Move Along's blog: "Why I came here..."

"Once more I have been forced to read one of those wetware viruses where the code and method of transmission is run on human brains using say email or IM. Courtney: If someone by the name of Ashley Marc James wants to add you to their list dont accept it. Its a virus. Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list adds them you will get it too. It is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus. Please pass this on to everyone on your list. We need to find out who is using this accounts. Sorry for the inconvenience. Right click on your group name of your buddy list and click Send Message to all. Copy and paste it. (I'd love to know who this Courtney is). A quick search would already show that this information is fake. But that's the subtlety of the con trick. The call to action orders you to tell every one you know. What is strange is the number of people that obey such an order. No wonder a call to action after an advert gets such a good response. "If someone by the name of Ashley Marc James wants to add you to their list dont accept it. Its a virus..." This is a classic spamish chain letter designed to cause heavy drain on the service and raise panic. I have never experienced a time when a message of this format in email, IM, PM or other format was not a fake. Virus companies need at most 24 hours to identify a cure for a virus once they obtain it. Most often they can deal with it in one hour or less. The vast number of virus types can be patterned and ready for detection inside of sixty seconds. The rest of the time is a double check that you have a unique handle. Such messages are never from real anti-virus companies. ie a HOAX. Furthermore the same search told me that already 42 different and rather gullible people had post messages to web pages to tell the world about this "virus". One page I visited had a well meaning comment that said: "'ASHLEY MARC JAMES' is the name to delete or just don't add her as a friend!!It's a virus!!Like I said,if you have friends of friends that have added her then you're screwed too!Have a wonderful day!;)" The insanity of the thing makes me mad. Stop! Think! What are you talking about? Have you not wondered why Yahoo who could be cost billions if this were true have failed to act. They have not acted because they is nothing to act against. The big clue is the panic button. This "wetware virus" is very clever. You see, it's not enough to get people to warn their friends to protect them no you must warn them and their friends too or "you will suffer from spots and weasels" or whatever the thing claims. Therefore, you have to push everyone you know - "just in case". After all a simple message to your buddies couldn't hurt? Could it? But all of your buddies are going to hit "SEND ALL" and if you have 30 buddies that is thirty junk copies of the message back to you. Now here is the trick. You will start to believe it after seeing the message that many times. Worse still some truly unthinking people will actually follow these instructions each time they get them. Can you imaging the amount of pointless traffic the IM network now has to process? And why? Because you did not stop to say, hang on this sounds like a bunch of junk to me. A best it is a simple HOAX and you have been "had". At worst it is a way to ruin someone's good name. (Sounds like hate to me.) Going back to the IM I got: "We need to find out who is using this accounts." ever ask who "we" is? What business have they finding out who is running a given account? Why do they need to invade my privacy? Sounds suspect to me. And it is suspect. Yahoo know who their members are and can trace them to physical addresses should they need to; but this dodgy "we" is probably up to no good. If indeed they are able to anything at all. This is most common on PM on big websites like gaia online where the poster pretends to be an admin. What is more: have you not, maybe, considered that if this was an issue then Yahoo would simply block the name inside of ten seconds of realizing it was a problem? Problem solved - account disabled. "if somebody on your list adds them you will get it too." if anyone could ever writes a virus that could hurt other people like that then they have found a way to infect you without your action and there would be nothing you could do. We call these viruses "worms" and that is what we have Anti-Virus software for. Adding people can not infect you as the contact information is not code but data. Otherwise IM software would be a riot of viruses already. Here is one last insight "for your 'buddy list'" that indicates an AIM (AOL IM) message yet I got this over Y! (Yahoo) which means it has "jumped". How does it jump? Foolish humans passing on an idiot message. Please forgive me if I sound irritated by this - it spoils things for everyone and after a while you just have to say: enough! There is no "Ashley Marc James virus" (while trying very hard not to insult one's friends even though just at that moment you might want to)." Now quit the damned bulletins already!

There are too many people here that will stab you in the back as soon as you have anything personal to say. I'm sick of you fakes. I don't care if I ever get to Godfather or whatever, it isn't worth knowing you. Rate your own pics, win your contests on your own, I don't care. My friends talk to me. If you think I'm creepy, weird, the antichrist, whatever, then beat me to deleting you.

I have come to the conclusion that I'm spending WAY too much time here, and on community sites in general. I need to focus my time in more productive directions. I found what I really wanted here and she can contact me several other ways.

I'm tired of you whining about how I take pics of your cats and add captions without permission. It's not your damned child, it's your PET! Most people have a sense of humor and don't mind me taking those pics and immortalizing their cats with a joke. Just because you never saw my shout asking if I could take it, it doesn't mean I didn't ask, so if you have a problem with it, PAY ATTENTION and be grateful I'm not one of those sick f***s who rips pics of YOU and makes a fake profile with them. Give it a rest. It's a damned animal, not your firstborn.

but no, I come to this site and I get my photos marked NSFW by BOUNCERS when I see nothing wrong with them. For example, the one with the girl from Exorcist was flagged twice, the second time after a BOUNCER cleared it. She wasn't even masturbating! She was just standing there in full makeup! Is it because of something it REFERS to? So if I put up a pic of freaking Cheech and Chong, or Jay and Silent Bob, is it considered promotion of marijuana usage even if there isn't even a clear joint in the whole damned pic? Get your HEADS out of your A$$ES! I'm sick of this! This is a free country, and an ADULT WEB SITE. If you can't handle a REFERENCE to a horror movie that has NOTHING WRONG in the PICTURE ITSELF, then quit your job as a bouncer here and go back to Myspace! Go ahead and delete my account if it makes you happy, you idiot!

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Sure, we're supposed to be able to fill them out for free points, but what's the point of telling us we qualify for them when we either don't make enough money, don't own the right kind of car, or don't buy the right crap? Come on, I thought it was a survey, not a reward for being a "good little consumer"! I'm not going to go out and buy three freaking tons of Donald Duck OJ just so I can qualify for one stupid online survey!

This time around, she found me, and we get along so well I can't believe it. That said, I will apologize for what I posted earlier. My last girlfriend was pulling a Transformer and never had the chance to tell me about it. The situation was more than meets the eye. I'm still not going to say her name because I don't want anyone going to her page and slamming her. She's going through enough already, and I told her that fubar is the LAST place you need to be if you're hurting that much. Some things are outside our control, but we can still choose what we do. It's what you do when life hands you your a$$ that makes you who you are. You have to focus on the things you love and just try to keep moving forward. Update: Easy come, easy go. She and I wanted the same thing, but for different reasons. Those reasons are making me think twice already.

not because they were being a d**k or anything, but because my computer froze EVERY TIME I visited their profile. My point? Don't overload your profile! Keep it simple aside from your "skin" and if you have a lot of clever little banners or more than one video, for the love of whatever you worship, USE YOUR STASH, PEOPLE! Remember, some people here have computers that can't even handle the high-end graphics you're trying to shove on them. I bet some can't even use Flash because it overloads their browser and memory. Why do you think I keep my profile minimal? So no one has to drop me as a friend just because my profile freezes their computer. Also, watch those damned animated skins. They take up more load time than you think.

Don't even ask why. I have this damned thing on a surge protector, and yet some people are so scared by what they hear on the news that they are ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED my computer's going to burn down the house if it's on during a rainstorm. Yet somehow it doesn't apply to the TV. A$$wipes. And to make matters worse, the internet-ready cell phone I ordered isn't here yet. If you don't see me online for a while, it's because paranoia is god in the minds of the retarded.