Online behaviours that piss you off

[The Curmudgeon]

We live in an ever more connected world, where our online lives are connected more and more to our everyday lives. Which might explain why there are so many irritating pricks on the internet.

I'm not talking about trolling, more THIS sort of thing.


1. On some celebrity news piece, "Kim Kardashian marries Kanye West" or something, some dick will always, fucking ALWAYS write "who?" As their only comment. If you don't know, or care, who someone is, WHY would you read an article on them? And why is claiming ignorance on someone such a badge of honour? I don't care if they're some bottom scraping Z-list celebrity, if you're asking "who" they are, then why the fuck are you reading it instead of the endless amount of other information out there? I read an NME article about Prince scrapping his social media accounts, and someone, of course, wrote "who?" If you really don't know who fucking PRINCE is, then get off the internet and hang yourself.

2. Latching your own far-right political agenda to any news article, regardless of how tenuous or redundant it may be. There was an obviously light-weight article about how fast Santa Claus would have to travel around the world to deliver presents, and someone put it upon themselves to comment on how much faster he'd have to travel around the UK now because of all the immigrants. Keep dragging those knuckles on the pavement there, genius.


What other online behaviours grinds your gears/grates your cheese?

[Ben]

Christ, I extend your #2 to any political or religious commentary. Everyone acts like their own views are the most novel, groundbreaking shit since the New Deal. It's insufferable. I saw a review for a popular album the other day on Amazon with some 550 comments or so. Initially it's just people ragging on the reviewer, and then someone made a comment about how people could write better before Fox News went on air, and then the most recent comments were debating the existence of god. Fucking shoot me.

I also can't stand on Amazon in particular how everyone who reviews an item and gives it fewer than four stars has to awkwardly state "I know I'll get downvoted for this" and then proceeds to apologize for having an opinion.

There are also YouTube commenters, who collectively might deserve the title "Bowels of the Internet."

[trashcanman]

All of it. I'm about sick of the entire internet. Present company excluded. I don;t mind people discussing politics or religion or whatever, but I wish they'd at least learn something about it first instead of going with the "anything I read on Twitter or just now made up is the TRUTH!" approach. Check this shit out.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning

Yes, it is now a widely mockable offense to request that people produce evidence to support their claims in a civil manner. Obnoxious, uninformed hyperbole or GTFO.


Clickbait articles are really starting to piss me off, though. One guy titled one something about UFC female champ Ronda Rousey getting into an "altercation" with a pro wrestler and she really just put in an appearance at some wretling event and did a bit with one of the stars that was clearly not any sort of conflict. Or even news. They just wanted to title it something ridiculous and stupid to get you to click on it out of curiosity. Any title that wildly overstates or misrepresents its content should be fucking deleted from the web.

[lemex]

People who post overtly inspirational posters to their Facebook wall, things like 'The only way you move on is be strong'. They are not just boring, I suspect they are lies too.