You spam too.

Benjamin W.

March 27, 2010

I along with pretty much everyone on earth, I hate spam. I don’t know why it exists. The only explanation that I can come up with is that 1 out of 1,000,000 people responds. And that is a good enough excuse to hit the send button since it costs you nearly nothing to do so. But all this has been said.

I was reading a recent post on the 37signals blog, Spam is a way of thinking. And I think Jason touched on the exact thing that I hate about it. There’s no effort. It’s impersonal. It’s easy. It requires no thought. And we do it too.

There is the really spammy spam. The emails about getting better in bed or medical marijuana. The kind pretty much anyone can rally against. But then there’s the less obvious stuff. The “I’ve met you in person so It’s ok that I’m sending you and everyone else I know the same facebook message in hopes of getting something out of it” spam. This is the type we sweep under the rug and ignore and yet it clutters up my inbox and creates more anxiety than any of that other crap.

I’m not saying this because I hate it and it’s wrong and you people should be punished. I’m guilty of the same thing. What I want to say is that it is actually a no-win game for everyone involved.

I truly believe that you get out of the universe what you put in. So if you are cutting corners, writing boring shit and blasting everyone you know with the generic “hello my friend” greeting, you are pissing people off and more importantly, you’re not making them feel good, important or special and they won’t feel compelled to respond.

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