Learning To Accept SPAM’s Place In Your Life

by | Aug 28, 2006

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Like many busy people who rely on the interweb today, Jory des Jardins, one of the co-founders of BlogHer, gets buried in email, particularly the unwanted kind. Yet she keeps her sense of humor about it–not an easy thing to do with persistent electronic intruders.

I’ve stopped looking at SPAM as the problem and begun to look at the bright side of including it in my life. I know that if I don’t receive it, something is most certainly wrong with my computer or internet connection. It’s the equivalent of a breathing machine; it provides a din of normalcy that I’m used to.