Tuesday, May 27th 2008
Survey Says: Internet Users Selfish, Impatient
Every once in a while, a market research group or two will bother to determine just how the general populace of the internet will respond to certain types of media. This most recent market research shows that most people using the internet are more likely to possess the qualities of an ADHD riddled 5 year old, and only spend a few minutes on a web page before switching tasks. This does not help advertisers, who would rather users take a slow, mellow approach to the internet, and notice all the subtle nuances embedded in the website designed around making the user buy some trinket or another. Instead, they have to deal with a crowd that is suspicious of anything that tries to get the user to spend more than the absolute minimum required time looking at a web page. The conclusion to this study said that most web page authors really ought to keep fancy widgets to themselves, and merely facilitate what the user is really trying to do, whatever that may be.
Source:
Neowin.net
56 Comments on Survey Says: Internet Users Selfish, Impatient
I guess a lot of it comes down to how much your ISP values their customer privacy. A good ISP should not hand over your details unless they have a court order or good evidence, but I know it doesn't really work that way.
Here, we only have two high-speed ISPs, and Verizon has been very good to their customers. Cox Communications, on the other hand . . . I've heard of them contacting customers trying to out-smart their bandwidth caps by using proxys, and they also cap their customers connection speeds after 6PM.
With Verizon - they could give a shit less what you're up to, unless they're contacted by another company about piracy, and even then, Verizon tends to demand concrete evidence before they even start pressuring their customer.
But, just to keep in mind though, any time you're up to shady practices on the internet - you're at risk of being busted.
as to hearing alot of people promoting it, its the uninformed masses that prmoto such things, look at kazza, it was such a shit newtork, BUT it was extreamly popular because the uninformed masses used it and told everybody they knew about it.
just because alot of people pimp something dosnt mean its not bad or useless, using pg2 is like using a rubber thats got holes in it, nice faulse sence of security nothing more.
Go F Yourself!
Big balls you got to make such claims on a human race that has better things to do then have our precious time wasted by SPAM!
Lucky im not ruling this world, because one of my first laws would be execution of all spammers, decided by the jury of 1, me.
I dont know about where you people come from, but here in Australia, our ISP's dont give a shit. They tend to promote spamming and hacking and not follow up on offenders. Sure they bust someone once in a blue moon, but the person they bust should have been executed years ago or they bust the most innocent of us all ( caught for having a minor mp3 collection ).
Security on the internet is non existant, thats why the concept was released to the public. Our ISP's dont care about hardcore evidence, they want it, and dont follow up. Thte only way to get shit done here in Australia is to persue the matter via the Ombudsmon which highlights how shitty things are.