Friday, 6 January 2012

Baby Name Research.

I just had another one of those moments where the world made me sad.

I was just on a baby name website (for research, honestly...). I had scrolled down the page when I heard some annoying music and some American voices. Immediately struck with fear and suspicion, I scrolled hastily to the top of the page. What I found there horrified me - there was a banner ad to the right of the page with an automatically playing video. "Urgh," thought I, "even if I was looking for a 'more reliable pregnancy test,' an automatically playing banner ad with sound would immediately put me off! Why even would they bother?"

I then thought about where I was. I was on a baby name website. A website for folks who find it hard to name their child without help from internet. That ad probably gets so much traffic. All of the traffic.

:-(

Sam D Grover

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