“Have you heard of the new Facebook?” he asks with a glass of red wine in hand.
This would have to be a first, him telling me about something new on the interwebthingy.
“No, what is it?”
“A woodbeet thing. I keep getting emails from them. I never click.” He sounds so convincingly innocent.
“You mean in your spam folder?”
“No, in my inbox. I’ll show you.”
With my curiosity piqued, and the laptop fired up, we huddle around the wide screen.
“See?” He points at the inconspicuous preview in gmail’s inbox. “It says ‘Hey Woodbit, [some hot chick name] wants to meet you’ and –“
“It’s addressed to your email address!” I interrupt. His look of innocence hasn’t faltered. “Open it.”
He clicks the message open, the photos in the message body are hidden.
“Click on ‘Display Images below’.” I egg him on.
He does. And a photo of a naked woman flashing her huge assets at the camera is displayed, with an open invitation… to hook up.
“Ha!” I let out an accusatory laugh. “You’ve joined some pr0n site! Of course they’re sending you stuff!”
“I haven’t! I never give out my email address! I don’t know any Woodbit or [some hot chick name]!”
Right. I ask him to hover over the link then we type it in the browser and hello Fling site!
“I swear I didn’t….” he continues with excuses then suddenly interrupts himself with, “Look at this one! Tiny waist. Big tits. Fake. Oh that’s ugly! ”
We peruse the site critiquing tiny photos until he points to the drop down list to search profiles. “So, what are we looking for?”
“Couple seeking Men,” I reply with a cheesy grin. He obliges, and some hideous male photos and wanker profiles are displayed.
But I’m not letting him off easily. “The new Facebook, hey??”
He shakes his head.
“Woodbit!!”
May 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I have a face book account I doubt I could remember my password. I have a myspace page which I started so I could talk to my sister who has a page. I get all sorts of invites from all sorts of barbies. I really do not search the web for porn, but then again I recieve so many emails from friends to “look at this” that maybe thats how they track me down. I dunno, but I would give him the benefit of the doubt. Porn comes to my business email and I have not searched porn on my business site ever? So there goes that theory, I figure its just web crawlers selling emails to porn vendors. Not that there is anything wrong with that….Cheers JW
May 7th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
It sounds like it’s a site for men that want nothing better than to flash their woody bits.
That would have been the first clue in.
Good thing I didn’t claim to have joined it before it became cool.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
You know, eight beers into a night, people look positively beautiful in the neon glow of closing time, and even better in the blue night on the drive to their place. But fuck, put those same pasty somewhat floppy people in front of a webcam with bad house lighting and and a dead sober audience and it looks like indolence and desperation rolled into a wet tortilla.
I don’t know how anyone finds a person through swinger sites.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
JW: What got me was that in order to even view that site, you had to create an account and login, so someone must have either used a wrong email or somehow his ended up there. Or crawlers as you say, in any case, it was good for a laugh!
Kami: More women than men from what I saw. By the way, the names were changed to protect the guilty.. or the innocent!
Casey: You paint such a realistic picture, it’s frightening. And I guess it depends on what they’re looking for.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
OK fess up… how many of you typed http://www.woodbeet.com into a browser?!
May 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
gboy: Looks like you did! And I did, after reading this comment. In fact, I’m going to reply to that email addy right now…
May 7th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I’m going to hurry up and delete my “Grad School E-rect” profile on that page. I don’t need this level of scrutiny.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Maybe somebody that knows his email address joined him as a joke.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:50 am
GSR: Too late. Already been scrutinised!!
Zen: Could well be. I’m going to ask… and I’m wondering who would…
Cléa: Interesting how the men are defending him!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
GAH to GSR’s comment!
May 8th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Think about the amount of pornography on the Internet.
Wait, think of something smaller. Like the size of the galaxy.
I think about how much I struggled in my youth to get my hands on pornography; the apex of my pornographic collection at 15 years old was a half-torn copy of Hustler that had been stashed behind a trash can. Every twelve year old that has Internet access has seen more vaginas than I did until I was 18, and probably more breasts than any of my ancestors. The converse, of course, is that I was able to avoid looking at any other men’s genitals as long as I wanted. I could skip or close my eyes in gym class showers, but any errant click these days reveals some dude showing his package. If you laid all of the penises on the Internet end-to-end, they would reach to Mars, encircle it, and return, the last one appearing on your computer screen.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
EM: Mwahaha!!!
Mahd: In other words, what’s a bit of T&A and penises when compared to Mahd’s big bang theory?
With the ease availability, are we becoming desensitised to it, in all its forms?
As for the image of penises aligned, encircling Mars and back, is it like Hands Across America…