DISQUS

I've used it for job searching and selling items. Similar experience. I do tend to get more spam after replying to items, etc. I'm quite curious about the increase of your spam after responding to those uninterested parties.

I know no one is probably following this any more--a year later, but I'll put in my two bits--reading novels really is good for your brain. It's great we have the internet for the information, nonfiction stuff, that interests us and that we need to know--but the fiction world allows your brain to organize thougths in a different way that can be very valuable in developing logical thinking processes, as well as allowing your imagination to work, which is really very important for spiritual, emotional and intellectual reasons.

I'm just finding you now--good to find you! (Do you remember me? Danielle's old roommate?) Anyway--yes, ditto--especially the "our options have change"--I had a temp job at a company and did some airline booking for a DVP and their line had that on it. Six months later, I came back to that temp job and the phone line had the same message. I wondered how long ago those options changed? Anyway, I would also add the language barrier I've too often run into even after I've gotten a real person on the line. They don't use colloquial American and since I'm not a computer guru, it's not at all helpful for me to have them tell me the specific real names of things when they want me to do something. I ranted a little about that on my blog in March, too, curiously enough: