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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
In order to refer more people to sign up for Revolution Money Exchange and get s free $25, I posted the offer at the Smorty Forum. Since referral links weren’t allowed, I told the members to leave me their emails so I could send them the invitation link. I could’ve just left the url to the site, but why not make some extra cash while I’m at it. I’m so greedy, but with $10 for every person you refer, I wasn’t about to pass it up.
Now most people got the message and left their emails, but there just seems to be idiots everywhere, especially when it comes to making quick cash. I’m not saying there’s necessarily something wrong with their IQ, but they are either illiterate or lacking common sense:
- They ask me to PM them. What for? Just so I can ask you again to leave your email? I thought I made that clear already I’d need it, but it doesn’t hurt to explain it again.
- They still ask me to PM them. This is when I’m starting to wonder if they are truly stupid or if they just don’t bother reading. I’m now annoyed and can’t believe that I’m repeating myself again.
- Even when I make a post saying that the $25 promotion has ended,some fools still post their emails, and one fool even asks me to pm them.
- Some people don’t even bother posting a reply. They just pm me and asks me to pm them the details. The only thing I pm-ed was pms. Those lazy fools.
- This idiot doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. I highly suspect he’s talking just for the sake of talking. Or he had an idea but then it ran away while laughing at his lack of intelligence.
- Some dimwit even had the nerve to tell me to leave her a message on his site. Har har, nice try. I was tempted to say something mean, but it turned out to be some 13 year-old girl. Which brings me to my next point…
I have nothing against elementary and middle school kids blogging and doing whatever they may be doing on the internet. I’ve been there, done that, looked like an idiot, but I’ve learned a lot and come a long way. But as much as an fool I’ve been, at least I refrained my stupidity to just on my blog and other silly 13-year old online friends. If I was posting in a forum with older people, at least I knew to control my giggling and other childish behaviors.
I could go on about this all day, but the point I’m trying to get across is that as free and uncensored as the internet is, please put away your childishness when you’re in a forum consisting of members from all age ranges. Do not assume that everyone will appreciate your “OMGZKAWAII” and think “OMGZ she’s so KAWAII”, do not pass go, and do not collect $200. I actually had to purge a former message board of mine because members were butchering the Japanese language in the most distasteful way and adding “NYA” or “KYA” to the end of every sentence while screaming things like “SUGOI DESU!”. People should be jailed for this, seriously.
On a lighter note, I’m still looking for affiliates and link exchanges 
Please contact me if interested! Thanks.
No Comments » | Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Still Tracking Down Credit Theif
Continuing on my post about some fatty using my credit card to pay for her pathetic diet, I found out that he or she used my card number again to make a $14 purchase on Scholastic Books. I also found out that the credit card is at home being kept safely by my mom, which can only mean that my credit information somehow leaked out while I was shopping online. Since it’s an Amazon credit card, and I don’t use it anywhere else but on their website, I can only conclude that
- Someone hacked into my Amazon account and got my credit information
- The checkout process isn’t as secure as Amazon claims it to be
- The lardo using my card might have kids (or perhaps the intelligence of a kid)
Either way I’ve contacted Chase, telling them that an unauthorized charge has been made again and that I demand to know who this sad excuse for a person is. I’m not too worried about the card itself since it offers 0-liability protection and they’ve refunded the previous 2 unauthorized charges. It’s just annoying to know that this person is still out there being fat, lazy, and cheap instead of being brought to justice.
This really got me thinking about the issue of credit cards. Before this, I’d sign up whenever the company offered a discount or promotion, resulting in me having at least 5 cards with different companies. Now I realize the danger of having so many cards and not being able to keep track of them all. What if the same problem happened to another card? Now I’m tempted to cancel some of the cards I rarely use and focus on using one card, preferably one with cash back.
I found this article about credit cards that offers some basic information, some of which I didn’t know until now, for first-time credit card users. I just wish I had found this earlier before applying for so many cards, then maybe I could actually turning my points into rewards and cash now. Instead, I have points across all my cards but all in very low quantity. The site also offers articles reviewing air miles credit cards and 5% cash back credit cards, the first which I already have and the latter which I plan on looking into. The Chase Freedom card looks tempting.
No Comments » | Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I’m paying for someone to lose weight
My day began with a terrible start. I lost my voice due to this hideous cold I have and it keeps me up all night hacking my lungs out. To top that I was supposed to do my persuasive speech on why active euthanasia should be legalized. Needless to say, I was unable to do that. I also missed out a precious 10-point extra credit for my accounting class. 10 extra points on my final grade gone. Oh and to add a cherry on top, it’s that time of the month. Can you say miserable?
But what really got to me was the fact that some fat miserable ass has been using my Amazon credit card to pay for their pathetic diet plan. Mind you, I have nothing against people being overweight. I have friends who are, and in normal circumstances, it’s mean to make fun of them. But when you go as low as to use someone’s credit card to pay losing the rolls on your back, then no, you really don’t deserve any respect.
I got an email from Chase saying my card was charged more than $50, which is odd considering I haven’t shopped on Amazon in ages. I go check it out and find a particularly tubby someone has been using the card to pay for some “custom diet guaranteed to lose them 50 lbs“! Wow, what a lot of bullcrap! Not only that, they’re also using the card to pay for their monthly Netflix service! Right now I’m picturing some sad pudgy girl sitting at home watching movies while munching on caramel butter popcorn while trying to do leg stretches. And all I want to do is go there and shove her face in the bowl of popcorn and break her glasses, one for using my card and two for believing in those miracle diets.
I’ve called Chase and they said they’d take care of it for me, and being the curious and mean girl I am, I asked if they could tell me who the person that used my card was, should they ever find out. They owe me at least that much. Ironic how I made a post on identity theft protection earlier. The idea is starting to appeal to me now.
1 Comment » | Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
PayPerPost
I joined this site after hearing about it from a friend and doing some research on similar sites that pays you to blog. Now that my site has 10 posts within the past 30 days, PayPerPost finally approved it. The idea of being able to make money by blogging seemed like a very appealing idea at that time, and it still does now that I’ve been paid by other similar sites.
There are controversies out there about these pay-you-to-blog sites though. Some people think that by doing this, we the bloggers are:
- providing misleading information by posting on subjects in which we have little to no knowledge of
- helping the advertisers increase PageRank through the whole buying and selling links scheme
I never realized the negative side of writing sponsored posts until I read about this, and the sad thing is that these arguments are legit. However, there are always two sides of looking at things. Since I’m no expert when it comes to PageRank or SEO (search engine optimization), I won’t discuss the second issue. I will, however, talk about the first one.
I agree that by participating in these paid-to-blog sites, some of the entries you are required to write about can be a bit drab (like bad debt or hotels in Europe) and chances are, you’ll have little to no knowledge about the subject. However, even if you posted 10 entries on random subjects like these, I don’t understand why anyone would try looking for legit information on a non-professional weblog. As a matter of fact, when I searched “bad debt” on Google, the first page of results that came up were either from government websites or other reliable sources. I’ve looked through the first couple pages, and the results either came from reliable/professional sites or they didn’t. None came from blogs, which brings me to my second point and third point.
Even if there were no paid to blog sites, these buying and selling link schemes would still continue and people could still have websites with bogus information that pops up as the number one search result in Google. It’s been like this since I’ve started using the internet, it’s still like this today, and chances are it’ll still be like this tomorrow. I feel like it’s up to us the searchers to be able to filter out reliable sources from bogus ones, which is why all your teachers in high school and college tell you that you shouldn’t use Google search to find reliable sources! By posting sponsored posts we the bloggers might be contributing to this, but just how significant is that increase? I always considered it common sense to use the databases provided by my school for formal research papers, but heck, what do I know, i’m just a college kid.
So forgive me for being a bitch, but the first argument is absolutely stupid. Why are people complaining about blogs providing them misleading information through sponsored posts when in fact, they really shouldn’t be doing school research through Google in the first place? And forget that most schools provide great online databases to find information, there are lots of free online databases that elementary school kids can use if they want. But if they’re going to consider blogs a legit source, much like my first grade classmate Sam considering Lion King a legitimate source, then yes, lions really do live on Pride Rock.
So should you join this paid-to-blog bandwagon? Sure, why not. It’s your blog, you write what you want and do with it what you want. If you want to make a little extra on the side with it, I don’t see a problem with it either. Hop on over to PayPerPost to get started.
If you think it’s evil and should be banned from the face of the earth, I respect your choice too. All I ask is that you respect ours too.
P.S. My opinions about paid to blog are in no way associated with PayPerPost. I just thought it’d be easier for me if I talked about the whole paid-to-blog issue in one post instead of two.
2 Comments » | Sunday, May 4th, 2008
MATH
Did I ever mention how deeply and passionately I DESPISE math? It is the single most boring and sleep-inducing subject ever, and what irks me even more is the fact that I ALREADY learned all in high school. Ugh now I wish I took AP calculus because I knew I could have passed it with flying colors. Now I’m stuck hear learning derivatives ALL over again and it sucks butt because I can’t remember a thing.
Poo.
