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People are working on a method to transmit smells over the internet, and more shockingly, think it’s a good idea

Contrary to what you may be thinking, it's called Digital Olfacation, and it is absolutely a real thing.  There's even a conference on it this coming December in Japan.  The keynote speaker will be Doctor Nakamoto, who is the world's foremost expert on the topic. 

There already exists a prototype device to reproduce many smells, using a combination of 13 odor components sealed in tubes.  Combinations of these elements can apparently reproduce just about any olfactory sense possible to humans.  People are actually working on ways to make these things accessible over the internet so people can reproduce smells from around the world.  Because that's a good thing, for some reason.  

Here's the problem.  We're talking about the internet here.  Home of trolls, and Rickrolling, and Rule 34, and Youtube commenters.  I don't see any way that within hours, nay minutes, of this technology being made available to the public, that somebody doesn't spam their friends with farts.  

This is exactly what happened with the advent of the telephone.  Everyone knows that the first message ever sent via telephone was the iconic "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you," as spoken by A.G. Bell.  Fewer people know that moments later, the second audio message was sent along the same telephone line, and it was Watson passing gas into the microphone to Dr. Bell's amusement.  It's the natural progression of technology.