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Those little annoyances...



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Those little annoyances...

Posted 04-09-2008 at 12:01 PM by Typhanie
I'm not sure if it's just me or not, but I get terribly annoyed when I see a post that says something like, "my pet just died last night at only one third of its lifespan, and I just got another two to replace it! Let me give you some advice on them, I know what I'm doing."

Clearly I don't know the circumstances surrounding the animal's death in posts like these that I see, but they really bother me. It always makes my skin crawl. Like if you can't keep your animal alive and healthy, why one earth are you buying more, much less giving advice on them? I rather appreciate when people add some background so that we know whether it was a situation beyond someone's control or not.

That and the "I just got into reptiles yesterday, but I've decided to buy about 45 of them, even though I don't really know how to take care of them yet" posts. I find myself wanting to yell at them that unless you have a LOT of experience, and a pretty stable home and source of income, you're going to quickly be overwhelmed, and not care for any of them right.

*Sigh* Just my little pet peeves from forums. Those are two of my biggest, along with the "my animal is sick, but I won't do anything to help it, even though you're giving me good advice. Oh noes my animal just died! Feel sorry for me." They break my heart.

Anyway, just felt like getting that off my chest. (This isn't about anyone in particular, just a general it annoys me rant.)

On another note, Flickr just started doing video. That's total crap. When I joined (pre-pre-yahoo), the staff maintained that they wanted to hold Flickr to certain standards. No smilies, or annoying animated gifs, or uber-popular videos or anything. Just a nice, simple place to upload photos into a personal online photo album, and civil conversation in a community setting. Then yahoo bought the company and they swore up and down that nothing would change. But it's turned into a tweeny-bopper circus already, with ads, etc. Wait, what was that about nothing changing?

Same thing has happened to about half a dozen sites that I liked initially, but sold out to big companies and became the greatest hangout for 12-year-olds evar!!! It's kind of annoying, because I like the community and interactive aspect of things, but I don't want to them to become ultra-popular money making machines. I guess I'm just a freak that way.

So now I'm on the look out for a smaller, better online photo service, that hopefully won't sell out to yahoo or google or microsoft.

Meh. I shouldn't blog when I'm not feeling well. I don't have a lot of energy right now, and I just wasted most of it getting angry at things out of my control. Sad huh?

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nicole's Avatar
I know how you feel about the whole animal thing,, I see it all the time in PERSON! That just makes me sick! The oh well it died, I will just get my kid another one, really peeves me! Sometimes it feels like no matter how much you try to educate, you are just wasting your breath. For some reason the human species thinks it ok to treat animals like that, after all we are on the top of the food chain, so it should be our right to be complete and total wastes of life, grrrr...
The ones that get me are the ones who have been given the advice, and they know they need to change, or go to the vet, but they refuse to spend the money on "just a lizard" or "just a snake". !
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Posted 04-09-2008 at 02:13 PM by nicole nicole is offline
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Moshpitrockchick's Avatar
Don't worry about Flickr, there is something better on the horizon.

*Devious Grin*

If you agree to write me a few photoshop tutorials I'll let you in on our little secret that is in the works.

I'm unhappy with the whole flickr/yahoo merger, and even more worried about the stupid video thing.

I HATE this glittery 'awards' too, I always delete them.
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Posted 04-09-2008 at 06:10 PM by Moshpitrockchick Moshpitrockchick is offline
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Nicole, as bad as it is to see this stuff online, it's that much worse to see it in person. And you deal with it all so often. I don't understand people either.

Lacey, say the word. I'd be happy to write up photoshop tutorials. Especially for secrets.

I was really worried when they merged. At first it seemed okay - the price of a subscription went down and nothing horrible happened - then, gradually, they just started to add things in. Then when yahoo shut down their own photo service... Well I'm just not sure it's worth paying for an account much longer. I kind of wish I hadn't paid up early through next year. I really hate those sparkly animated awards and invitations too. Now instead of getting real comments, you get a hundred *****You've Won!!*******Join My Group***** comments. :P
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Posted 04-10-2008 at 03:39 PM by Typhanie Typhanie is online now
 
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