Internet Annoyance
This fresh year of 2009 is about to be soiled with the droppings of Internet Annoyance slogged throughout the collective lawn we all share.
Instead of turning off our Twitter feeds, closing our laptops, drowning our brains at a dive bar hoping that no Internetties come along to chit chat about their favourite Internet Annoyance, disabling our phones, setting up single day automatic vacation notices for our email, crossing the street such as to avoid even seeing Ritual Roasters, or merely closing our eyes and putting in ear plugs we have decided to protest on this Internet Annoyance Day (commonly referred to as “April Fool’s Day“).
This blog in addition to our Twitter feed @NetAnnoyDay will be used to fight the battle against the onslaught of Internet Annoyances. We hope to place a glaring red flag into each pile of excrement that will throughout the day litter our collective lawn that is the Internet.
Every year these attempts at corporate, and personal, comedy bring our collective internet experience to a grinding hault. The internet we wish to actually use is littered with nuggets of irritating annoyances that sucks the oil from the engine and causes the machine to seize up leaving us stranded not knowing whether to hitchhike, wade through the mud as we walk, or merely stuff our heads into a paper bag and wait for it all to just end.
You can help bring a stop to this:
As was posted on Laughing Squid, “Please remember to celebrate through abstinence.”
Like people who are tone deaf, but do not realize it, many geeks and marketroids think they are able to create comedy. Unless you have hired Woody Allen to be your ghost writer, you may want to reconsider. Internet Annoyance Day has become the de facto day in which people assume they must make attempts at comedy. To go back to the tone deaf singers, it is like the internet has become one large Karaoke bar with no exits. Singing poorly at a Karaoke bar can be good fun, but only when you have chosen that experience. We are stuck in this Karaoke bar when all we want to hear is the jukebox.
Pranks like those perpetuated on Internet Annoyance Day are generally based on the idea that they are unexpected. This has now become impossible. We are flooded with too many “jokes” such that our default response is now to expect an Internet Annoyance rather than factual, interesting, or otherwise useful tidbits. (Albeit some can be occasionally useless, but none-the-less fun nuggets of memedom.)
If you truly wish to grab hold of the spirit of April Fools’ Day, then pick a random day in the year and execute with wit. Please save this day from total Internet Annoyance and have a safe April 1st by practicing abstinence.
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