Gordaen’s Blog

I did my monthly logging in to MySpace in order to delete the various spam friend requests and was greeted by the advertisement seen in the screenshot when I logged out. Big changes were made in Internet advertising when the thought of “context” was introduced; an ad for video games is more likely to be successful on a webpage about video games. Thus far, I hadn’t seen an advertisement that capitalized on the type of visitor in this way. Certainly many/most regular MySpace users are not intellectual people…

Still, I do wonder about a “dummy test.” Normally you take a test to prove what you are. You take a driver’s ed. test to show that you are educated about driving. You take a reading proficiency test to show that you can read proficiently. Do you take a dummy test to show that you are dumb? Unfortunately, I didn’t click on the advertisement, because I think it was trying to get someone else’s attention.