Pandora's box
Pandora's box has been well and truly opened. The corps have taken over the Web. Welcome to the jungle.
Just to sell you stuff
Doesn't really work on me. I have a very efficient ad-filter in my brain, in fact generally had opposite effect on me, if I see ads I leave, even if I was interested in the article.
I hardly even look at e-mail any more as it is mostly ads so no point.
It is very interesting when you look at the alternative viewpoints based on people age. The new generation have no problem at all in sharing everything whilst the old lags are a bit more cagey.
Personally, I almost never use Skype so does not affect me, and I can't think why one would send a link to their account so all very odd.
On a very tangential side-note, going back to glossing over adverts, and this may be interesting (or not) to the writers; I realised the other day that when I read a book, which is not often enough these days, I don't actually read it properly. I take in a certain percentage but then my brain will ad-lib, still guided by the plot but some of the detail gets adjusted or even invented. I tend to get very absorbed when I read, superfluous to everything around me, almost like a trance. I think this really helps in not seeing adverts.
It is a similar thing with music. I don't really listen to the lyrics as such, I get the emotion and theme and get lost in my own version.
My wife thinks there is something wrong with me. She is very much the opposite. :smilie:
