Missing Link

It’s no secret – I love technology. For the most part, I’ve quite enjoyed the dawn of social media and it’s impact on the Internet.

First, there was blogging. I love blogging – even if nobody reads what I have to write.  Then came Myspace/Facebook – while I have a facebook account, I *rarely* log in.  Then there’s Flickr for photo sharing (I use regularly), Twitter – for…. twittering, etc.

And there is one thing that binds them all….. Spambots.

My first experience with spambots – outside of receiving annoying spam email – was with my first blog, which ran on a MovableType platform. At the time there wasn’t any good way to combat comment spam because it was a new problem.  I ended up having to disable comments for a good period of time.

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