NewsDay is giving us a new category of spam, as if we weren't already overtaxing the poor word: brain spam. Evidently, brain spam is that stuff that is just clogging your mental capabilities and keeping your memory from operating at peak capacity. Brain spam includes things you said you'd do but never had time to (delete); thank-you notes you should have written (delete); dumb things you've said (delete); items you've lost irretrievably (delete). An interesting concept - that I don't think I have the capacity to try! Who can consciously delete things from their brain (even spam)? Anyone?
One more thing to describe as 'spam'
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. hah! so maybe this is reverse psychology - your memory will improve if you try to 'delete' things from your brain - cause if you TRY, they're certain to stick around forever! diabolical. just like spam.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by sarah gilbert
4. Brain spam is necessary. Insight come from spam.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by BuyPiercing
1. The more you try to delete a thought from your brain, the tougher it will be to actually delete it. Probably best would be to just not think about it and, eventually, it will get deleted. But if you consciously try to not think of something aren't you, in a way, still thinking about it. Does this that if you consiously try to delete something from your brain, it will be stuck there forever?
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tino Buntic