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Spam probably says as much about us as anything else - after all, if people weren't buying, they wouldn't be selling.
But still: what a strange world!
It's been 40 years since this Monty Python sketch was broadcast. While it just seems odd today, the reason British audiences laughed is that because after WWII killed their food industry, they were stuck with this low-cost import that seemed to be everywhere while meat was scarce.
Eventually, spam transformed from nerd humor to big money. With billions of dollars at stake, spammers keep outpacing spam filters. They've gone from emails to social networks like Facebook to embedded links in YouTube videos to burrowing their way into Tweets. They've also gotten more dangerous: while the amount of spam has dropped in the last year, the amount of viruses they contain has jumped over 40% in the last three months, making spam among the most annoying and dangerous medium.
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This was certainly a funny post. I really enjoyed the Monty Python video... I kinda want the spam, sausage, hams and spam order. lol
ReplyDeleteI think that spam has had a lot of influence in our lives. Today spam is knowing in many different ways. Spam emails, Spam food, Spam art, Monty Python Spam, spam spam spam... it's everywhere. It's use for advertising in mass media is used to show the "fake" in something. Looking back at how in Britain spam was used as the substitute for meat because of it's scarceness; in our lives today, spam takes different forms. In emails, spam are the fake email usually generated by hackers or fake addresses to trick you into things.
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