Buck Stops For Web Panhandlers
from the nice-try dept
When this whole "cyberbegging" or "e-panhandling" craze started last year, I doubted that many sites would do very well after the initial success of SaveKaryn. Wired News has checked around and found that most begging sites haven't brought in very much money at all. Many actually give up after a few weeks, which isn't a real surprise. These people are mostly lazy, by definition, so without a quick return they're not likely to stick to it. The reason the first one worked was because it was something different and got some attention mostly for being so gutsy to ask people for money for no good reason. Each copycat site has less novelty, and no particular reason to bother checking out. In fact, Wired News reported that they couldn't even reach the people behind many of these sites (who could have benefited from the free publicity the site would have given them).
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E-panhandling is just silly. It's almost as silly as AIM mugging. Where people get on instnant messenger and start threatening people for passwords. Sillyness. But e-pandhandling isn't any better than real panhandling. I'll tell the e-pandhandlers just like I tell the real ones.
GET A FUCKING JOB!
There, I feel better now.
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