what are the TOP 5 things you hate about the Internet ??

[lordsmurf]

1. Time wasters: chatting with random strangers (AIM, ICQ, etc) and setting your AIM "away message" top the list ... so do online gaming (PS2, XBOX Live, EverQuest etc).... GET A LIFE!!! ... at least with VideoHelp, people usually learn some video, so not total waste ... hell, even off-topic has some good info

2. Self-installing crap: ActiveX, spyware, virus, trojans, hijackers, etc .... as well as sending stuff to your printer! Grrr...

3. Bogus search results: "search" pages, ebay auctions, domains "parked", etc ... GOOGLE SUCKS because of this.

4. Nerds with keyboards: "R U A kewl h4x0rs?" .. "TIA", etc ... "wankers" is a good description of these people.

5. Spam: especially the obnoxious one "here's the stuff you wanted" as a title, or misspelled words like "p3n|s" instead of PENIS and "v|@gra" instead of VIAGRA. (Nerds with keyboards are likely to blame here too!)


With these 5 things gone, the Internet would be decent again.

EDIT: 6. Scammers: People that use the anonymity of the Internet to steal your goods, money, etc. Bastards. Most of them are foreigners, typically South America, Eastern Europe and Asia. Most USA-based scammers tend to come from California, New York and Florida. Why is that?

[tgpo]

Top five all time horrible Internet crap list

1) Microsoft. They buy good things, Hotmail, and turn them to CRAP! They also try to force their crappy browser on others.

2) Pop up ads. The reason I love Safari

3) 404. I wish people would kep their links updated

4) "Soon to be updated, check back soon! Last updated Oct. , 1998"

5) 13 year olds who think they are real hackers because they speak hacker talk.

[Rookie64]

1 CONNECTIONS - not being able to get on, being disconnected (especially in the middle of a long message that gets lost in the process), slow connections, etc.

2 (Same as lordsmurf) Self-installing crap - ActiveX, spyware, virus, trojans, hijackers, etc

3 SCAMS - people/sites/links that lure you in only to get you trapped in a web of popup attacks or to make you pay to access (when it's stuff that can be found elsewhere for free or that used to be free) or other traps that steal personal info.

4 BOGUS INFO - there's plenty of it around every corner.
People who claim to experts are usually the ones to be most wary of

5 POPUPS - even popup stoppers have a hard time stopping all of 'em.



-SPAM would be next on the list.
-Rude people, or even worse, rude groups of people - lots of bitchy types you encounter all over the place...they aren't that way in person...at least not to me

[Capmaster]

Porn sites that open 59 instances of the browser, all with tasty pics, with popup blocker on, at the same time I hear my wife heading up the stairs

[yoda313]

Hello,

1. Spammers.

2. Spammers.

3. Spammers.

4. Spammers.

5. Typos.

Kevin

[Ripper2860]

1. StarWars fanatics
2. StarWars fanatics
3. StarWars fanatics
4. StarWars fanatics
5. StarTrek fanatics

[yoda313]

Hello,

1. Rippers
2. Rippers
3. Rippers
4. Rippers
5. Getting knocked off dialup!



Kevin

--Ripper2860 - Whatever gave you the impression that I'm a Star Wars Fanatic???? --

[Dr. DOS]

1. StarWars fanatics
2. StarWars fanatics
3. StarWars fanatics
4. StarWars fanatics
5. StarTrek fanatics

Personally I hate links for "free lesbian web cams" only to then ask for your credit card and then not having any freshly scammed numbers to provide them.... That'll piss ya' off

[Ripper2860]

Hello,

1. Rippers
2. Rippers
3. Rippers
4. Rippers
5. Getting knocked off dialup!



Kevin

--Ripper2860 - Whatever gave you the impression that I'm a Star Wars Fanatic???? --

I wasn't directing this at any one particular person. But now that you mention it, I hadn't noticed you were a fan until now.

[indolikaa]

I'm fine with Smurf's list. Covers just about everything for me.

[chicola]

I also agree with LS list, except that GOOGLE is one of the things that makes the net worth every penny.

[Heywould3]

Well i think number 1 is activex type SW.. self installs.
2 are popups but thats a tie for number 1.
the rest are all fine.. lords list was good.

I have 4 computers on my network at home. all with norton and latest updates and security and popup blockers.. and my damn daughter still gets adware and atleast one virus a week.. no other compter gets them. i have her securtiy set way up and yadda yadda..

she gets hers from AIM. she will read a profile and bam shes screwed.. AIM is the devil lol.. dont know if many of you have had it happen.. but there are AIM specific virii and all you have to do is read a persons profile and you will get a message popup which will then either install a program or tell you to click a link which will do it..

k sorry. got to caught up in this thread.

[glockjs]

5) google coming up with 10.324 million results i got time, but not that much.

4) vinyl beastiality pics freaks

3) malicious spyware

2) keyboard jockeys

1) having the limitless web at your fingertips and still being bored

[Solarjetman]

Mistyping your URL and getting to the "Hot Chicks with Donkey Dicks" website.

[ViRaL1]

Mistyping your URL and getting to the "Hot Chicks with Donkey Dicks" website.

Mistyping, eh?

[indolikaa]

6) Hot Chicks with Donkey Dicks.

[Capmaster]

6) Hot Chicks with Donkey Dicks.

www.niceass.com

[Ripper2860]

6) Hot Chicks with Donkey Dicks.

Indo --

Would that be hot chicks Dicks the size of a Donkey's as part of their anatomy or Hot chicks engaged in sweet carnal knowledge with the male member of a four-legged mammal known as a Donkey?

I must know, as there is a difference.

[indolikaa]

6) Hot Chicks with Donkey Dicks.

Indo --

Would that be hot chicks Dicks the size of a Donkey's as part of their anatomy or Hot chicks engaged in sweet carnal knowledge with the male member of a four-legged mamal known as a Donkey?

I must know, as there is a difference.

Ummm...

Ask Capmaster. Yeah, that's it. Ask Capmaster. He knows these things.

[Capmaster]

Hot chicks with donkey dicks. They don't "do" donkey dicks, they have donkey dicks. I came across the website while searching for eskimo amputee porn.

[Ripper2860]

Oh, OK! Thanks !!!

Now that's a visual that will haunt me in my sleep !!!

[mrtristan]

Pricks. People develope the biggest, baddest attitude, behind the computer screen. I'm pretty much the same person online. If I wouldn't say it to your face, I won't say it online.

[Cobra]

Agreed, mrtristan. That's why I'm here, though.

[indolikaa]

Pricks. People develope the biggest, baddest attitude, behind the computer screen. I'm pretty much the same person online. If I wouldn't say it to your face, I won't say it online.

Me, too.

My favorites are the ones that talk-up their shit, but when you lay an Indolikaa Special on them, they cower and run crying to a moderator. Same goes in real life.

I've got no problem telling the guy in Wal-Mart he's an ******* because he thinks he's being overcharged 5¢ on a Hanes T-Shirt and wants the whole store to hear just how offended he is. Piss off, you crybaby bitch, the rest of us in the 20-Items line just want you to get your 30 items checked out and get the hell out of here!

[thecoalman]

I think you pretty much covered my list LS except....

(PS2, XBOX Live, EverQuest etc).... GET A LIFE!!! ...

Blowing up people without actually blowing them up is fun and can let off a lot of steam, especially if your high strung, I suggest you try it some time. :P

2. Self-installing crap as well as sending stuff to your printer! Grrr...

You have no idea how funny I found that when I read your original post. It would have been even better if you were in a office setting with networked printers.

5. Spam "v|@gra" instead of VIAGRA. (Nerds with keyboards are likely to blame here too!)

This I enjoy as they are the easiest to filter, there's only so many ways to spell penis.

[CoasterCreator]

same as LS

but also when you e-mail a pro-cheerleader and they dont respond back ..what a biatch

[flaninacupboard]

Porn sites that open 59 instances of the browser, all with tasty pics, with popup blocker on, at the same time I hear my wife heading up the stairs

This is why god invented the Reset button "uh, it just crashed honey..."

[yoda313]

Porn sites that open 59 instances of the browser, all with tasty pics, with popup blocker on, at the same time I hear my wife heading up the stairs

This is why god invented the Reset button "uh, it just crashed honey..."

Hello,

Or get the ati all in wonder with the tv blended view! That way you have the tv on in the background while your surfing!!!!

Kevin

(I had an all-in-wonder before my wintv but the sound was always scratchy so I traded it in before my 2 weeks were up!! - 2years ago!)