breeding disinterest
Facebook and MySpace are breeding disinterest, at least for me. Various other sites do it, and what they all do is pretty obvious and easily ignored...I just get sick of being bombarded, so I stop looking in those places.
I'm mostly talking about the "You have 1 Secret Admirer" type of bullshit that appears on nine out of ten pages on Facebook and MySpace. The latest one blends in perfectly with the rest of my stuff, no indication that it's just bullshit linkbait, and it reads "You've received new posts from your friends. Click here to view your unread posts." I mean, I understand bombardment has been a fact of the advertising world for time immemorial, but for the most part, it didn't pretend to be something that it wasn't. These days, companies and advertising agencies are trying everything they can think of to dupe you into clicking their links and adding their applications. It's not a new problem, but jumpin' jesus on a pogo stick I'm getting tired of having to avoid the disguised landmines.
I don't have much more to say, I just wanted to bitch. I go to a site to read things about my friends and exchange little notes with them. I can deal with advertisements, but I really don't want to have to always be on my guard to make sure the data I'm seeing is valid.
I'm mostly talking about the "You have 1 Secret Admirer" type of bullshit that appears on nine out of ten pages on Facebook and MySpace. The latest one blends in perfectly with the rest of my stuff, no indication that it's just bullshit linkbait, and it reads "You've received new posts from your friends. Click here to view your unread posts." I mean, I understand bombardment has been a fact of the advertising world for time immemorial, but for the most part, it didn't pretend to be something that it wasn't. These days, companies and advertising agencies are trying everything they can think of to dupe you into clicking their links and adding their applications. It's not a new problem, but jumpin' jesus on a pogo stick I'm getting tired of having to avoid the disguised landmines.
I don't have much more to say, I just wanted to bitch. I go to a site to read things about my friends and exchange little notes with them. I can deal with advertisements, but I really don't want to have to always be on my guard to make sure the data I'm seeing is valid.