Remember when facebook messages were actually from friends and on occasion, unwelcomed stalkers? (welcomed if they were hot). I do. I miss the days of getting messages that had no agenda other than to share a simple "hello." Nowadays whenever I check my inbox, the hellos are outnumbered by the "omg, come see my performance" 's.* While I appreciate the exercise my finger gets deleting these messages, the onslaught can be overwhelming.
Maybe it's just me, but these mass messages make it feel like there's an a cappella performance every other day. I'm not anymore inclined to attend, I'm just that much more aware of events I don't care about. Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for the shameless self-promotion of activities and causes. I think you should be proud of what you're doing and solicit support any way you can. It's just that every now and then, it would be nice to receive something worth reading to help dilute all the rubbish.
Actually, as I write this, I can recall a few mass messages that I actually enjoyed reading. One of which was for the upcoming Pilam event on Feb 9.
Hmm, I guess there are two take-aways from this post.
1. send more hellos. (hellos from strangers [even ugly people] are welcome)
2. if I have to read your spam, make it really delicious. I may acquire a taste for it.
*if you can clean up this punctuation, tell me how
1 comment:
Hey Huney, just wanted to say thanks for commenting on my blog. Your's is banging. I need to step up my game. But yeah spamming is just one of the things that is annoying me about facebook. I'm curious to see in what other ways it is going to change as more people join.
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