They'd sell the hairs on your head if they could

I was looking over the statistics of this website last night just to see where everyone was coming from. I noticed a sudden spike of several hundred percent in people coming here. I figured my link must have been posted somewhere and a large number of random people suddenly had access to it and dropped in. I thought It was odd because blogger.com really doesn't have the tools like other blogging sites to create "communities" or promote your site or seatch and get it out there and known. Anyways not that anyone would care much about my boring little life or what I have to say about events in the world but there are those who are willing to go to every extreme to get noticed and they will attract large numbers of people. In turn advertisers seek them and ultimately people like me out.

Regardless of who would or would not care about this site I did come across something that's a bit disturbing. This discovery came after I suddenly got "attacked" by cyber spyder robots who plastered one of my posts with fake comments disguised as everyday bloggers but with the sole aim of promoting their product or service. So when I checked the counter stats I found to my amazement a site that is selling my blogsite traffic to advertisers at a going rate based on the volume running through it. I have a link but I cannot get it to show below: So try this...copy paste the link and just add in the http before the two :// where it should be.

://blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fyulfly1011.blogspot.com%2F

It appears my site along with all the sites on this blogger site is being sold for advertising purposes. This doesn't really surprise me but to see it with a going rate and varying trends is a bit disturbing. It makes me feel like someone is selling part of me without my permission. Because I write about my life and the world around me suddenly someone is trying to profit from me. Everyone on my links also has a similar site and theirs is for sale too.Although it's probably not illegal it is just makes me feel like I should have a shower.

When I look at everyday life and how we are all inundated with advertising it sometimes make me sick. It is everywhere from escalator steps, road signs, television, movies and the Internet. I have a Videotron digital TV package $20 for 20 stations and when I flipped through them the last night I counted roughly 60% of them were showing TV ads as I ran through the channels. It's like that all the time, more advertising than programming. There is even television ads that run for 60 minutes disguesed as ligitimate TV shows...we've even created a name to justify them: "infomercials". It's as if everyone has one hand in your pocket and the other stroking your back saying how great you'd be if only you had my product. Life would be bliss.

Worse still everyday people are now willingly do it for free. This I have a hard time understanding. While Nike is willing to pay someone like Tiger Woods or an NBA star millions of dollars to promote their products kids at High Schools, Universities and even grown adults will help promote Nike by buying shirts, caps and shoes with the Nike Swoosh on it. Free advertising and the wearer gets nothing, in facts pays them to do it so in effect buys into their marketing and thinks he or she looks cool. They paid Nike for their product and agree to advertise for them for free. Why shouldn't they get a share of the profits if they in fact help promote the product line? There's even one step beyond this when some kids shave the Swoosh (insert corporate logo of your choice here) into their haircuts or start pasting it on their suped up car rear windows or as tatoos on their bodies. Do you really think Allen Iverson would wear any product logo for free? I don't think so but these giant companies sure have us convinced that it's the right thing for us to do. Advertising and promotion is necessary in order to sell the product but it's as if we've crossed a line and we no longer realize how "used" we are. Sad really.