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| Thread ID: 104194 | 2009-10-19 19:39:00 | The internet is full of idiots writing rubbish for other idiots to read. | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 822085 | 2009-10-19 19:39:00 | www.27bslash6.com When I was young and I wanted to know something, I was beaten for being too inquisitive. That's the problem with the young people today, they have a google answer for everything. If they had to walk to their local library every time they had something stupid to ask they would ask a lot less stupid questions. Google Images Google Images is useless. I used it once to search for a photo of farm equipment and it showed me twenty thousand pictures of horse ****s. Blogging I read a blog once by someone who had bought a scarf and he went on for about three hundred paragraphs about his scarf and where he bought it and how it made him feel. The last time I bought a scarf I wore it. End of story. I didn't write a novel about it. Chatrooms If I wanted to chat with strangers, I would pick up the phone and press random numbers. I tried a chatroom once and was talking to guy who claimed he was an obese fifty three year old man living in a caravan park but there is no way of knowing if these people are telling the truth. Why would I want anybody I don't know knowing what I am doing? I don't yell out to everyone in the supermarket "I am buying oranges" so why would I want to do it on my internet? When I was young, I lived in a small village where everybody knew each other and knew what everyone was up to. There was a fat italian kid who lived next door to me named Tony. One day I shot him in the leg with a home made bow & arrow from my treehouse that overlooked his yard and his parents called the police. Within hours the entire village was calling me William Tell. Having escaped the small town mentality for the last fifty two years, I am hardly going to advertise my movements now. The Bath Mat I realise this is not internet related but I cannot understand why it is so hard for people to hang the bath mat over the bath when they are finished using it. I don't leave the mat all soggy for other people to walk on after I have been in there. I have a photo album on my bookshelf full of faces of people I know which I haven't opened since 1982 so why would I want their faces on my internet? None of them are even very good looking. I tried facebook to see what all the fuss was about and was only on there five minutes before some idiot poked me. It is easy to be brave when you are on the internet. Reddit / Digg These sites are the online equivalent of walking down the street, finding a rock shaped like a frog and holding it up in the air while yelling for all my neighbours to come out and tell me what they think of my frog shaped rock. My neighbours can all go to hell. Especially Mrs Carter in number three who leaves her bins out all week. If I did find a rock shaped like a frog, I would throw it at her. eBay If I wanted a house full of cheap, dirty, second hand rubbish, I would go to a garage sale in Klemzig. People are always sending me all kinds of rubbish. Why would I want dozens of pictures of lots of love cats? I hate cats. I went away for a week recently and when I got back and checked my email, I had eight hundred and forty three messages. Eight hundred and forty of these were adverts for viagra and the other three were pictures of lots of love cats. I bought a 'no junk mail' sticker and stuck it on my modem but nobody has taken any notice. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 822086 | 2009-10-19 19:43:00 | :D:D:D Oh so true!! Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 822087 | 2009-10-19 19:43:00 | :thumbs: | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 822088 | 2009-10-19 20:27:00 | And your point is? :( :( Am I allowed to say: "Get a life" :) |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 822089 | 2009-10-19 20:42:00 | :thumbs: | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 822090 | 2009-10-19 21:00:00 | Yes, and that's not counting the millions of bloggers and article writers out there hosting websites trying to make money from Google Adsense. | Digby (677) | ||
| 822091 | 2009-10-19 21:10:00 | If only that No Junk Mail sticker worked.... :thumbs: |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 822092 | 2009-10-19 21:16:00 | Oh Dear I think I have just been verbally abused!!!!! PJ :crying | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 822093 | 2009-10-21 09:35:00 | I agree; Fluff articles/spam and warez blogs/sites are plentiful. Almost everyday I get link and follower requests to my sites from such sites (usually new and from non English countries), which I tell them to go elsewhere... - Google Images should be improved with better segmented search options, as evident (where you can click on options) in standard search (which lately they have been optimizing quite a bit, along with Google Map search). But not so much for their image search. - For Blogging; There is a bit of a trend for some bloggers to write (or not) a lot of fluff, or fall short of relevant content (Which I don't do). Why? it's known to annoy targeted search visitors looking for a solution (not so much subscribed "readers")...and get them to click on related Google ads present, to quickly exit that blog by clicking out. It's a monetization trick...and I know it has worked handsomely for some bloggers in popular (as defined by keyword searches) topics. Then the blogger may write a follow up topic... - Social sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). These are used to get attention/links/visitors to small business/blogs/sites (mainly USA based...of which employee's from companies observe feedback/interact from others), so perhaps not geared for individual's that don't have anything of perceived value, entity, or site to promote. - ebay - Buy to resell, rather than use, is how it worked for me. -Submission sites - Digg/Reddit - Quick to get buried anyway, unless if you have influence (or have the time to interact with someone who does). - email - Get plenty of rubbish, like you, know one seems to notice... |
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| 822094 | 2009-10-21 09:53:00 | you can change your preferences in google images so it won't show horse ****ing. This boils down to the user not knowing what their are doing. | plod (107) | ||
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