Posts Tagged ‘rant’

Email Forwards/Chain Letters

{ August 12, 2009 @ 11:11 AM } · { Rants }
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COME ON! There’s hardly anything I hate more than email forwards and chain letters. I mean, it’s like “Your friends think you are cool because they sent you this email, now send it back to show how much you think they’re cool!” I mean SERIOUSLY?! So how much I like my friends is based on a stupid EMAIL?!

Or those Christian forwards…THOSE ARE THE WORST. “If you believe in Jesus send this email to all your friends.” So now my beliefs are based on a stupid email too?! Next they’re gonna have something like “If you think your life has some sort of value, then forward this email. If not, go commit suicide.”

I mean seriously why do people I know keep these up? It’s stupid and it annoys me more than anything. Are you going to try to see my inner thoughts by if I send something or not? WHAT are you people trying to extract from MY MIND?!? In my opinion anybody who sends chain letters can spend 10 minutes in the corner for each chain letter they send. And as a friend of mine would say: “Go stand in the corner with the friends you don’t have. NO FRIENDS.” If I want to tell someone that I think they’re cool, why don’t I JUST SAY IT TO THEIR FACE?! No I gotta use a chain letter…Wait for one and then I can tell them they’re all cool.

Seriously? What’s the point of it all? Where can we go with email forwards? NOWHERE. So I say we stay away from email forwards for at least a week to make everybody happier cuz I know a bunch of other people that hate forwards too.

So that’s my dollar fifty on email forwarding.
WhiteShade

People who insert themselves into arguments

{ August 11, 2009 @ 1:33 PM } · { Rants }
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You know what I hate? When people insert themselves into an argument when they have hardly an idea what they’re talking about. It’s like they think they know all about the subject but they really don’t. Like (sorry to the person who I’m using in this example, but it’s true you really didn’t know much about the subject you were trying to bring up), I was ranting about site makers and how people are really lazy with not coding their own websites or getting someone else to code them. Then they tried bring up the fact that I do the same thing with forums.

But to tell the truth, forums were a much more complicated matter, and one of the hardest online creations ever to code. Few are harder to code that a forum, and those may be something like Youtube or Google, or any kind of search engine/video site. MySpace and Facebook wouldn’t be hard, just repetitive and time-consuming. Anyways, I can easily see why someone would use a premade forum, and I will also post my entire comment to the user:

I see where you’re going with that point but forums are a completely different matter, thus ruining your argument.

Forums are actually more complex than most people think. I was ranting on about websites and site makers because forums are one of the hardest and most difficult of online web creations to code, and I can easily see why someone might use a pre-made forum rather than a custom-coded forum. Even the most experienced coders would have to work on their own forum around an hour everyday for 3/4 month to a month, depending on how fast they can figure out problems to glitches, whereas a website can be created in about 3 hours time depending on the experience of the coder and all the features of a website (for a full-scale website that is WAY off).

Now, I can see why someone might spend 3 hours on a website…Because they want to make a website, and it’s not too much time wasted if it doesn’t work out. But seriously, you custom-code a forum, which could take anywhere from 1/2 a month to 5 months depending on how much you want to work on it and how many features there are. Now say that fails…You just spent a bunch of your time that you could spend doing a bunch of other stuff that you actually need to do (education, a job, etc.) and it failed. You just wasted almost HALF A YEAR. So, why take the risk?

Also, when you compare them, most of those forum-makers have been created after years of work. Now which one would your users be happier with? A mediocre forum by you, or a feature-rich forum with a bunch of pre-made features and special stuff just for you and your users?

I’ll let you decide.

Of course I’ve done it a few times, (yes I admit it) and I think everyone has, but I really HATE IT when it does happen, and I especially hate it when people do that OVER and OVER. It’s like they don’t even realize what they’re doing, when in truth, they’re just PDS’in (Public Display of Stupidity).

And if you ever see someone try to insert themselves into one of your discussions, tell them “WhiteShade just POWNED you!”

WhiteShade

Site Makers

{ August 3, 2009 @ 12:52 AM } · { Rants }
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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.

iCarly

{ August 1, 2009 @ 11:44 PM } · { Rants }
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Hey peoplez,
So the point of my blog today is iCarly and how they look on the technical stuff for their “web show”. I hate how they always seem to make everything look so easy.

In fact, the other day, one of my friends started attempting their own version of iCarly. It would not be a live stream but they would add blogs and a new video every Saturday. Now I noticed how unprofessional it was. It was made using Blogspot and it had a really bad template (if any of you who I’m talking about are reading this, no offense, but it’s the truth). The thing is, a website and web show like iCarly, and the capabilities that they had within that show would take weeks and weeks of work. Just the website itself wouldn’t probably take too long, but building their own live stream program, adding a wireless remote that controls lights, a monitor, and more? Seems pretty far-fetched for one (very young) tech producer who took, as far a I know, barely any time or effort to make it. I personally think people should give tech producers and people who work with that more credit. You see a show about a web show on TV, and then you want to make your own…Sounds pretty easy right? The characters of that show make it look pretty easy; all they have to do is rehearse the show and they can do everything else live, but I think anyone who actually tries is going to run into a bump and think “Wait…this is actually pretty hard and you have to have a bunch of tech knowledge to get an actually good online show…”. And my little advice to anyone trying to make their own iCarly…Get a tech producer, cuz otherwise, I might review it on my blog…and say it sucks!

So that’s my opinion on the concept of making a web show.
WhiteShade

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