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Imagine this scene, which most of you are probably pretty familiar with.
You’ve just connected to the Internet and you login to your email account. There, right in front of your eyes, lies the text possessing the thing you’ve never seen on your Mobile or in your Post Box – 52 New Emails!
This is the kind of thing people only get when they go on holiday for about six months, then return to see a great pile of envelopes, and the such, not only laying on the doormat in a massive heap but also hanging through the letterbox itself and some just randomly scattered around minding their own business. You take the letters in, you throw them on the table and then you sit down to sort through them.
I ask you, how many of them are actually letters you care about?
Surely the ones which have “BILL’S!” screaming out from the inside you care about, or in some ways, don’t want to care about but they are not what I speak of. I speak of the ones which mean nothing to you, the ones which have pictures of Pizza’s all over them or ones which tell you where to get your haircut. Yes, the dreaded ‘Junk Mail’ itself.
I don’t like it, you don’t like it even the people who post it don’t like it, but they get paid for it. Being only 17 the junk which comes through my mail doesn’t bother me, it’s only there to trouble my Parent’s. But in the modern world everyone has a Mail Box of their own, through Email. I’m sure many of you own an email account and can totally relate to the rubbish which gets sent to your inbox’s and tries to trick you into going onto certain sites or to buy something. It bothers me that most of this stuff I never asked for and there was no way I could of asked for it. For example, it was only the other week I signed up for a new email account for my Uncle. Since then I haven’t touched the thing, nor has he. He hasn’t been on any sites and typed it in as he doesn’t have Internet access and nor have I. There is no way anyone could of got that email and so I was thinking it would be junk free. Boy, was I wrong. I was waiting for a certain email to arrive and so would check it regularly, then one day I went into his inbox and it said ‘1 new Email message’. I was thinking, “Oh that’s it, YAY” but what was it? Something about if I have a Dental Plan…
I feel for my Dad, he has a email account which he uses for stuff he does online like Banking etc. He only ever go’s on his email to check to see if there has been a email from my Aunt sent or if the Gas people are trying to contact him and such other stuff. He hardly checks it and so shifts through about 400+ emails with only about two being something he’s interested in and the rest bogus. Most of the emails he keeps saved are deleted because the Junk mail has taken up all available space in the inbox and so he can’t view vital stuff. Then he scrolls down and deletes each one separately. What a waste of time.
But most of all I feel for my little Sister and all the other young people who have an email account, which is ALOT of young people. The Government these days are too worried about ‘Safety in the Chatroom’ and ‘Save your kid’s from the paedophiles online’. But have they actually seen what comes through some peoples emails?
‘Free SEX!’
‘Here’s some naughty Pics for you’
‘J-low does a ton of blow’
‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
Believe it or not, they are some of the actual junk mail titles which I have copied and pasted from my inbox. They don’t only come to mine though, I see the same in other peoples all the time and many much worse.
The thing is, kid’s don’t know any better, they’ll click on that and say “Oh, what’s this Mummy?”
I bet there’s probably some innocent kids out there who just go on their email with they parents sitting beside them and up comes ‘Here’s those sexy Pics for you’. I bet some kids have been banned from using the PC for that, have been punished, have been grounded, have had major family arguments.
And what can be done to stop all this unwanted Porn? Nothing. But what do I know? I’m just a user of the Internet. There is probably some way, with funding, to stop these people sending emails to you even though you haven’t given them any details of yourself. Unlike our own doorsteps we can’t put a sign on our inbox’s saying ‘No Junk Mail for me thanks”.
I have seen nothing anywhere teaching the dangers of Junk emails, only about how certain ones contain viruses. But what’s worse, a virus (which these days can easily be avoided by automatic checks) or your nine year old kid getting Porn through their email?
This is just as big an issue, if not as big an issue as paedophiles. It’s just we’re a nation obsessed with whatever bad we can get our hands on. But in cases like these, we are actually missing out other potential dangers and nothing is being done about it.
It annoys everyone and it’s a danger to the younger generation. So now is the time to put a stop to it, right?
You’ve just connected to the Internet and you login to your email account. There, right in front of your eyes, lies the text possessing the thing you’ve never seen on your Mobile or in your Post Box – 52 New Emails!
This is the kind of thing people only get when they go on holiday for about six months, then return to see a great pile of envelopes, and the such, not only laying on the doormat in a massive heap but also hanging through the letterbox itself and some just randomly scattered around minding their own business. You take the letters in, you throw them on the table and then you sit down to sort through them.
I ask you, how many of them are actually letters you care about?
Surely the ones which have “BILL’S!” screaming out from the inside you care about, or in some ways, don’t want to care about but they are not what I speak of. I speak of the ones which mean nothing to you, the ones which have pictures of Pizza’s all over them or ones which tell you where to get your haircut. Yes, the dreaded ‘Junk Mail’ itself.
I don’t like it, you don’t like it even the people who post it don’t like it, but they get paid for it. Being only 17 the junk which comes through my mail doesn’t bother me, it’s only there to trouble my Parent’s. But in the modern world everyone has a Mail Box of their own, through Email. I’m sure many of you own an email account and can totally relate to the rubbish which gets sent to your inbox’s and tries to trick you into going onto certain sites or to buy something. It bothers me that most of this stuff I never asked for and there was no way I could of asked for it. For example, it was only the other week I signed up for a new email account for my Uncle. Since then I haven’t touched the thing, nor has he. He hasn’t been on any sites and typed it in as he doesn’t have Internet access and nor have I. There is no way anyone could of got that email and so I was thinking it would be junk free. Boy, was I wrong. I was waiting for a certain email to arrive and so would check it regularly, then one day I went into his inbox and it said ‘1 new Email message’. I was thinking, “Oh that’s it, YAY” but what was it? Something about if I have a Dental Plan…
I feel for my Dad, he has a email account which he uses for stuff he does online like Banking etc. He only ever go’s on his email to check to see if there has been a email from my Aunt sent or if the Gas people are trying to contact him and such other stuff. He hardly checks it and so shifts through about 400+ emails with only about two being something he’s interested in and the rest bogus. Most of the emails he keeps saved are deleted because the Junk mail has taken up all available space in the inbox and so he can’t view vital stuff. Then he scrolls down and deletes each one separately. What a waste of time.
But most of all I feel for my little Sister and all the other young people who have an email account, which is ALOT of young people. The Government these days are too worried about ‘Safety in the Chatroom’ and ‘Save your kid’s from the paedophiles online’. But have they actually seen what comes through some peoples emails?
‘Free SEX!’
‘Here’s some naughty Pics for you’
‘J-low does a ton of blow’
‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
Believe it or not, they are some of the actual junk mail titles which I have copied and pasted from my inbox. They don’t only come to mine though, I see the same in other peoples all the time and many much worse.
The thing is, kid’s don’t know any better, they’ll click on that and say “Oh, what’s this Mummy?”
I bet there’s probably some innocent kids out there who just go on their email with they parents sitting beside them and up comes ‘Here’s those sexy Pics for you’. I bet some kids have been banned from using the PC for that, have been punished, have been grounded, have had major family arguments.
And what can be done to stop all this unwanted Porn? Nothing. But what do I know? I’m just a user of the Internet. There is probably some way, with funding, to stop these people sending emails to you even though you haven’t given them any details of yourself. Unlike our own doorsteps we can’t put a sign on our inbox’s saying ‘No Junk Mail for me thanks”.
I have seen nothing anywhere teaching the dangers of Junk emails, only about how certain ones contain viruses. But what’s worse, a virus (which these days can easily be avoided by automatic checks) or your nine year old kid getting Porn through their email?
This is just as big an issue, if not as big an issue as paedophiles. It’s just we’re a nation obsessed with whatever bad we can get our hands on. But in cases like these, we are actually missing out other potential dangers and nothing is being done about it.
It annoys everyone and it’s a danger to the younger generation. So now is the time to put a stop to it, right?
Oh great...
2 in 4 days...
Now you've won all your games you wanted!
Lucky git..
2 in 4 days...
Now you've won all your games you wanted!
Lucky git..
I don't use hotmail and thus rarely receive junk mail. I am always one step ahead of the crowd.
John.J wrote:
> I have only got three junk emails so far and I've had an email account
> for about 2 months!
you lucky b*****d! I get tons of the rubbish!
> I have only got three junk emails so far and I've had an email account
> for about 2 months!
you lucky b*****d! I get tons of the rubbish!
I have only got three junk emails so far and I've had an email account for about 2 months!
I originally thought of throwing a nude stunted person around, then I realised the masturbatory element....
> Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> ‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
Yeah I only just realised that myself, it could be that game where you throw the Dwarf's around. But no doubt it was porn.
> ‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
Yeah I only just realised that myself, it could be that game where you throw the Dwarf's around. But no doubt it was porn.
Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> ‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
That could be taken two ways.....
Anyway, I agree with you. I got an email today titled "Just in time for christmas, one thousand dollar". Which is just as stupid as the breast enlargement emails I regularly receive. I also get German ones, but I don't mind them because they're so funny.
> ‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
That could be taken two ways.....
Anyway, I agree with you. I got an email today titled "Just in time for christmas, one thousand dollar". Which is just as stupid as the breast enlargement emails I regularly receive. I also get German ones, but I don't mind them because they're so funny.
It's all cheap viagra and peeeeenis enlargement pills. (excuse the filter).
Imagine this scene, which most of you are probably pretty familiar with.
You’ve just connected to the Internet and you login to your email account. There, right in front of your eyes, lies the text possessing the thing you’ve never seen on your Mobile or in your Post Box – 52 New Emails!
This is the kind of thing people only get when they go on holiday for about six months, then return to see a great pile of envelopes, and the such, not only laying on the doormat in a massive heap but also hanging through the letterbox itself and some just randomly scattered around minding their own business. You take the letters in, you throw them on the table and then you sit down to sort through them.
I ask you, how many of them are actually letters you care about?
Surely the ones which have “BILL’S!” screaming out from the inside you care about, or in some ways, don’t want to care about but they are not what I speak of. I speak of the ones which mean nothing to you, the ones which have pictures of Pizza’s all over them or ones which tell you where to get your haircut. Yes, the dreaded ‘Junk Mail’ itself.
I don’t like it, you don’t like it even the people who post it don’t like it, but they get paid for it. Being only 17 the junk which comes through my mail doesn’t bother me, it’s only there to trouble my Parent’s. But in the modern world everyone has a Mail Box of their own, through Email. I’m sure many of you own an email account and can totally relate to the rubbish which gets sent to your inbox’s and tries to trick you into going onto certain sites or to buy something. It bothers me that most of this stuff I never asked for and there was no way I could of asked for it. For example, it was only the other week I signed up for a new email account for my Uncle. Since then I haven’t touched the thing, nor has he. He hasn’t been on any sites and typed it in as he doesn’t have Internet access and nor have I. There is no way anyone could of got that email and so I was thinking it would be junk free. Boy, was I wrong. I was waiting for a certain email to arrive and so would check it regularly, then one day I went into his inbox and it said ‘1 new Email message’. I was thinking, “Oh that’s it, YAY” but what was it? Something about if I have a Dental Plan…
I feel for my Dad, he has a email account which he uses for stuff he does online like Banking etc. He only ever go’s on his email to check to see if there has been a email from my Aunt sent or if the Gas people are trying to contact him and such other stuff. He hardly checks it and so shifts through about 400+ emails with only about two being something he’s interested in and the rest bogus. Most of the emails he keeps saved are deleted because the Junk mail has taken up all available space in the inbox and so he can’t view vital stuff. Then he scrolls down and deletes each one separately. What a waste of time.
But most of all I feel for my little Sister and all the other young people who have an email account, which is ALOT of young people. The Government these days are too worried about ‘Safety in the Chatroom’ and ‘Save your kid’s from the paedophiles online’. But have they actually seen what comes through some peoples emails?
‘Free SEX!’
‘Here’s some naughty Pics for you’
‘J-low does a ton of blow’
‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
Believe it or not, they are some of the actual junk mail titles which I have copied and pasted from my inbox. They don’t only come to mine though, I see the same in other peoples all the time and many much worse.
The thing is, kid’s don’t know any better, they’ll click on that and say “Oh, what’s this Mummy?”
I bet there’s probably some innocent kids out there who just go on their email with they parents sitting beside them and up comes ‘Here’s those sexy Pics for you’. I bet some kids have been banned from using the PC for that, have been punished, have been grounded, have had major family arguments.
And what can be done to stop all this unwanted Porn? Nothing. But what do I know? I’m just a user of the Internet. There is probably some way, with funding, to stop these people sending emails to you even though you haven’t given them any details of yourself. Unlike our own doorsteps we can’t put a sign on our inbox’s saying ‘No Junk Mail for me thanks”.
I have seen nothing anywhere teaching the dangers of Junk emails, only about how certain ones contain viruses. But what’s worse, a virus (which these days can easily be avoided by automatic checks) or your nine year old kid getting Porn through their email?
This is just as big an issue, if not as big an issue as paedophiles. It’s just we’re a nation obsessed with whatever bad we can get our hands on. But in cases like these, we are actually missing out other potential dangers and nothing is being done about it.
It annoys everyone and it’s a danger to the younger generation. So now is the time to put a stop to it, right?
You’ve just connected to the Internet and you login to your email account. There, right in front of your eyes, lies the text possessing the thing you’ve never seen on your Mobile or in your Post Box – 52 New Emails!
This is the kind of thing people only get when they go on holiday for about six months, then return to see a great pile of envelopes, and the such, not only laying on the doormat in a massive heap but also hanging through the letterbox itself and some just randomly scattered around minding their own business. You take the letters in, you throw them on the table and then you sit down to sort through them.
I ask you, how many of them are actually letters you care about?
Surely the ones which have “BILL’S!” screaming out from the inside you care about, or in some ways, don’t want to care about but they are not what I speak of. I speak of the ones which mean nothing to you, the ones which have pictures of Pizza’s all over them or ones which tell you where to get your haircut. Yes, the dreaded ‘Junk Mail’ itself.
I don’t like it, you don’t like it even the people who post it don’t like it, but they get paid for it. Being only 17 the junk which comes through my mail doesn’t bother me, it’s only there to trouble my Parent’s. But in the modern world everyone has a Mail Box of their own, through Email. I’m sure many of you own an email account and can totally relate to the rubbish which gets sent to your inbox’s and tries to trick you into going onto certain sites or to buy something. It bothers me that most of this stuff I never asked for and there was no way I could of asked for it. For example, it was only the other week I signed up for a new email account for my Uncle. Since then I haven’t touched the thing, nor has he. He hasn’t been on any sites and typed it in as he doesn’t have Internet access and nor have I. There is no way anyone could of got that email and so I was thinking it would be junk free. Boy, was I wrong. I was waiting for a certain email to arrive and so would check it regularly, then one day I went into his inbox and it said ‘1 new Email message’. I was thinking, “Oh that’s it, YAY” but what was it? Something about if I have a Dental Plan…
I feel for my Dad, he has a email account which he uses for stuff he does online like Banking etc. He only ever go’s on his email to check to see if there has been a email from my Aunt sent or if the Gas people are trying to contact him and such other stuff. He hardly checks it and so shifts through about 400+ emails with only about two being something he’s interested in and the rest bogus. Most of the emails he keeps saved are deleted because the Junk mail has taken up all available space in the inbox and so he can’t view vital stuff. Then he scrolls down and deletes each one separately. What a waste of time.
But most of all I feel for my little Sister and all the other young people who have an email account, which is ALOT of young people. The Government these days are too worried about ‘Safety in the Chatroom’ and ‘Save your kid’s from the paedophiles online’. But have they actually seen what comes through some peoples emails?
‘Free SEX!’
‘Here’s some naughty Pics for you’
‘J-low does a ton of blow’
‘NAKED DWARF TOSSING!’
Believe it or not, they are some of the actual junk mail titles which I have copied and pasted from my inbox. They don’t only come to mine though, I see the same in other peoples all the time and many much worse.
The thing is, kid’s don’t know any better, they’ll click on that and say “Oh, what’s this Mummy?”
I bet there’s probably some innocent kids out there who just go on their email with they parents sitting beside them and up comes ‘Here’s those sexy Pics for you’. I bet some kids have been banned from using the PC for that, have been punished, have been grounded, have had major family arguments.
And what can be done to stop all this unwanted Porn? Nothing. But what do I know? I’m just a user of the Internet. There is probably some way, with funding, to stop these people sending emails to you even though you haven’t given them any details of yourself. Unlike our own doorsteps we can’t put a sign on our inbox’s saying ‘No Junk Mail for me thanks”.
I have seen nothing anywhere teaching the dangers of Junk emails, only about how certain ones contain viruses. But what’s worse, a virus (which these days can easily be avoided by automatic checks) or your nine year old kid getting Porn through their email?
This is just as big an issue, if not as big an issue as paedophiles. It’s just we’re a nation obsessed with whatever bad we can get our hands on. But in cases like these, we are actually missing out other potential dangers and nothing is being done about it.
It annoys everyone and it’s a danger to the younger generation. So now is the time to put a stop to it, right?