I believe my time as a TwitSpam-aholic may be over, as one of my new major’s professors has given me the solution to the incessant spammage:
She doesn’t seem upset, but I also don’t want her to think I’m an idiot whose Twitter always gets hacked. So for now, my SpamTweet (again, no one’s voting! Give me some feedback, people! 
) addiction has been squelched, hopefully for the better. It will be interesting to see if I’m nearly as cool when I’m not spamming people.
This professor did recommend a book to us in class the other day, titled The Spam Book. Being the nerd I am, I became fascinated with the effect that TwitSpam/SpamTweet (again, please comment) was having on my life, so knew I had to have it. The authors reinforce my belief that spam and viruses have been stigmatized by society, and that, dangerous as these entities may be, their existence isn’t as black and white as “a ‘bad’ code threatening to destroy a ‘good’ system” (41… get the book and read along!). I think a good number of my classmates – classmates I would not have befriended were it not for my involuntary spamming, I might add – are also beginning to view viral systems through this lens, and removing the societal & semantic negativity surrounding the terms. This isn’t to say that spam is good, however. Rather, the question is what factors in the online communication lead to its existence.
As a tribute to this newfound intellectualism on the topic of spam, I have changed my blog’s theme to something more Hitchcockian, a nod to the outdated and exaggerated plot of ‘bad bird code’ threatening the ‘good human system’. The blog itself has been rechristened “Spam: The Online Anomaly”. “On the Road to Greatness” did sound pretty corny, after all. I’ve also stopped capitalizing the word “spam,” as I see the lower case ‘s’ as necessary to successfully embracing it into our vocabulary not as a monstrous, capitalized virus or threat (like Ebola or Taliban), but as a welcome, everyman member of American lexicon. Like jimmy stewart. Lastly, my tags are straying away from my college freshman experience and more into this world that I have engulfed myself in. Still, I hope you all keep reading!
