By now, most of you have probably seen the horrific spectacle of a weblog post about a celebrity gathering comments from clueless web users who inexplicably believe they have found said celebrity’s contact form, or at least some online go-between. I’ve received, to a much smaller extent, comments for Kris Aquino and Bro Eddie, causing me to wonder whether people in general even read webpages before submitting feedback. (I imagine that if this entry about Miriam Defensor Santiago were still open, it might also gather a few nuts, seeing how it nears the top of a Google search.)
Most amusing by far was the contact form email I received from an irate AOL subscriber wishing to cancel her service, who found this entry. It makes you wonder: this person knew enough to do a web search, find a contact form link, and submit it. Wouldn’t she have known enough to look at a URL and read an entry to figure out that I am not, in fact, AOL?
Another thing, I believe the web is a bit poorer for the loss of fan mail sent to Chris O’Donnell intended for the actor. Bring back the mail, Chris!
Update: Well, all it needed was a little hunting: Chris O’Donnell’s fan mail! And how could I forget the Sassy Lawyer’s Kris/Ruffa thread? Plus, check out Keith Devens’ Jessica Lynch post. (At least we’ve had nothing so bad as, “Dear Die Hard, you rock!”)
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Actually, the mail is still there – I just never added a link on the archive page when I redesigned 6 months ago. I’ll fix that!
as one commenter pointed out – that maury (whoever he is) thing is the single greates thing i have ever seen on the internet. i laughed for ages.
Dear Kris Aquino, Bro Eddie, Miriam Defensor Santiago and Chris O’Donnell,
It’s great to see you are all working together and working in one place now. As you have all taken requests individually so far, I can only imagine what asking all four of you will do! Please could you help me, I really really want an Imac. Thanks.
Sparticus
Keith picked up some Jessica lynch stuff at one point
http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2003/Apr/04/JessicaLynch#comments
Have you seen the comments on my old entry on the supposed blogs of Kris Aquino and Ruffa Gutierrez on LJ?
It was amusing until I got tired of it and closed the commenting.
http://houseonahill.net/index.php/weblog/comments/blogs-of-kris-aquino-and-ruffa-gutierrez/
“Most amusing by far was the contact form email I received from an irate AOL subscriber wishing to cancel her service, who found this entry. It makes you wonder: this person knew enough to do a web search, find a contact form link, and submit it. Wouldn’t she have known enough to look at a URL and read an entry to figure out that I am not, in fact, AOL?”
Think about this, Pau. She’s an AOL user. How savvy could she be?
The same thing happened to me with my post on Jacqueline Saburido (http://www.spankgranny.com/archives/2003_11.html#000148).
I admire the intention, but the execution leaves much to be desired. Some people just don’t get it.
I get those kind of posts for my entry on Apl.de.Ap.
I feel really bad when people leave prayer requests for Billy Graham. All I did was talk about his website on one of my posts. I did forward the prayer requests to billygraham.org though.