Getting On My Nerves Lately

I’m not one to whine, but a few things have been getting on my nerves when I’m surfing the Net.

I hate it when I want to watch a video, but I have to watch an ad first. So I sit through the ad, and then the video doesn’t load. Argh! My frustration is doubled when I try again, see the ad, and argh! No video. It sucks. Seriously. Why do the ads never fail to load? It’s sort of like companies that never seem to do anything right–except when it comes to collecting payment. They never screw that up.

Related to the above, I hate it when the ad before a video is almost as long as the video. I shouldn’t have to sit through a 20-second ad to view a 30-second video. Just sayin’.

I also hate it when sites lump a bunch of useless email categories with a critical one, so you can’t unsubscribe from the crap. For example, let’s say you want to stop receiving “What’s in the news this week!” emails. So you click on unsubscribe, but the description on the unsubscribe page says, “I don’t want to receive news and feature updates.” Well, I do want to receive feature updates. I don’t want the spammy news ones. But nope, it’s all or nothing. Sleazy.

Related to that is being presented with tons of email categories, and I have no idea which category to choose because the emails that annoy me don’t give me that information. So I choose the one I think fits best, and then I get the same type of email the next day because I chose wrong. Just spell it out, already!

I’m trying to cut down on the amount of email I get, so I’ve run into the email ones quite a bit this week. Grrr.

And then there are the captchas that I can’t solve. Is that a ‘l’ or a 1? Is it an ‘O’ or a 0? Is that “rn” or an ‘m’? I’ve talked about this before, so I won’t go on.

What do you hate when surfing the Net or dealing with email?

Have a great weekend!

Getting On My Nerves Lately is a post from: Sarah Ettritch