I gotta say that I am a teeny bit upset at the waste of bandwidth that is taking over the internet these days. Here are some of my least favorite bandwidth wasting types of activities:

You go to NBC, you click to see a small clip from Last Comic Standing, maybe 4 minutes in total length. Before you can see each mini clip, you HAVE to watch a 30 second add. Seriously?!

You go to a news site, and two thirds of the page is covered in ads. OK, I can deal with it (somewhat) if they are text ads, but those annoying animated GIFs (or worse flash animations) are distracting, annoying and taking up my bandwidth!

You go to that same news site, and they have a flash movie running of the recent (insert film name here) flick, in muted mode. Why do I need to see this? If I want to see a trailer of the movie, I’ll head over to quicktime.com and see it! I don’t want to have it wasting my screen real estate and my bandwidth!

These ads are getting annoying!

Tags: bandwidth, rant, ads, waste

Jeez! Every day I keep getting invitation for facebook apps that are…for all intents and purposes useless for me. I’ve been blocking certain apps that I will never use, and I’ve been declining other apps that I may want to use in the future.

People’s facebook profiles are starting to remind me of MySpace. Facebook is still cleaner than MySpace (thank goodness that Facebook does not allow themes), but my friend’s pages are getting cluttered. I just want to go on and post on someone’s wall sometimes, but it’s hard to find! I don’t want to post on the FunWall or the SuperWall… just the Wall…

Facebook really needs to reign in these apps and stop people from sharing. This excessive sharing is annoying!

Tags: facebook, social, networks, annoying, applications