The MySpace Spamularity
It’s finally happened. MySpace has reached a point where it now defies all
laws of physics and creates matter (SPAM actually). Recently, for reasons that
are beyond explanation, I logged into my MySpace account. This would normally
be a non-event, since I have only a few links in my MySpace profile, but this
time I noticed a strange occurrence.
During the time that I was logged in on my MySpace site, I receive about 10
SPAM messages from MySpace users advertising various websites (mostly porn).
So I logged in the next day to delete the SPAM and while I was logged in, I
received another 20 messages that were porn-SPAM.
When users are punished for using your software, but they still use it, that’s great Web 2.0.
Ok, this is hilarious. The amount of MySpace SPAM I receive is directly
correlated with the amount of time I spend logged into the system. The more I
log into the system to delete the SPAM, the more SPAM I receive. Their system
actually provides a disincentive to use their site. Awesome!
Here, in a highly scientific graph, I display the effect.
As you can see, as the number of users of a site increases, the level of SPAM
sent to those users eventually reaches a SPAMularity, where the entire system
exists for the purposes of SPAM and SPAM alone. The site becomes completely
unusable for anyone other than a SPAM-bot and over time, SPAM-bots become the
site’s only users. But here’s my question…
When only SPAM-bots use MySpace, will advertisers still advertise there?
If so, I should be able to design the ultimate Web3.0 application that skips
the troublesome middle part of _being useful to users_ and _gaining traction_
and just write my own SPAM-bots. If I can feed the system enough SPAM-bots, I
should never have to have a single living, breathing user on the system, but I
should still be able to generate advertising revenue based upon the number of
users and page hits per day, right?
Ok, that’s it, I have to build this thing, but what should I call it? MySpam?
SpamBook? SpamSpace? Spamster? Email?