It does seem very much like the junk emails we all receive promising stuff and the infomercials on TV, etc. that all work with the new viral thinking. I do wish they'd teach about this stuff more in schools than they do; I was old-school before computers and only got a single section in English on sales arguments/language that I remember, how to recognize "bait and switch" for example. Yes, recently in college I've taken a couple courses and had a few tangential teachings but nothing really "required" or that I see "most" people learning.

I still wish one had to have a course or test to get a website address or even an email account, to get "on" the web (or a cell phone use class like new drivers have to take a driving class!) but nothing like that will happen since it's all about money and buyer beware and not limiting people's access to "information". Even the different levels of the Internet/different Intranets that are happening now where there are gate keepers are just ignoring the problems rather than trying to help; they're like wealthy people hiring guards instead of spending some of their money making the whole community safer. Bill Gates, Carnegie, etc. are still best known for how they made their money and who they may have stepped on, not their philanthropy after they got bored or old/scared for their soul