I love the Internet and am undeniably addicted to it. But here’s a note on a few things on it that really annoy me
- I hate those annoying websites which have porno advertisements on them. Especially the online file storage sites since I tend to use them a lot. Even worse is when at that perfect moment your mom decides to enter the room, tends to look at the computer screen and automatically comes to the conclusion that you’re obviously up to no good. I already start imagining ‘Maa Di Laadli bigad gayi’ playing in her head.
- I hate that it's ‘rude’ and ‘inappropriate’ to type in Caps on the internet, because sometimes I REALLY feel like doing that. No, I am not shouting (okay maybe a little bit), but it’s just the way I am – loud and overdramatic. Coming to think of it, why is Caps Lock even called so?
- I hate how the Google doodles are such a waste of time. For starters, it takes about 5 minutes to decode the word ‘Google’ in them (“OMG! I finally found it, there’s the other O”). They also are really cutesy and interactive (like the Pacman and the guitar game) and I end up spending so much time on the Google homepage itself that I forget what I actually wanted to search the web for.
- It is so easy to waste time on the Internet! You decide to take a 15 minute break from studies and wind-up on some website like Youtube. Next thing you know, an hour has passed already! It’s THAT simple.
- E-cards barely make up for the joy of sending and receiving an actual greeting card. An email saying ‘Hello, you’ve just received an e-card from ----’ doesn’t exactly bring the same smile on my face. Most of them are really loud with the most absurd animations and music playing and by the time you figure out where the mute button to it is (since you’ve never really needed it before) you feel the sudden urge to get your ears tested. And then there are the ones that are meant to be heart-warming and have the lovely, soft music but then they go on forever. You can’t skip to the end, and keep thinking it’s going to get over the next second and you end up waiting for a whole five minutes after which the message composed by the sender finally pops up on the computer screen. You want to respond to the mail by sending an equally annoying e-card back but then the fear of receiving new ones for every holiday knocks some sense into you.
- I hate it when I unknowingly end up reading movie spoilers on social networking websites. A friend’s status read – “Nooooooo….why did my Hrithik have to die too” the day after Agneepath released. I already had my tickets to the movie later that evening. But I already knew, and throughout the movie I was fighting the impulse to text her ‘thanks a lot, bitch’.
- Remember when you joined Facebook about 5-6 years back and it was delightful. You would draw graffitis for one another and post it to their ‘fun wall’ or ‘super wall’ and show off who your BFF’s were on your profile. It was so much fun to take all those quizzes that showed your analysis and compared it with that of your friends’ without having to send an invite to 15 other friends just to display the result. It was fun to ‘throw a sheep/goat’ at a friend though I’m still not sure what that action even meant. Mesmo TV, Bumper Stickers, Mindjolt Games, et al. All of that was what got me addicted to the site in the first place. Today Facebook is sans that fun element. Even worse is when, as usual, I click really goofy pictures of myself. But now, people go ‘And this one is going to go directly on Facebook!’…aargh!
