approached to about promotions unwanted on my cell or computer?

So our task this week was to discuss if we had ever been targeted by a unsolicited promotion or offer on our cell phone or computer. Well my answer is no, though I am particularly careful as not to click on any pop-ups or spam I don't enter contests where I think my info is going places I don't want. The closest I think I get is spam by Rogers on my cell phone occasionally offering me deals on text messaging and picture messaging. A few of my IPhone apps have push notification on special offers and such if we want, but I always turn that off so it doesn't happen. I think I am of that older demographic that still doesn't trust the Internet with their money. I have entered a coke contest by a scratch card texting a code to a 5# to text to, but I did that once, and not since. I think part of the mistrust comes from those ads on TV for text such and such for ring tones or contest is you can see whats wrong with this picture or answer this ridiculously easy question, and lets not forget jokes of the day and such. All these have a charge and you keep getting charged until you request it stopped, sounds like a scam, so I think that's where my feelings of mistrust come from. So until they seem to become more mainstream or less spammy telemarketer like, I think I'll stay away.

no cable, no radio, no problem........no way

So i lasted about 4 days, once Monday rolled around I watched television for "Chuck" and "Spartacus" I guess I could have downloaded Spartacus, and watched Chuck online streaming. but I tried it with a few shows on spacecast.com and I guess my Internet is kind of lousy, cause they either would not load up or I would get no audio. It could also be that these sites are not Mac friendly. I guess I could get use to doing all my entertainment online if I had a decent Internet connection and a big monitor say about 42 inches? cause that is the other downside of watching shows on line my 15 inch monitor doesn't compare to my 42 inch television. I also don't like how on many of the sites a show is broken up into segments, like we have short attention spans or something. making you click on another part and be forced to sit through a commercial. Now I know that a student of advertising complaining about having to sit through a commercial sounds hypocritical, but online I'm forced to sit there and watch it, there is no free will, I can surf on TV when commercials come on, or it might just be the simple face that on TV I feel I have free will on whether I watch a commercial or not, online I feel like I'm held captive.

theres an app for that for some device somewhere whether you need one or not....

I think after looking around for several of these, and they range from locator's of stores, to updates of what the business or company is doing, is slightly ridiculous. I think its another example of "Oh everyone else is doing it we better too" syndrome. Do I really need a Starbucks locater ? They are on practically every block and chances are if I go to Starbucks i have a favorite one I go to and know where it is. And all the airline ones that are out or are coming out useless, they cant get a plane to take off on time if their life depend on it and they make an app to check for status updates for your flights????? wow an app that is never right, its not even as good as a broken clock it gets the time right twice a day at least. sure there is the odd useful one IPhone have one for restaurants in areas your in and offer reviews from other users so not bad, and theirs the one which tells you where every traffic cam is on your route as like a spy version of GPS, but is it legal? Or the one by gyco insurance which gives you updates of everything pertaining to your insurance with them and bloopers and funny videos of driving accidents and stuff? is that really appropriate? I'm waiting for some truly worthy business promoting apps to come out. How about ones from pharmacies or your Doctor with a reminder program for your med or appointments? or one from your news source local to the area? which you can set up for specific alerts relevant to your interests. I would love one that is a traffic report which is for you in your area and up to date say tracks all users on the road and their movement through the GPS that most phones have and use that data to give relevant traffic stats? Nope haven't seen that one yet guess I'll have to settle for an app which tells me where the nearest theater is and whats playing at it.........