500 emails in it.
And let me just ask, does it bother anyone else that almost all of the emails have something to do with either free credit or free sex?
I don't get it. When did all inhibitions become cast aside causing the Internet to blow up? In Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs," he makes the statement in one of the chapter essays that the reason the Internet expanded like it did was because of the notion that the Internet got rid of the awkwardness of buying pornography. Not only did you not have to accidentally run into your mom's best friend buying groceries, you got the porn for free. It seemed the best of both worlds, but I mean, please don't call me naive, but doesn't it sort of make you sick? There are over 500,000 sites dedicated to contrived nudity. Aren't there better things one could be doing with their time than either a. creating a free porn site? or b. looking at a free porn site? or the worst, c. paying for porn on the Internet because the free stuff doesn't quite do the trick?
I should think the Spam company (i.e. makers of Spam food (?) products, also contrived) would be upset that their good name has been tarnished by free porn marketers all over your Internet email address. But I guess a product that promotes its "World of effortless, everyday creativity," as Spam boasts on its website, probably wouldn't give a damn. It would require effort, and we've all figured out that free porn or being upset about its existence would require at least some small effort.
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