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Web users 'getting more selfish'
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| 24 May 2008
Posted on 05/26/2008 2:39:18 PM PDT by Aristotelian
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They are describing me to a T when I go shopping. No dilly-dallying for me. I get in and I get out. If they don't have what I want, I'm outta of there.
Matter of fact, this is the way many, if not most, men shop. What says to me that the Web is inculcating women with male habits. Hmmm. That could have interesting possibilities.
To: Aristotelian
An alternate title could have been “Web Providers Becoming More Narcissistic”.
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:43:09 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
To: Aristotelian
Web users were also getting very frustrated with all the extras, such as widgets and applications, being added to sites to make them more friendly. Definitely! Turns me off and irritates me.
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:43:35 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Aristotelian
Most ignore efforts to make them linger and are suspicious of promotions designed to hold their attention.
A.k.a., obnoxious pop-ups and glitzy flash videos.
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:45:46 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Aristotelian
One of the reasons that I didn't learn Java Script (or other things like that) 10+ years ago was that I saw them as wastes of time that made my pages load slower for no added benefit. I couldn't stand slow-loading pages with screen calls.
(Back then, more than a few web owners with access to T-1 lines assumed that everyone else must've had access to one also, or why bother?)
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:46:18 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
("We have top men working on it." "Who?" "Top. Men.")
To: Aristotelian
I don’t see how using a web site to obtain the information you’re looking for, then going on to the next task, equates to ‘’selfish’’. I don’t care to waste time on unproductive tasks on line — and for that matter, I don’t care for sales pitches, particularly ‘’upselling’’. If I wanted something different than what I’m searching for or purchasing, I would have asked for it.
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:48:06 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. --Einstein)
To: Aristotelian
I don't know where "selfishness" comes in here. Seems to me web designers should just concentrate on giving their customers what they want.
The last line makes a good point, though: "In the long run anyone who wants to beat Google just has to make a better search," said Dr Nielsen.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks there is a lot of room for improvement in search engines. Could be an awful lot of money in figuring that one out.
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:48:39 PM PDT
by
The Pack Knight
(Duty, Honor, Country.)
To: Aristotelian
Web users were also getting very frustrated with all the extras, such as widgets and applications, being added to sites to make them more friendly.
The ole K.I.S.S. principle still works.
Use it, and you will probably get more traffic. People usually go to websites for content, not glitter, not fancy, not 'because it is the newest in widgets'.
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:48:39 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Aristotelian
This behavior makes the user “selfish”?...good god, what arrogance.
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:49:20 PM PDT
by
spyone
To: Aristotelian
This is why it is so difficult to bring in revenue with online advertising. Newspapers, for example, are hoping that they can make their online presences a valid revenue stream. But people don’t dally around and click on whatever ads might be on these sites. They just get what they want/need and go somewhere else.
And in the case of users like me, it’s even worse since I have Adblock Plus and don’t even see the ads in the first place.
To: Rebelbase
Better title:
Web Users Becoming More Discriminating
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posted on
05/26/2008 2:51:51 PM PDT
by
i_dont_chat
(The elephant has fallen and it can't get up.)
To: TomGuy
Exactly.
That’s why FR is “sticky”.
To: i_dont_chat
Or maybe even, “Free time to dilly-dally becoming more scarce”
(said while I sit and dilly-dally around on this site...oh well...but you get my point, and I really should be doing chores :-)
To: Aristotelian; ShadowAce
tech ping
One of my biggest peeves is bandwidth hogging Flash and Trash and transitions. If a site is taking a while to load because of it, then the heck with them. I want info, not a bunch of “lookit what I (site designer) can do”.
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posted on
05/26/2008 3:01:22 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the girly-man population. Have the McCainiacs spayed or neutered.)
To: TomGuy
You mean to tell me that you don’t click on the University Of Phoenix ad to check it out? How about the High School chums ad?
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posted on
05/26/2008 3:02:22 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Why is that annoying asterisk in the search bar ?- wearing out my back space key.)
To: Aristotelian
Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. Instead, many are "hot potato" driven and just want to get a specific task completed.
Oh no, we're both selfish, ruthless hot potatoes. But nobody told me that an internet website had the right to keep me there indefinitely putting up with all their new drop-down ads, flashing ads, full screen ads......while I'm just trying to find an answer.
I confess, I block and/or cancel every one of their stupid little ads because I won't live forever and it would take that long to get through all their internet garbage!
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posted on
05/26/2008 3:02:26 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: Aristotelian
Sigh....I don’t have time to read this stuff :’)
To: Aristotelian
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Web users ‘getting more selfish’
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It is clear that the BBC has gotten more selfish of its ideology, and finds it easier and easier to insult what used to be more widespread common sense. Even the very structure of the lede, with the tick marks, as if their use somehow enables the writer to distance himself from the source is evidence of the trend.
These semi-quotes get almost ridiculous sometimes, like when the story originates in a quote or statement by Bush or the US military in Iraq. Like: Terrorist ‘blew himself up’, like somehow it might be possible he was sent on his way to the Virgin Cluster in a red mist by some some other means when he pushed the button.
To: Aristotelian
There is beauty in simplicity.
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posted on
05/26/2008 3:06:16 PM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
To: Graybeard58
How about the High School chums ad?Slooowly he turned,..... step by step,
"High School chums ads!!!" And he choked him and he.....
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posted on
05/26/2008 3:07:18 PM PDT
by
xJones
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