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sierciaI got this random e-mail today.
Dear Jennifer,
Okay, I will start from the beginning and maybe you will get why I am writing and be intrigued enough to write back. I was looking up my name in a new search engine I was trying out (alltheweb.com) to see what came up (my litmus test for any search engine) and saw your site among them.
Jennifer Cox is a fairly common name, so it wasn't your name that caught my interest so much as your description of yourself. Your tone of voice sounded like mine. I clicked on your site and WOW! you even look a little like me. Maybe not twins, but I think we could pass for cousins at least!
I had to write because it was a little too freaky! Among the things we have in common (so far)
have the same name (but if you tell me you're middle name is Lynn, I'll faint!)
About the same age (I think I am a couple of years older)
look similar (See attached file: me.jpg)This is the only picture I had to send now, I have others that show our similarities much better.
both travelled cross country by car (okay I was in a Toyota camper, so you get more points for style) and lived to tell the tale
both love cats
both write using lots of parenthetical statements (or haven't you noticed?)
Things we don't have in common
I am single, no kids (your little one is sooo cute, by the way!)
I live in the San Francisco bay area and have never been further east than Saratoga Springs, NY
I am sending my picture along. If you see the resemblance and want to email me back, please do so at ma***@yahoo.com
This is my work email and I don't normally use it, but I thought this email would get your attention. If you have no interest/think I look nothing like you/ think I'm completely insane, feel free to delete this and never think of it again - until it haunts your dreams :)
Hope to hear from you,
Jennifer Cox
Now, I'm no dummy, I'm not opening the attachment here, since I have no virus software (I'll scan it and open it at work tomorrow). But the rest of the mail is... intriguing. The work address the mail came from looks like a real address, and lots of people use yahoo for their personal mail. BUT, if I search for myself on the search site she references, I get no hits. My employee profile for MerlinOne comes up about 3 pages in, as per usual, but I didn't find my personal site (also per usual, it doesn't come up on most sites, which is fine by me).
So, I'm curious. Was someone so bored they went through god knows how many pages of hits on their own name and found my site, and was then compelled to write? Did she have some special search that found me? Or is this some elaborate scheme to get traffic for a new search site?
And what does it say about my level of jaded-ness that I instantly thought it was some bizarre scam?
Dear Jennifer,
Okay, I will start from the beginning and maybe you will get why I am writing and be intrigued enough to write back. I was looking up my name in a new search engine I was trying out (alltheweb.com) to see what came up (my litmus test for any search engine) and saw your site among them.
Jennifer Cox is a fairly common name, so it wasn't your name that caught my interest so much as your description of yourself. Your tone of voice sounded like mine. I clicked on your site and WOW! you even look a little like me. Maybe not twins, but I think we could pass for cousins at least!
I had to write because it was a little too freaky! Among the things we have in common (so far)
have the same name (but if you tell me you're middle name is Lynn, I'll faint!)
About the same age (I think I am a couple of years older)
look similar (See attached file: me.jpg)This is the only picture I had to send now, I have others that show our similarities much better.
both travelled cross country by car (okay I was in a Toyota camper, so you get more points for style) and lived to tell the tale
both love cats
both write using lots of parenthetical statements (or haven't you noticed?)
Things we don't have in common
I am single, no kids (your little one is sooo cute, by the way!)
I live in the San Francisco bay area and have never been further east than Saratoga Springs, NY
I am sending my picture along. If you see the resemblance and want to email me back, please do so at ma***@yahoo.com
This is my work email and I don't normally use it, but I thought this email would get your attention. If you have no interest/think I look nothing like you/ think I'm completely insane, feel free to delete this and never think of it again - until it haunts your dreams :)
Hope to hear from you,
Jennifer Cox
Now, I'm no dummy, I'm not opening the attachment here, since I have no virus software (I'll scan it and open it at work tomorrow). But the rest of the mail is... intriguing. The work address the mail came from looks like a real address, and lots of people use yahoo for their personal mail. BUT, if I search for myself on the search site she references, I get no hits. My employee profile for MerlinOne comes up about 3 pages in, as per usual, but I didn't find my personal site (also per usual, it doesn't come up on most sites, which is fine by me).
So, I'm curious. Was someone so bored they went through god knows how many pages of hits on their own name and found my site, and was then compelled to write? Did she have some special search that found me? Or is this some elaborate scheme to get traffic for a new search site?
And what does it say about my level of jaded-ness that I instantly thought it was some bizarre scam?
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Date: 2002-08-28 08:24 pm (UTC)I'll be honest, I've hunted down people I knew from high school and emailed them, just to say hi, because I needed someone to talk to.