I hate working in cyber clutter

Everyone clicks!

At least everyone who uses a computer - and maybe more. It's a necessity, I think.

But what has really begun to irritate me of late is the accidental clicking of advertisements and hidden links as I browse many of the million web pages. As a result I find myself backtracking all too often after being whipped around the Internet like some cyber-pancake batter.

I put blame on my extremely slow and cluttered computing machines, both at work and at home. 

Machines as I see them: programmed size, capability, and limits. Unlike humans they can't understand frustration at it's core. I, on the other hand, do.

Experiencing this, there is a realization that it's a strange duality living with technology. Because for as much as one can hate it, it is also that highly beloved -and more so- taken for granted (i.e. counting on your alarm to automatically sound every morning).

But back to the irritation of trying to click around the web when computers or websites slow down so much that you want to simply throw it out of the fifth floor window you look through everyday.

Ok.

Check out this site, kotaku.com.

As part of my newest job duties at a PR firm, I browse this site every morning. And with each new morning the frustration, irritation, and disbelief grow as I try to quickly search the site for relative articles under deadline.  I cant explain why because Im not a program writer or web developer, but I do know it sucks -- A lot.

Go ahead, click around the site a little bit. Scroll through it....   Maybe it is working just fine. But a site so cluttered (kinda like this post) makes it difficult to load pages and even browse at a normal rate.  Also notice the amount of links scattered across the screen.  Take that, combine it with other slowly operating opened browsing/Word windows currently on your screen, and I dare you to spend over an hour going back and forth without constantly clicking on links!

Then there are the links and other graphics that simply open a window by hovering your mouse over it... One word: ANNOYING.   Also: INEFFICIENT (for me).  I dont care about the Netflix offer damn you! I already use the service!

This may sound like nothing to you today, but one day you'll see.

In the words of Peter Griffin, "That is what really grinds my gears"