Myspace: a place for highly inconvenient spam protection
She clicked the “send message” button and waited. Expecting to see her message had been sent, she was slightly put off to see a box containing a series of wavy, squiggly letters and numbers. Like algebra on acid.
“Please enter the text from the image above:
The letters are not case-sensitive.
Do not type spaces between the numbers and letters.”
Sigh. What is this? I’m never usually required to type a code…
She typed: df6y87v….or was that a “w”? Ah hell.
_Refresh
A new set: 74tmg4fx. Enter
Yet another series of characters.
What? I know I typed that right…I can hardly read these anyways. The “m” is practically sideways and half-overlapped by the “g”...shit
A new series. Clear as day. No mistakes this time: nrue8wh.
“Incorrect verification code. Please try again. Please enter the image text.”
I did! I fucking did! How did it not register?! Son of a…
She goes to her friend’s page, and clicks the “comment” button.
“I tried to send you a message. It didn’t work. Myspace can kiss my ass.”