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.
An alternate title could have been “Web Providers Becoming More Narcissistic”.
Definitely! Turns me off and irritates me.
(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?)
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.
This behavior makes the user “selfish”?...good god, what arrogance.
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.
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”.
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!
Sigh....I don’t have time to read this stuff :’)
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.
I don’t see what’s selfish about not paying a lot of attention to ads and promotions, although it may distress the website owners. In fact, I have used AdMuncher for years, and never even see any ads.
Every time I visit Amazon this past month or so, I get a Kindle promotion stuck in my face. I quickly bypass it, but it’s beginning to make me dislike their site. It’s not exactl an ad, but I must say I’m thinking of asking the developers at AdMuncher if they can block the damned thing.
The title of the article screams “I’m written by a Liberal”
Efficency in web surfing equals selfishness.....
So the author says we’re all selfish if we want to control our own time, and use it the way we wish, and not be controlled by others?
The author should avoid walking in the rain (frequent in England), as he will be a drowning victim, since his nose is so far in the air
Half of us are men. Seek and destroy is a way of life. It works in hunting, shopping and now web behavior.
Complain about the customer. Are the “New” media execs all that different from the “old” media execs.
From a commercial:
We gotta get some new costomers. Cause the ones we got? They’re just awful. They’re always complaining.