Hi Norm,
The internet is a fantastic device. However, it is open to all the hijackers and spoof-artists as well as the decent folk who are offering good information. So-called "Gurus" abound. I get so much rubbish sent my way. It is like having a pile of cowshit dumped on your head at regular intervals. It smells and you just have to keep brushing it off.
Excuse moi for the lingo. But, just because something is published on the internet doesn't make it part of the Gospel. Heck, most of what IS on the internet is indeed - TRASH! You therefore need to be a good sifter.
With regard to "pay to surf" scams - they are just more trash. If anybody spent just one nanosecond to think about it then they would realise that almost all of them are fraudulent time wasters designed to take money out of your wallet or purse and place it into somebody else's. I detest frauds.
Unfortunately, so many people are lured by the tantalising promises of big bucks for zilch effort. THAT is just pure garbage.
Gee... trash, garbage and junk seem to feature a lot in my language of late. Unfortunately, Norm, all the dingoes (wolves - US and Canada) are circling. They are getting bolder and more and more desperate for fresh meat. Fresh meat on the internet = newbies and suckers.
Is anybody else sick and tired of getting the latest - teleseminar-you've-gotta-get-on-this-call hype? I get about a dozen a week. Almost as many as the join my matrix sect.
I don't give a flying fig about the Yannick Golbergers and the Jerry Jeff Pauls and the Mark Joint Smokers of this world. They can use all the social engineering techniques they like and none of them are gonna work. Well, not on me anyway. Obviously, like the perennial Nigerian letters, they are working on some folk. Then it just gets harder for the Real McCoys to maintain their credibility.
I believe in working hard and working smart and offering value. That is how you get ahead. Not by being some sort of false god or recommended by some dickhead from dickheadsville. Oh dear, blame that gaffe on my red wine. Pepperjack. Quite a nice drop, in fact.
Some time ago Linda put out the call for ANYBODY at Adland to prove their pudding. Nobody nominated themselves. How sad. Hundreds, in fact, thousands, of people are therefore FAKING it. Is that fair? Is it honest?
I don't think so.
I value an exchange of ideas and information so much more highly than an offer to join some goofy, kooky Waldo Pepper scheme.
Ouch, I just sprained my ankle jumping down off the soapbox.
Gary