Answer:
It is the electronic version of junk mail or a salty meat in a can.
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you're all through with it?
I am round as a bowl, deep as a tub, but all the world's water couldn't fill me up.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.