Nouveau annoyances

Mar 14, 2009 10:44

  1. Facebook apps. All of them. They should all be banned.
     
  2. Crossposting all your tweets to your blog. I subscribed to your blog because I want to read your occasional lengthy thoughts. If I want to read your tweets, there’s this really great site called Twitter where I can go to read them!
     
  3. Retweets. Same issue: I’m following you because I want to know about you. If I really wanted to hear all about the #worthless #esoteric #crap you follow, don’t you think I would be following it myself? Ever hear of the concept of signal-to-noise ratio?
     
  4. Twitter as diversion. Trust me, no one but you wants to read the play-by-play of that intramural soccer game or five-minute updates on your experience at the airport luggage carousel. Tweeting just because you’re bored is a great way to prove to the rest of the world how boring you really are.
     
  5. Lack of due diligence. Never ask a community to answer a question you could answer yourself with 15 seconds’ research. Google and Wikipedia can answer almost any question your little mind can formulate in less time than it takes you to post it to a 5,000-member forum.

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