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Viralworthy?

Getting a virus was bad news.  In some cases it still is.  Think AIDS, Ebola, Hanta etc...not good.

Of course there are those kinds that infect all known computing devices - from large mainframes to handheld devices - also causing serious side effects.  Getting rid of said viruses is big business.

Then there is like this thing with like the new generation...where things you think or better yet would not even think of go viral.  Encouraging all to partake in this virology rather than eradicating it is also big business.

Anything is fair game... a bagger in a store to cat clawing the heck out of a carpet to someone taking a dump on a highway or repeatedly vomitting...

Access to technology in the hands of new generation - created by some of the best minds in Silicon Alley is causing massive amounts of data pollution that transcends all known logic.

At the end of the day - all this twitting, facing, gramming and tumblering is so bizzare that it causes companies to buy more hardware to support the insanity thereby boosting capex spending that shows up as stellar sales for those that sell the hardware which makes wall street happy.

So that boosts the pension account of an old lady in Iowa if she owns IBM stock.  Go figure.
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