with friends like these...
Every day now, I get notices that "so-and-so is following you", and I think, oh, that's nice. I do miss the days when more of my Flickr friends were active. To quote Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, "Oh my! People come and go so quickly here!"..
But then you check, and sure enough, it's just more spam.. Thanks, Yahoo.. Just what I need. Pretty young 20-year-olds with 5 pictures and who want to have "plenty sex".. Like I don't have enough friends like that already..
It's almost as bad as the daily robo-calls on my cellphone announcing that (lucky me) I am eligible to renew my extended warranty, or reduce my insurance premiums.
In both cases, I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of my service providers. Ya can't tell me that they can't screen those people out, and at least force callers to identify themselves before they put the call through. The same goes for the scammers who represent themselves as the IRS, and caller ID shows the call that way.. It is 100% the responsibility of the phone company to eliminate that kind of fraud. As far as I am concerned, they are partners in crime with the scammers.
Okay. Stepping off my soapbox..
Got an eclipse to go stare at with my naked eyes..
with friends like these...
Every day now, I get notices that "so-and-so is following you", and I think, oh, that's nice. I do miss the days when more of my Flickr friends were active. To quote Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, "Oh my! People come and go so quickly here!"..
But then you check, and sure enough, it's just more spam.. Thanks, Yahoo.. Just what I need. Pretty young 20-year-olds with 5 pictures and who want to have "plenty sex".. Like I don't have enough friends like that already..
It's almost as bad as the daily robo-calls on my cellphone announcing that (lucky me) I am eligible to renew my extended warranty, or reduce my insurance premiums.
In both cases, I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of my service providers. Ya can't tell me that they can't screen those people out, and at least force callers to identify themselves before they put the call through. The same goes for the scammers who represent themselves as the IRS, and caller ID shows the call that way.. It is 100% the responsibility of the phone company to eliminate that kind of fraud. As far as I am concerned, they are partners in crime with the scammers.
Okay. Stepping off my soapbox..
Got an eclipse to go stare at with my naked eyes..