Boggling how dumb people are.
Web 2.0 is the newest thing. The latest craze! It’s amazing. It’s fun. It’s incredibly stupid. Let’s take Digg and Yahoo! Answers for examples. Very Web 2.0. Very interactive with visitors. And mind numblingly stupid. Both of them.
Digg is a wonderful little site that ranks stories based on their popularity with their users. Users post stories, users vote on the stories. Then users complain about the stories that they just posted up! Digg drives a ton of of traffic to your site, especially if you are lucky enough to get to the front page of the site. So, users click over to the article on your site - usually en masse, called the Digg effect - then they leave and complain about the site they just chose to visit. For a web owner, the traffic is not only useless (it never converts into sales or ad revenue) and encourages drive by traffic. Here and gone. Very rarely will a new visitor come and try and look deeply at the site and see if there is anything else of value. Wham, bam, thank ya ma’am! Here’s a nice little entry that sums up several reasons why Digg is useless. (Fittingly, I found this by searching “Digg sucks” on Google).
Now, let’s talk about “Yahoo! Answers”. Or, as I like to say “Yahoo! Lazy”. People ask the most inane questions. Let’s preview some mind numbing questions asked today:
Refrigerator temperatures? Yes - what about them? Care to ask an actual question?
My sister lives in the philippines, how long does her I-130 form to get approved? Isn’t this really a question for the government. I’m sure some schlub on the Internet knows the answer to this question. Somehow I think the winning answer will be “Visit this government website and find out!”
Can i get a lone to buy a $700,000 house? If you can’t spell loan, I’d say chances are pretty slim.
How many calories are in a chicken ceasar salad from ol’ charley’s resturant? Uh. Ask Ol’ Charley’s Restaurant?
Want to download im for yahoo how do i do this thx? Ugh. Where do you start? It’s not like Yahoo has a messenger link on every page of the site!
How many ppl got AIDS in Thailand? Check with the Thailand website. Or search “aids thailand” on Google. It’s really not that difficult.
Then you tack on the celebrities who “ask” questions to the world thru Yahoo Answers! “How do you end poverty” “How do you stop breast cancer?” As if some random yo-yo on Yahoo is going to answer questions that have boggled mankind since time immemorial. My answer to the second one was “Ban women” Women account for like 90% of all breast cancer cases, so banning them, seems like a good start. Right? Yahoo didn’t think so and I lost 10 Yahoo Answer points. Boo.
Need I go on? Really? Feel free to browse Yahoo Answers and get your own entertainment. It’s fun to answer stupid questions with stupid answers and have Yahoo email you saying “this is not a helpful answer”.
More Stupid Stuff …. Iguanas and Viagra!
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