Transformers 3?: Twitter Autobots Vs Spam Decepticons
The other day I went to see a truly awesome film - Transformers 2. Yes, it is escapism, cheesy and full of unadulterated action, but it is a great way to spend two and a half hours!
For those of you who are not transformer fans, it is a classic story of good Vs evil - the good Autobots (led by Optimus Prime) Vs the evil Decepticons (led by Megatron).
I just wonder, did the creator - Simon Furman - of The Transformers see the vision of Twitter or Facebook or spamming many years ago, just interpreting it in a creative way?
No, I haven't lost the plot here......just think about it for the moment.
What is currently the scourge of Twitter and Facebook? Spammers and merciless internet marketers!
They try to get us to part with money for the latest, quickest, 'guaranteed' way to make money, or they try and get all our bank details. They use many different ways to 'trick us' into clicking on their links - and, to be fair, some of them are very clever. While there are a few genuinely useful products out there, the majority are just deceptive money making schemes and malicious ways to gain access to your computer to take over the world! I give you the Decepticons!
In defence of the 'evil force' are Optimus Prime's 'Autobots'. They are all the automated tools that Twitter, Facebook, email systems and Firewalls etc use every day to try and stop the invasion of the 'evil' spammers and marketers - the 'Decepticons'.
Either side wins battles but every single day this battle rages on relentlessly.
Twitter has inadvertently helped the rise of these 'Decepticons', with the desire to produce ever shortening URL's like bit.ly, tinyurl etc. so that Twitter users can cram more into their 140 character limit. These have helped direct people to websites that they wouldn't previously have gone near, and this, unfortunately, will only get worse.
The Autobots will fight back and will find ways of stopping them.....until the next time, and the next and the next. For the future of Twitter and the internet, we all need them to win more battles than they lose!





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