I've been seeing people post this message to my Super Wall on Facebook:

i couldn't believe it when u press forward u see the person who views ur profile the most...try it...

Ok, I haven't done it but I figured out the first time I saw this (the bad spelling is a huge tip off) that the only way you're going to see if it works is if you send this message to all your friends, which encourages them to do it (self-propagating x multiplying exponentially = virus). From what I've read, it does not work. You just send spam, essentially, to all your friends and show them that you'll do whatever people tell you to do.

Would Facebook do this per their Privacy Policy? I think not. 

These are the exact same people who forward emails around to get free computers from Bill Gates and Applebee's. Watch out, they're out there.

And these must be the same people clicking on attachments that I blogged about a few days ago. Man, I wish I had that kind of free time. :-)

-T

Well, they got engaged Sunday night on Picnic Point doing geocaching. How romantic.

Sounds like I'll have an empty room in the condo come September or October... that is, unless she's moving in. Hmm, I better find out. (j/k) :-)

Congrats!

-T 

Someone who has my email address (an old one even) in their address book clicked on an attachment they shouldn't have yesterday. I know because I got all the bounced spam that was sent out in my name - a few hundred emails, which you don't want to mark as spam since you need to know when real emails bounce.

Here is how the email headers look:

Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:24:10 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C89809.021A2DE9"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198

So it's someone using Outlook Express. I don't use that of course, I have a Mac. Others in their address book probably also had this happen to them.

I'm not mad - just a little annoyed and just want to show everyone an example of how other people are affected when you click on attachments that you shouldn't click on. Be careful out there.

-T

I just thought of a good "I told you so" from a while back. I'm not one to brag, really but seeing I was right here is just kind of reassuring to me that I'm in the right business doing things the right way...

At a former, unnamed employer of mine, the CEO stomped into my office (that's the way he walked, which was good because you knew if he was coming up behind you or not - well, that and the look of terror on everyone's faces) and said that he wanted some links changed on the website to read "click here" instead of just linking the product name. I disagreed and said that that's not how hypertext is supposed to be used but he insisted.

In the last few years, we find out that Google pays more attention to the words you link up as hypertext (keywords) and thus ranks the page you're pointing to higher for that particular keyword. For example, the link: cars links to my cars section of the site. So, just think if they would have left things how I had them and followed my thinking 10 years ago. How many more sales would they have had via the web?

Which brings up another wrong thing he said. He said - and I quote, "We will never do sales over the web site!" Well, they're doing it now. My idea... where's my check? :-)

One more, same guy... he stomped in another day and he had me remove the word "christen" from the web site, which I had put there to describe the opening of their new building, which I took pictures of and posted on the site (this was months later, actually). He didn't want it there because "we're Jewish". Well, Hebrew, it doesn't actually directly refer to Jesus Christ. Jesus' name is actually just "Jesus". "Christo" means "dedicated one". So Jesus is the dedicated one, but to christen something is just to dedicate it and has no necessary religious affiliation associated with it - namely, Christianity.

Ok, that's one guy and 3 times I now say, "I told you so!"

Too bad I didn't know then what I know now. :-)

-T