You know what I hate? Site makers. Those websites that let you build your own website with no coding knowledge at all. Click “Create Page” button, type in what you want in the page, and viola! How nice. Then pay $15 to get your own “.com”! Yay, what could be more fun?
Well I hate them for so many reasons. First off, they make a stupid impact on the general environment of the internet. It used to be all the websites you saw were hard work from coders who actually spent time working on them. Now a bunch of websites are from teens who put sites up just to say hi, or something like that. I could say the same thing about blogs, but in my personal opinion, blogs can be put to good use (although I hate when people try to use blogs as websites though). Second, they make coders look like idiots. Why code your own website when you can make a free one with little or no effort?
I’ll tell you why: Much more freedom (you can do literally anything that’s within U.S. laws [or whatever country/planet you're on]), you get to make your website look like whatever you want, you can add any type of thing you want on it (blog, member system, comments, games, videos, pics, etc.) and more! But alas, you have to LEARN coding! The horrors…. =(
Then also, it makes everybody think “Hey I’m so smart I just made a website! I must be awesome…I’ll go discuss my talent with other website owners”. Now seriously, you clicked a button, typed in a few paragraphs and hit “Save”. That’s pathetic to say you’re talented at creating websites. Then real coders talk about their websites and a guy with a Freewebs site or something starts talking about “how cool” his site is and all the features. Learn coding or ask someone else who knows coding to help you. People get jobs and salary making websites for others. So it’s basically saying you can get a job and earn money by clicking a few buttons. That’s showing that they figure a lazy generation is best, and people should get what they want on a silver platter. And that’s just WRONG.
Fourth, and lastly, those website things have SUCH SLOW SERVERS and FAR TOO MUCH ADS. I mean seriously, it’s sad. Ad…ad…ad…ad…oh THERE’S the site! Agh but it’s too slow my connection can’t load it.
WhiteShade
P.S. – The templates are also really ugly.
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