Is There Spam In The Wild? A Short Draft Pebble #1: "I heard when you get industrialised, like when somebody smelts you into a mobile phone, you can do this thing called "spam" where you, like, i dunno, spam people or something? or get spam?" Pebble #2: "Yeah?" Pebble #1: "What do you think it is, "spam"? Do we spam as wild pebbles?" Pebble #2: "I don't know. I've never heard of it." Pebble #1: "Hmm." Chipmunk: "Squeak!" Pebble #1: "Is the squeak of a chipmunk spam?" Pebble #2: "I don't know what spam is. Chipmunks obviously squeak to communicate important information like danger or excitement, just like rocks do." Pebble #1: "Oh. Maybe spam is something like that. Do you think mobile phones are expressing danger or excitement?" Pebble #2: "I don't know what a mobile phone is." Pebble #1: "Well neither do I to be honest. But I hear you can get smelted into them, and then you might participate in "spam"." Pebble #2: "You won't stop saying these words I don't know. Why are you talking about this?" Pebble #1: "Oh! I've figured it out!" Pebble #2: "Yeah?" Pebble #1: "I think spam is like a disease that mobile phones get, where they spread information that is pointless, distracting, interruptive, and harmful. I think it spreads behaviors where people do things that don't make any sense, and then the people who receive the behaviors call it spam." Pebble #2: "So we do spam. You just spammed me, by telling me about spam. But it's not pointless. Diseases are dangerous!" Pebble #1: "It's been like 10 million years since we had a new rock disease!" Pebble #2: "I'll spam some more pebbles so we can talk about it." Pebble #1: "No! Don't!" Pebble #2: "No? But diseases are important!" Pebble #1: "Talking about a disease is _different_ from spreading it. Really different!" Pebble #2: "I'm a pebble, dude."