October 11, 2006
More Internet to hate
Ooookay. I’ve bit my tongue on this one for weeks.
Why do people take the brilliant idea of web tags and ruin them with their laziness and poor grasp of their potential? WHY?
This has wasted so much of my fucking time, wading through piles of posts and images where people cut+paste generic tags into entire folders of data or just input tags that make no fucking sense. Try searching MIB in Flickr, and some asshat has decided that every time he snaps a picture of his pugs, we who search for Men in Black must endure looking at him. Yes, there was a character in the movie that was a pug, but the relation to generic pug photos ends there. Add that to the groups of webtards who tag a picture for every item it contains, regardless of true description or usefulness, those who divide up appropriate multiple-word tags into several useless single-word tags, and those who tag their full fucking names (as two single-word tags, of course)… the Internet went from suddenly being content-rich again to absolutely unusable in under 6 months.
I won’t even get started on mommy blogs and sites that read as follows: “then I had lunch, then I went to the bathroom, then I called my aunt, then I went to the store and bought a (trendy product of the day), then I blogged about it all”. For then I would truly know madness. And as it stands I’m nestled in the crevice between functioning sociopath and full on crackers.
Reason 42 why I feel old: I’ve watched the Internet through so many of these starts/stops, seeing new ideas blossom and then prompty die in the hands of web users. Even being pissy at the Internet feels like an ooooold habit. Has it really been 11 years?
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