Topic: Web users 'getting more selfish'

[Clive]

Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research.

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[Simon]

"Web users have always been ruthless and now are even more so," said Dr Nielsen.

"People want sites to get to the point, they have very little patience," he said.

"I do not think sites appreciate that yet," he added. "They still feel that their site is interesting and special and people will be happy about what they are throwing at them."

Web users were also getting very frustrated with all the extras, such as widgets and applications, being added to sites to make them more friendly.

I can perfectly understand that.  There are far too many unnecessary bells and whistles on websites, and in some computer programs.  Sometimes, you just want it to do what it says in the tin, and hopefully we've gone some way to achieving that with PC Pals.   

[Rik]

I object to the terms ruthless and selfish. We go to a site for a reason, having achieved it we leave. What's so wrong in that? Emotive language without any justification, imo.

[GillE]

I object to the terms ruthless and selfish. We go to a site for a reason, having achieved it we leave. What's so wrong in that? Emotive language without any justification, imo.

Hear hear!

[Simon]

Hear hear!

Pardon?   

[Rik]

There there. 

[Reno]

What is interesting to me is how corporate the internet has become. When it first got started people hosted up their websites voluntarily for the hell of it. They didn't do it with the singular purpose of raising ad revenue.

To me it's not selfish it's adaptive. It's the public building a resistance to the massive amount of crap being pumped out as webdesign since embedded ads first emerged.