Friday, October 14, 2011
Tonight on "Is This Normal?" October 14, 2011
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Yes, this is a different blog
Not that anyone reads this, but the former filthybookreaderdot blogger got deleted- not by choice.
Long story short, I set up a gmail account for my android phone against by best instincts. I inherited the phone used, from a friend, and indignantly did.not.want.one.more.friggin.email at the time I got the phone. The internet browser worked just fine without gmail. And I kept getting told about "importing my Contacts." What the hell? You mean email? I don't email from my phone!! Sorry, call me Old, but I have enough with getting on my laptop a couple times during the day. The phone is for phone calls. My attitude was "screw you android and verizon... I don't want to be told I have to 'sign up' for something for services I don't even use. But in a moment of weakness I set up a gmail from the phone so I could log in and listen to Pandora or Last FM or whatever... dumb. dumb. dumb.
I connected my primary emails to this stupid gmail and got hacked. Sorry, nonbelievers, but it's the only explanation that makes sense. Feel free to, um, Google It! "android gmail hack" or whatever combination. I have other email addresses with the same server as my primary emails and they did not hacked. The hack didn't orginate with my laptop... it was the stupid gmail on my android. Hate you gmail. Hate you Google. I was sick to my stomach... I had had those primary emails for over a decade and they were part of my business. I deleted the gmail, but Google, in its infinite wisdom (not) had connected my old Google account with old primary email and my original Filthy Book Reader Blog to this fucking new gmail. I was willing to take the chance of losing the blog because I was so sick and paranoid about being hacked that I deleted, deleted, deleted. It's not not like there was anything particularly brilliant in the old Filthy Book Reader blog. Hell, who is brilliant anymore? I have about 5 years worth of writing on MySpace that I don't even look at anymore. No one looks at it. Everyone and their grandma has a blog.
So it's "The" Filthy Book Reader now. On with the show............
Long story short, I set up a gmail account for my android phone against by best instincts. I inherited the phone used, from a friend, and indignantly did.not.want.one.more.friggin.email at the time I got the phone. The internet browser worked just fine without gmail. And I kept getting told about "importing my Contacts." What the hell? You mean email? I don't email from my phone!! Sorry, call me Old, but I have enough with getting on my laptop a couple times during the day. The phone is for phone calls. My attitude was "screw you android and verizon... I don't want to be told I have to 'sign up' for something for services I don't even use. But in a moment of weakness I set up a gmail from the phone so I could log in and listen to Pandora or Last FM or whatever... dumb. dumb. dumb.
I connected my primary emails to this stupid gmail and got hacked. Sorry, nonbelievers, but it's the only explanation that makes sense. Feel free to, um, Google It! "android gmail hack" or whatever combination. I have other email addresses with the same server as my primary emails and they did not hacked. The hack didn't orginate with my laptop... it was the stupid gmail on my android. Hate you gmail. Hate you Google. I was sick to my stomach... I had had those primary emails for over a decade and they were part of my business. I deleted the gmail, but Google, in its infinite wisdom (not) had connected my old Google account with old primary email and my original Filthy Book Reader Blog to this fucking new gmail. I was willing to take the chance of losing the blog because I was so sick and paranoid about being hacked that I deleted, deleted, deleted. It's not not like there was anything particularly brilliant in the old Filthy Book Reader blog. Hell, who is brilliant anymore? I have about 5 years worth of writing on MySpace that I don't even look at anymore. No one looks at it. Everyone and their grandma has a blog.
So it's "The" Filthy Book Reader now. On with the show............
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