Relax babies. Try to understand before you speak...

Oh man....even I am not immune to the situation at hand in this post. I may have instantly made some enemies for myself at no fault of my own. Allow myself to explain myself. So, I wake up this morning and check my email before leaving the house to workout. Well, I get this PowerPoint file from a friend of mine who lives in Nevada. Well, as most people may do, you trust the person/people you get forwards from and hope & pray to the cyber-gods that your email/spam/intrusion detection/hardware-software firewall will catch any of the nastiness from cyberspace before it gets to your inbox. Well, anyone who knows me should know that I am allergic to being a nuisance to people. I don't like to create havoc since it is a waste of energy. Anyway, I decide that I should send out this .ppt file to a distribution of people who I think may find it interesting or amusing. Well, it turns out that I get a reply back right after sending it out and I am labeled a spammer. Ouch! That cuts pretty deep since I loathe all things spam. Even that canned mystery meat outside of the virtual world so popular in Hawaii does not have a favorable position in my eyes. :p

I got to thinking after several people were kind of pissed by this and replied back to me on how interesting it is that people can (and are) be so clueless about a particular technology if something outside of the norm can/does happen. I knew exactly what happened when a few people told me they received a dozen or more copies of the message from me; as I said in a follow up email to people, it was out of my control. I am super conscious of keeping my Windows updates current and I run Nortons, Avast and Zone Alarm. And every other day I use Ad-Aware, Spybot and CCleaner to kill any ad ware. Yet, something happened out of the norm. In reality, it could have also been a breach with my ISP, but my point is with technology there can be MANY potential issues that cause for something to happen, but if you do not understand such things, your anger is what clouds the mind. I am positive these are the people who have not worked in an office environment with MS Outlook as the primary personal information manager responsible for email and any personal/public folders. I have been in work environments where a virus or worm hit and emails were being sent like machine gun fire. It's just the dark side of technology. It happens. Is it annoying? Yes, but it happens, so tighten up your diapers and accept the reality! Sheesh. Who's to say that today (April 1st) may not be one of those particular dates where someone wants to try out some new virus, spam bot, etc. to annoy people.....Shall we just run from our keyboards now? Uh.....no.



The lesson in all this is that I should have just used my mac this morning. [Inner Napoleon Dynamite voice] Idiot!! [/Inner Napoleon Dynamite voice]