Oh Swell
I don’t do MySpace that often anymore. Or Facebook that much either. which I got lured into because so many of my co-workers are on it. But of the two I think it’s been Facebook more these days then MySpace. But I’ll still check into MySpace every now and then.
MySpace will feed you ads tailored to your profile…meaning I get a definate gay slant to the ads I’m being fed. That’s okay with me. Better then okay actually. In a world that still seems to have trouble admitting that folks like me exist, let alone treat us fairly, it’s kinda nice to be talked to by advertisers, instead of talked past all the time.
But just now when I logged off, I got fed an ad for "Senior Dating". Swell. Just what I needed. I’m assuming this isn’t ‘Senior’ as in Senior Software Engineer.
Great. Just great. First thing in the morning and I get called a lonely old fart by MySpace. Bet I find another goddamned AARP card in the mail again tomorrow too. I must have thrown out two or three dozen of those damn things already. I’m not old. I’m at that awkward age. You know…somewhere between birth and death.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
You know we’ve come a long way, baby, when we OFFICIALLY become a market demographic! YAY us!
Now if only I could find that higher percentage of disposable income we are supposed to have….as well as the 270 sex partners a year.
And I always get dissapointed when I see those "Senior Dating" ads…..silly me always thinks they are 23 year old COLLEGE seniors!
But another hopeful, if still not a bit depressing, bit of marketing is that here, in The Epicenter Of Hate, Topeka KS, I am starting to see more and more late night commercials for Gay Dating services (Or "Party Lines")…..and its always these hot oiled buck studs saying things like "I’m here looking for YOU, people who are just like ME".
Just the very fact that I am seeing "Gay oriented" commercials that are really not so different then the bubbly blond vuluptuous vixen baiting straight guys for the same service…..Makes me kinda happy, sort of.
And some of these commercials are actually carried on LOCAL stations that can choose to run or block certain types of commercials feeding from networks.
But I have never been one for dating services and "Party Lines" (I mean, can you think of ANYTHING sillier and more useless to waste your time and money on? What could possibly be even remotely entertaining about that?)
I think for the money, I get way more "Bang for the buck" (so to speak) going to the bar and getting spending the money getting someone drunk enough to wear the beer-giggles for an evening. And THAT ends up to be a far more ‘fullfilling’ endevour, one that my imagination can almost entertain me with a cheap facimile of "romance", then anything a dating service or "Party line" could ever provide.
Too bad I don’t drink…..I think wearing some beer-goggles mySELF would be fairly productive…..but I think thats part of the reason I QUIT drinking.