Mazy Kazerooni

Being "Salmoned"

There’s an interesting phenomena I’ve been witnessing recently. It’s been dubbed Salmoning. Someone out there in the great big internet has created a very interesting AIM bot. It has various names, all ending in Salmon. What it does is, finds someone who just updated their livejournal who happens to have their AIM name listed on their profile. It grabs their username, and grabs another username from their database who is online at the time. It messages the first user and starts a conversation. When they reply, the Salmon bot relays the message to the other person, acting as a sort of middleman.

It’s nice to have a way for people to randomly bump into each other. Who knows, people could be making new friends.