Spam
It has gotten to the point where every time I come to this site I find spam. It’s become somewhat of a endless ritual of delete, block, rebuild, repeat. The spam, which varies from advertising links for pharmaceutical companies to gambling sites to porn, oftentimes includes comments that are offensive at best.
Although spam is a nuisance, it is very much like commercials on television. One learns to ignore it the best way possible. It’s rather predictable that anything as big as the blog-world has become, Wall Street would want a piece of it. Therefore, the advertising and marketing that has flooded the blog scene is bound to get worse.
The blog-world is expanding at a rapid pace. I’ve read that on any given day 12,000 new blogs are created. Many of these new blogs are owned by second generation bloggers, some still young enough to be in grade school. While adult bloggers have long since built a callus towards any form of advertising, many of the young bloggers have not. The point is, if I’m receiving spam about porn sites and internet gambling and available drugs on the web, then surely some of these youngsters are receiving it as well.
In a time where the government is keeping close tabs on the media and what is presented to the general public, it’s time that they take a look at the advertisers that riding roughshod over the internet and flooding blogs with unwanted spam. These spammers need to be held to the same laws that stalkers and crank phone callers are held to. Their spam is nothing more than internet-stalking.