What annoys you most about the Internet?
-Watching ads before watching videos. Especially trailers, which are basically ads themselves.
-Having ads pop up over the video while watching.
-Videos that are blocked unless you live in America.
-Rapidshare
-Trending topics on Twitter
-Laughable shipping charges on some ebay auctions
-Having ads pop up over the video while watching.
-Videos that are blocked unless you live in America.
-Rapidshare
-Trending topics on Twitter
-Laughable shipping charges on some ebay auctions
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
People that fail at social life but trying to communicate with people -who they usually can't speak to their faces- on Facebook with phony remarks and unfunny jokes.
Being exposed to many weirdass fetishes by either clicking on a wrong link or being the victim of such a joke of a friend of yours.
Multiplayer mode of any CoD game.
Internet reviewers trying hard to be funny.
Except ads serve as a source of income and for gaming sites most game trailers don't. With big titles like Uncharted they actually pay for exclusivity.
But yes, I agree nonethless....they are annoying as hell.
I was at Cineplex.com (movie theater chain) trying to watch a trailer and before I could it played a trailer for "Faster" as an ad. It made me think about whether there was a chance I could get the "Faster" ad if I tried watching the "Faster" trailer.
- people who seriously think the newest CoD is teh best game evar.
- people who love San Andreas
- youtube blocking videos in Germany (I actually want to heat Never Gonna Give You Up)
- 30 second ads before videos that are less than 3 minutes long
*Total bullshit that is being discussed in my field of sciences (molecular biology) (I once heard somebody proclaim aids does not exist, and that the HIV virion was never visualised. Then I showed him some EM (electron microscopy) pictures of the virion and he replied with my next point)
*People who reply to a question in a discussion by copy pasting a huge slab of non relevant text by a dubious author
*Disrespect towards others
*Memes that are to funny
*Memes that are not funny at all
By the way, I'm joking.
Indeed. Opera is the future!!!1!
Are you still bitter about that? You should know by now that Chris is a unisex name.
When you try to have an opinion against the norm and either get trolled, flamed, bashed, called a troll, or banned. Like that time I posted on one forum about how much I hate Christmas. I thought a topic about Christmas would also be for people who don't like it but NOOOOO.
I know how you feel. Whatever will I do with all those iPads I wanted to gift to people?
No-no, it would play, as an ad, the trailer of the movie which trailer you tried to view
- Not being to access half my usual sites because they are blocked in the U.K.
- pop-ups that will not let you access the site you want to go to until you take their possibly-virus-infected quiz
- Flashplayer and it's seeming hatred for me. Seriously it quits every five to ten minutes on me whether I'm using Firefox or Safari.
I cannot recommend an ad-blocker enough. I was without one until recently and it's made browsing the web so better, especially on those pre-rolls.
eBay have imposed limits on what you can charge on postage per category, haven't they?
Don't I know this. I once had to spend $80 shipping a French Horn from Germany, all the while crossing my fingers that it would even be playable by the time it arrived. It was, thank goodness.
I am usually able to ignore them, but every once in a while, I get curious. Big mistake. There are levels of stupidity that man just wasn't meant to see. The only upside is that, whenever I start to question my own intelligence, I can go to YouTube and instantly feel like a goddamn genius just because I can form a coherent thought. To think that there are actual people behind those keyboards...
Then there's Yahoo Answers, but I'm not even going to get started on that particular brain cell graveyard.
I have found a few comments that turned out to be pure gold on youtube, though. I think the most memorable one was on a Two Steps From Hell song where this one guy described the piece as the soundtrack for a movie in which Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee fight to the death on a starship crashing into a planet where there is an epic battle between Zerg and Jedi.
Now I'm sad because I can't seem to find that comment...
So I don't hate the troll. I hate the hypocrites.
And that Dominoes has an online ordering system. I swear people abuse that system to no end just to annoy us.
Youtube:
These assholes who get featured and PAID to put their videos on the front page of youtube with names like "GIRL GETS NAKED" by the same old people who get millions of subscribers, and all the video is, is some guy talking about how hes totally awesome and how he ate a hot dog, and then an image of a girls face for the video thumbnail subliminally placed half way through.
Facebook:
Avoid like the plague, EVERYTHING is wrong with facebook
Everyone being branded a "hacker":
It was on the radio that some guy who helped do a DDoS attack on paypal, and everyone was calling him a "cyber terrorist" and an "elite hacker"
How jokes that were funny on the internet for a short while 10 years ago get passed down into stupid mainstream catchphrases, like everyone saying "LOLZ" or "LOL WUT" in real life all of a sudden, most of them being 15 year old girls.
I COULD GO ON
It's just cheap entertainment and it's been around for thousands of years. If you want to complain, don't complain at the internet, complain at society. If you even want to complain at that point, because it's pretty futile. Seeth in anger in private. I'll join you in spirit.
Why? Often times, facebook is the only way I could get into contact with some friends. Plus, it's actually pretty good for organizing events. It's part of helping the world connect to each other, and closing what would have been a huge gap in communications by providing a social forum. Sure there's a bunch of absolutely dumb things on it like the whole LIKE THIS IF YOU EVER RAN THROUGH A FOREST PRETENDING YOU'RE FRODO or somethin like that, but that's what you get when you get 500 million active users into a network together. It's like walking through a large city and seeing a group of annoying people then cursing the city for being the worst thing in the world.
Unless I'm mistaken about your thoughts, of course. If so, please explain further because that's a very vague statement you've made there.
That's not so much an Internet problem (as it's not really happening on the internet so much as it is, say, on the radio as you say) so much as a general act of ignorance. It's annoying yeah, but that's just the stereotype given. It's like constantly portraying a chinese person as a kung fu master.
*shrug* Again, this has been happening for thousands of years as well. Not really an internet thing. I've noticed a lot of people hold anger just because it's gone mainstream. To that I say, I'm sorry that people have infiltrated your inside jokes and secret tree house hand shakes.
that sounded kinda dickish. but i assure you, i dont really mean it like that.
Kinda unrelated, but whatever. Recently, the City of Portland have been running a Steampunk Christmas celebration. Being around when it was still very much a niche thing, it was very strange to me to see it go completely mainstream. But that's what I feel: Weirded out. Not really all that angry. Sure it sorta ruins the aspect of being something unique and special, but I don't really see it as a horrible thing.
I think I'm just abnormal. And not in the LOLRANDOM way.
Personally I get more annoyed at people who take things way too seriously when it's just something silly. And what's worse is then when you express that they should simmer down, they go all like "lol calm down it's just the Internet".
I do have to say that some people should realize that the internet isn't always something to be taken seriously. It's the reason there's so much stupid shit on here like cat videos and stuff. Yeah, the internet can be serious, but let's face it, I'd guess at the very lowest, 95% of the regulars here use the majority of their time on the internet for not serious things.
i kinda feel bad bout writing this post because if i werent so goshdarn tired, i wouldnt have done it. but i already wrote this much, so im posting it anyways. if i said anything dickish or anything that could be interpreted as aggressive, don't take it to heart. please?
Well it depends, the entire Beatles back catalogue was remastered, if they only own the original runs and want the remasters digitally then why not. I personally wouldn't be one of those "I loved this so much I ought it 4 times people" but it's a nice tought that people can still get so enthusisatic about stuff
I agree, I would use that to my advantage though...you know like...beaming across the ocean so I could get stuff cheaper and or..go see stage shows I couldn't here..
...yes, I enjoy the theater.
Sorry, I wrote that message when I woke up and must have had a bit of a brain fart, I'm usually pretty good at being a grammer nazi myself, just a one off mistake
Every thing else you wrote, I also agree with now you put it in your own perspective.
That doesn't make any sense to me. How can you qualify a website as being serious or not?
I understood it just fine.