Now I'm pretty happy with what I generally see on gmail (well, since I changed it back from the new view, that's going to upset me all over again when they force me to switch) but this time I've seen something upon logging in that made me a bit sad.
It's not the immediate thing that makes me sad. The fact that a spambot has latched on to an account I use purely for following about three people and never update doesn't bother me at all. I actually find spam to be rather amusing. However this time I did actually go along to see what was going on. I mean, wouldn't you respond to something that said: "I'll probably get horny and want you to fuck me but lets see where we can take this.!! please follow me."? (I've removed the link that was at the end of that quote as I'm pretty sure it's not going to go anywhere good.)
As I say I wandered over to the profile to see what this spambot was about and, as predicted, there was a picture of a youngish lady smiling (I don't know but I'd guess that she's looking for a nice, maybe English, gentleman to connect with or something) and no tweets whatsoever but the main thing that I noticed was that while the bot was following 171 people (when I got the e-mail, I've just looked and it's now up to 765 a few minutes later) there was actually someone silly enough to follow back (still only that person following back at this time).
Then again, maybe I'm being unfair and this is someone who was entertained by the idea of having a spambot on their list to see what it would say, but having had a quick look at their profile and tweets I can't help but think that they actually responded in earnest.
Then again again, given the way that a lot of men approach women I suppose they may have just thought "finally, a woman who just gets to the point, I knew I was right!"
If for no other reason then my sanity I think I'm going to go with they just automatically follow anyone who follows them. Thoughtlessness is a lot less depressing than the alternatives.
Why do I even wonder about these things?
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