Dj Skunk Diesel

First of all I am going to get slightly technical here so if you were looking for a lighthearted funny blog go HERE I have added the #FormspringTheseNuts tweets to the Rant section.

Ok so I have had it with formspring autopost! Yes I know I did an ‘Ask Skunk’ portion of my blog inspired by the fad, but I am not a hypocrite because it is not the idea of anonymous questioning that I am against. It is the way formspring has gone about setting up the autopost option by default and the way the autopost tweets are composed.

Let me explain. The autopost tweets usually do not have the full question OR the full answer, but they DO have the full un-shortened URL to lead you back to formspring. And when a messages comes to me electronically no matter who is it from that contains very little useful content and a link back to something outside of the requested information then I would consider it spam. Yes it is in relation to somebody that I have requested information from via my follow, but as stated before, it is usually useless unless I follow the spam link to a place that may or may not contain the information I have requested.

That being said, I am letting it be known that I consider these autopost to be SPAM. Continue to send me spam and I will either unfollow you or if you are an old and dear friend I will add you to the group of people who’s tweets are filtered out of my stream. At that point I will not see any of your tweets unless they contain my username. If you don’t care then by all means continue with the spam.

I am not trying to tell you how to tweet. Yes I understand that if you are somebody who never got much attention that formspring might be your new favorite thing to do because it gives you the illusion of being popular. Maybe you didn’t know, but formspring will automatically ask you a pre-written question of you do not get questioned after a certain time period. This will lead you to go answer it and that will lead to an autopost to twitter which will cause people to go look and possibly ask another question. You see it is an endless loop of retardedness. Oh and another thing, I have a feeling that most of the time it is the same one or two people asking all the questions. Take that shit to DM! I don’t wanna see it. If I did I would GO LOOK AT YOUR FORMSPRING!

Now I would like to rant about something else that I think people don’t consider. Your picture/username are your unique identifier on twitter. When people are looking through their timeline their brain quickly processes which users they are seeing and whether or not to REALLY read the tweet and see what the person is saying. This is part of the reason I never change my picture much. If I changed it to a yellow bunny rabbit people would more than likely skim right over the first few tweets after the change not knowing it was me and not read those tweets. I do it all the time with other people. When I am pressed for time and glance down at my twitter app on my phone sometimes I have 2 minutes and 200 tweets that I have missed. I can’t possibly read them all. So I skim through looking for the users who I value their tweets the most and read/star the ones I feel deserve it. Here comes the formspring delima. Now there are good friends/users who I used to always stop and read their tweets who I now have to first check to see if it is formspring or not. Whether I like it or not some of them I have already trained my mind to skim past instead of read. There are no two ways about it. Over time it is bound to happen. Keep sending out BS and eventually nobody will read it. Lets hope you have read this and will take it into consideration. I don’t want to lose you as a friend, but if you continue to use your account to send out this spam I will have to act in some way.