Spam Flavored Fantasy: Chain Mail On The PSN
It's the way of the world: the sun blazes, the earth turns on its' axis, leather chaps will be sticky in hot weather...and your inbox will receive messages regarding erectile dysfunction. Spam happens. This I have come to accept and promptly delete. However there are some areas in life I do not expect to see such sliminess though and my consoles are part of that space. Apparently now that we have hard drives and Wi-Fi our consoles resemble PCs to the point that our respective inboxes are no longer exempt from this cavalcade of spam-flavored fantasy.
Last week I logged onto my PSN account and noticed a letter claiming if I sent a copy of said mail to 10 people I would be considered for the Modern Warfare 2 beta. "This mail will be monitored by the PSN moderators and you will be notified by Oct 21st". I have never been invited into a beta via chain mail. Chain mail by its' very nature is unabashedly self serving; most definitely not the way to get me to check out your product. Not two days later I received another one claiming a free twenty dollars in PSN money if forwarded to twenty people. This annoyed me. It is not so much the letter itself but the disservice generated by virally spreading misinformation. It sent me right back to the 5th grade when a friend and I put a carton of milk in an unsuspecting nun's storage locker. For days we watched with glee as she searched for the elusive odor haunting the classroom. Great fun for us but we still had to endure the smell of the thing. These messages I liken to that carton of milk and to that pair of selfish, silly boys: once it starts to turn it affects every body.
ROCsteady
Posted to Miscellany, Video Games on 17 October 2009
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Seriously, I can't believe how many idiots pass on chain-letters.
I've since blocked 1 guy from my friends list and about 4 people who saw me in a game once.