2008 Woodie Awards
Bellarmine student shares Internet annoyance
Danielle Fleming
Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: Opinion
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We all get it. We log onto our computers, into our email and bam--there it is. Ten random emails trying to sell something, get us to try something, or read something. Spam.
Our internet mail boxes are flooded with unsolicited, unwanted, dreaded electronic messages. If that's not enough, when we research something online, shop online, or play a game we are plagued by internet popup. Thank God for pop-up blockers, but even those fail to catch everything.
I am glad to say that at least on my Bellarmine account I do not receive any spam. I have never really received that much on any of my email accounts, but I am still young. Most of my internet troubles are caused by slow
connections or pop-ups. I understand some companies may want to advertise in this way, but I think it just annoys potential consumers more than interests them: those new computer software ads that try to get your attention by
warning that your computer may be in danger; dating websites that try to convince people to "Come try and find your match;" credit card offers, or those stupid smiley faces may very well drive me to drink.
I know internet advertising is a good way to drum-up business and increase sales, because the internet is a wide reaching, all encompassing medium, but I think there are better ways to reach all those potential
consumers.
Thankfully, Bellarmine has now added the Spam Quarantine, which I am told is extremely
helpful. Too bad it blocks out everything just about. I've signed up to receive certain emails from Oxfam America (social justice) to Urban Outfitters or Ear Xtasy (shopping) to Facebook. The spam quarantine blocks all those out and when I try to select one it makes me do it individually
taking a up unnecessary time.
Now I know I may just be a little annoyed because it blocks my Facebook messages, but, hey, how else am I going to postpone doing homework for as long as possible? I think the addition of Spam Quarantine was a good idea, but now it just takes me longer to read emails that I asked to receive in the first place. I guess if I received large amounts of spam I would be more grateful, but I think because my main internet annoyance is pop-ups, I wish that it would just stop the pop-ups that get past my initial pop-up blocker. Or rather, I wish that pop-ups were outlawed.
Our internet mail boxes are flooded with unsolicited, unwanted, dreaded electronic messages. If that's not enough, when we research something online, shop online, or play a game we are plagued by internet popup. Thank God for pop-up blockers, but even those fail to catch everything.
I am glad to say that at least on my Bellarmine account I do not receive any spam. I have never really received that much on any of my email accounts, but I am still young. Most of my internet troubles are caused by slow
connections or pop-ups. I understand some companies may want to advertise in this way, but I think it just annoys potential consumers more than interests them: those new computer software ads that try to get your attention by
warning that your computer may be in danger; dating websites that try to convince people to "Come try and find your match;" credit card offers, or those stupid smiley faces may very well drive me to drink.
I know internet advertising is a good way to drum-up business and increase sales, because the internet is a wide reaching, all encompassing medium, but I think there are better ways to reach all those potential
consumers.
Thankfully, Bellarmine has now added the Spam Quarantine, which I am told is extremely
helpful. Too bad it blocks out everything just about. I've signed up to receive certain emails from Oxfam America (social justice) to Urban Outfitters or Ear Xtasy (shopping) to Facebook. The spam quarantine blocks all those out and when I try to select one it makes me do it individually
taking a up unnecessary time.
Now I know I may just be a little annoyed because it blocks my Facebook messages, but, hey, how else am I going to postpone doing homework for as long as possible? I think the addition of Spam Quarantine was a good idea, but now it just takes me longer to read emails that I asked to receive in the first place. I guess if I received large amounts of spam I would be more grateful, but I think because my main internet annoyance is pop-ups, I wish that it would just stop the pop-ups that get past my initial pop-up blocker. Or rather, I wish that pop-ups were outlawed.
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