The Original Rants: "Advertisements"

Since there's really nothing for me to write about right now, I decided to post another one of my old rants. Enjoy.

I was in the middle of a perfectly nice game of Bejeweled on MSN today when suddenly my game was at a standstill. “Your game will resume in 10 seconds”, the screen told me. Slowly, the numbers counted down in a time span that I am sure was more than 10 seconds. Meanwhile, an ad for the Atkins diet was shoved in my face. First of all, I am not on a diet. Second of all, I came to play Bejeweled, not to see some stupid ads every three levels or so. It’s bad enough that when you click on the game to play it, it shoves a huge ad in your face and makes you click again to actually start. But this? This is insane.

If you go play a game on MSN, you’ll see what I mean. They have four ads on the page where you select the game you want to play. Then there are three ads on the page where you select if you want to play the game online or download the *free* trial version, or you can even play for cash when available. So I click to play, and half the times they show me an ad and make me click again. Then on the screen where I can actually play, there are another two ads on the side. Then they have to shove ads in every few levels! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS?!?!

If I want to go on a diet, I’ll look for diets myself. If I want a new car, I’ll go to a car dealer. If I want a new pair of jeans, I’ll go to the store. I DO NOT NEED ADS SHOVED IN MY FACE EVERY TIME I WANT TO PLAY A GAME!

I understand that MSN needs money to keep them going. But this? This is insane.

Our world is simply drowning in ads. You don’t have to look very far to see them. In fact, it’s hard not to when they’re jumping up every time you open a page on the internet. Free prizes? Yeah right. I’m the 100,000th visitor? Possibly, but not EVERY TIME I go to that same page. They’re just shoving a bunch of crap in our faces, hoping that one of us is stupid enough to believe them.

And just wait, folks. It’s only going to get worse.