It seems my blog readership is primarily spam bots. Two bot attempts to comment on my blog were blocked today. All comments must be approved by me before being posted. I emailed both “people” or bots who tried to comment and I got error messages for both. Neither e-mail address exists or could be found.<\/p>\n
I’ve encountered the bot security procedures where I have identify “all the pictures containing cars\/boats\/bicycles”. In general, I have to prove “I am not a bot”. The question arises how much bot activity is on the internet?<\/p>\n
I spoke to a representative of my hosting service about these spam bot issues. I can attach a captcha bot detection service to screen out bots, but have to pay for this. At the same time, I want to know what percentage, likely miniscule, of actual humans interested in my content come to my blog. I had 22 “visitors” to my blog in one day about a week ago, attempting to comment, so I emailed each individually under the false presumption humans were attached to these email addresses. I thanked each for visiting my blog and wanted to know how they found it, would appreciate any input, etc. I got 5 error messages immediately. None of the 17 remaining blog visitors emailed me back.<\/p>\n
Bot World extends beyond the internet. I’ve had two bot (spam) phone calls today. One was selling me car insurance. I went along with the bot person calling me. I told her I already had Geico (cheap) car insurance. She asked if I was a homeowner or renter, and I asked why is that relevant for car insurance. Big pause. Her script or “bot programming” does not have a reply ready for my open-ended question. Thus, her option was to transfer me to I forget where. I answer my phone to investigate this Bot World I inhabit.<\/p>\n
2nd phone call: For the 500th time I got a call about social security disability, due to my non-existent inquiry into that which they claim exists. I told the person in the midst of their bot script their information is false, false that I inquired about or sought to obtain social security disability benefits. Of course I blocked this number as I have done 500 times before. But the Bot World circulates this false information and I will get more Bot calls. Just like I get Bot visitors to my blog.<\/p>\n
Folks, this Information Superhighway Al Gore told us about two decades is a dystopian cesspool of Bot BS and trigger-inducing click-baiting social media. I play around on facebook, instagram, twitter, and recently got into Tik Tok shlock.<\/p>\n
I wonder how many actual humans will read this. If you’re human, thanks for stopping by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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