Invitation - no thanks!

Among the emails describing fresh American disasters are frequent invitations to improve this website. My hosting platform, Dashlane, is good enough to warn me that such invitations might be spam, and to say so if I think they are; the answer is invariably yes. It’s not that they don’t feature really good consultants; one helped some years ago with another site and almost refused to be paid because the task was simple for him as opposed to impossible for me. Thr spam messages here are telling me how much money I am going to make on this site with their help. They obviously are trolling for addresses without ever taking a look at the content.

The clue is that they know nothing about the site. It’s not intended to make money. I note that any recommendations that I very occasionally make have no connection with any source of payment. I’m not intending to be a big time influencer at this stage of life; I’m just having fun writing occasionally as I have been doing onlne since 1995.

Linkedin is handy as a source of getting in touch with people. My site is still there and I am clearly marked as retired. Nevertheless several universities think it would be a good idea for me to start an MBA. I’m also told that x number of people have visited my Linkedin Site with a view of employing me.

Then there are the spam phonecalls. The lady speaking Mandarin or Cantonese leaves frequent messages and I may be missing out on something wonderful, who knows? There are all those parttime marketing jobs on offer too.

I’m not exactly born yesterday to put it mildly. But I have been around the block more than once in the last 24 hours. Delete becomes the most important button on the keyboard.