{"id":273,"date":"2010-08-22T21:10:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T04:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:30","slug":"its-my-life-my-telephone-my-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/opinions-on-politics-culture-society\/its-my-life-my-telephone-my-email\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s My Life, My Telephone, My Email."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It always amazes me how absolutely stupid businesses and marketers are. \u00a0You&#8217;d think they&#8217;d get a clue&#8230;but they don&#8217;t. \u00a0Well, here it is spelled out: It&#8217;s MY telephone. \u00a0I pay for it. \u00a0You don&#8217;t. \u00a0That means that it&#8217;s MY tool, MY communication device, to use when I wish. \u00a0It is NOT your ticket to my ear. \u00a0If and when YOU start paying the bill, maybe then you have a right to use it&#8230;but I won&#8217;t be listening. \u00a0Same with my email, and the same with my life. \u00a0Go suck something toxic. \u00a0Oh, and, just so you know, the more messages you leave, the more spam you send, the more junk mail and packages you leave in my real mailbox and at my front door, the more you receive bad marks and bad press, and, psst, everybody knows word of mouth advertising, bad or good, is the very best advertising money CAN&#8217;T buy. *snicker* \u00a0Ah&#8230;Facebook folks? \u00a0You might take a page from this for yourself. \u00a0Don&#8217;t think your solicitations go unnoticed. \u00a0They don&#8217;t. \u00a0They get you LOADS of bad press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always amazes me how absolutely stupid businesses and marketers are. \u00a0You&#8217;d think they&#8217;d get a clue&#8230;but they don&#8217;t. \u00a0Well, here it is spelled out: It&#8217;s MY telephone. \u00a0I pay for it. \u00a0You don&#8217;t. \u00a0That means that it&#8217;s MY tool, MY communication device, to use when I wish. \u00a0It is NOT your ticket to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}