random ranjeet on 20 Aug 2008 09:36 pm
Reverse Psychology
I’ve been using G-mail for a number of years as my primary non-work e-mail address. Although I first signed up for the nerd cred of having an invite only e-mail address from Google (thanks Rob!), I’ve always been impressed with its features. In particular, it seems to have a really good spam filter. There are rare false positives and, uh, true negatives. But I still check the spam list every day or so, just to make sure. Most of the items in there have subjects that are intended to seduce me into opening the message, and following whatever nefarious links are within. They might tell me how to, uh, enhance myself, or tell me that there is an important message from my bank, or maybe even convince me that a hot girl has sent me a message and wants to talk to me. Fortunately, I am not so easily fooled. Wait, what’s this?
Oh, it’s on! No one tells me that I have a stupid face here except for my closest friends. They tell me that all the time, I don’t need to hear it from Anonymous Internet Bully. You know what? I’m gonna reply to this Ivar guy and give him a piece of my mind. He’ll know he can’t just push me around. Let’s see…well, in order to prove that I’m the person that he claimed had a stupid face, I better include my social security number and bank account information. I wouldn’t want him to think I’m some random person on the internet. I’ll let you guys know how it turns out.