Giggle, I mean, GIGO

So for the past few days, I've been getting random IMs from people I don't know. It's a little creepy. So I've been talking to the latest, and apparently, there's a "Salmonbot" going around. Basically, it's a bunch of bots with screennames that end in "salmon" that go around connecting random people. (From what I can gather, the bots get screennames from people who recently posted on livejournal or, in my case, on deviantart, and have their screennames on their profile.) So far, I've been hit with "InfectiousSalmon" and "WitheredSalmon".

The latest person, after both of us establishing that we are not, in fact, bots ourselves, went on to explain all of this to me. Apparently, some people even message the bots begging to be connected. Wow.

<3 Helen