In the space of two minutes I visited two MySpace pages. I try and avoid MySpace wherever possible, but I was following links to a couple of bands from a friend’s blog. At the top of each page was a banner:
Blog 1, banner 1: Congratulations, you are the 1,000,000th visitor! You’ve won a laptop! Click here to claim!
Blog 2, banner 2: You are the 999,999th visitor! Congratulations you WON! Click here to claim!
I couldn’t believe it! Twice in two minutes I managed to be the winner of two separate competitions! It gets better though.
I then returned later in the evening to a completely different MySpace page and discovered that I had won yet another laptop!
This was either an extremely lucky day for me, or I was the victim of some primitive internet advertising. I know where I’d put my money (and yours for that matter).
It’s interesting that the internet has advanced in so many ways yet we still see advertisements like this that first appeared on the internet 15 years ago. I wonder who clicks on these tacky, flashing ads? Probably the same people who send money in response to the Nigerian e-mail scams.
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