Yeah, Xanga, you rule. Not in a good way either. This survey thing, to get 2,000 credits? I fell for it. Well, I participated because it was something to do and I thought it'd be cool to get enough credits to give someone free lifetime. However, there's only been 2 surveys. One which pointedly asked no pertinent questions for any subject whatsoever, and the current one, which has been the current one for weeks now. It's for Neilsen ratings, and installs software that slows your computers ass way down. Mine was taking an extra 25 seconds to even boot up, so God knows how much it was slowing down the thing running.
Yeah, 25 seconds isn't a lot of time. Set a timer for 25 seconds and stare at your computer until it goes off, and wonder what the hell is loading that takes 25 seconds. Wondering that makes 25 seconds seem like an eternity.
So I uninstalled the Neilsen thing and whallah, 25 seconds less time to boot up like it was before. But I don't have these 40 billion credits it takes to give someone lifetime Xanga, because there's no new surveys. Sigh.
So, yep, I fell for it. Never again though... until next time.
I wrote this having just sent my sister an email telling her to stop sending me chain letters in email. Jesus. No, AOL will not donate 32 cents to some kid with cancer every time an email is forwarded. Mainly because the whole world would suddenly have a kid with cancer, and also mainly because there's no fricking way they could track an email being sent all over the damn world.
The only thing anyone ever gets from forwarding email is the disrespect from those they send them to, and maybe the recipient feeling a little sorry for said person and wondering how they allowed such a sucker into their network of friends. Really.
Damn if I don't seem all negative today. I'm not, just haven't eaten yet.
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go eat a kid w/ cancer
Bill Gates and Applebee's will send a box of cookies to the troops for every comment you get in this post.Thank God I read this before I sent that forwarded e-mail...
You just saved all my friendships...
You mean that my free giftcard isn't in the mail or going to shoot out of my monitor at me for sending all those emails? Goddammit. I might as well go back home now.
I tend to reply to those emails with links to its corresponding page on www.snopes.com. Wonderful site.
I still don't completely get the points thingy here. Doesn't seem like it's worth caring about. Although, lifetime premium Xanga would be nice.
Yea I am workingon a new computer as we speak. I wanted to reformat my current computer 100% but alas no money for it until the fall.
Le sigh.
Lub you Fleeny
I got the survey about "where i get my information." After answering a couple things about the net and what nerdy magazines i read, I was all, "cool, this'll be something about how i geek out on the internet". But then i got to the part where i said i was female and in the 25-30 age bracket and suddenly i found myself spending the next ten minutes answering drivel about a fashion magazine cover and which celebrities i like most. it was outright insulting, and i didn't even get credits!
But i wasn't dumb enough to install the neilsen software. i took one look at that shite and was like "oh hell no!". hehe, poor fleen.
i figure, if there's anything anyone doesn't know about me from reading my blog over the years, answering a survey certainly ain't gonna do it.
what do you need for lifetime, 100,000 credits? that's easy, dude. just leave 50,000 comments on random sites. now you get paid for drive-bys.
propz0rz, hit meh back, yo.
Yeah, I'm blessed. Ethically, I can't take surveys like that.
@solomon_grundie - or call people back who leave messages on your phone either. Damn ethnics.
Man, when people send me glurge crap I usually take the time to send the snopes page for the email back to them.