I had someone request a friends hook up on a site I belong to the other day and I tried to check out their profile a number of times and each time it jammed up my computer. I cleaned off my computer, got rid of temporary files and such, to see if that was the problem. My kids are on here a lot and they don't understand how to do that yet. In case you don't these are the steps to clean out your computer.
- Got to the control panel in your start menu.
- Click on performance and maintenance.
- Click on free up space. A little box will pop up and it will be calculating what you can clear out. Then a box will pop up with a list and how much is in each thing on the list. It usually automatically checks the boxes for you but if you would like to keep any of it then you can uncheck the boxes.
- Click ok and then it clears it off.
You can also clear off your browser with these steps.
- Click on tools on your browser bar.
- Click internet options
- Under browser history, click delete.
- Then areas you would like to delete or delete all, then click ok when the box comes up.
Back to my story, I went in and tried again to look at the profile, sure enough it jammed up again. So when I got back out and went to clean off the files again I had picked up over 12,000 MB of temporary files, just from their profile. After 11 tries I finally helped them figure out what the problem was. Can you believe it was too much bling on their page?
Do you people realize that each application you run on your profile page has to load separately? You wonder why people aren't trying to hook up but maybe you are just making impossible for them to see you at all. I was taught that in order to sell online, which is pretty much what most of these social sites are for, you are selling you, the page needs to load quickly. People don't want to wait for the ad to come up. If it's taking too long then they will stop the load and go back to a quicker one. I have done it myself. Adding all this bling and crap on your profile does not always attract attention. Sometimes it keeps you from getting it. Whatever happen to the good old days when a profile was just a profile and not graffiti and other flashy stuff?
I don't need someone to stop by and leave me stickers, a simple hello is good for me, or a how are you, something simpler than a huge sticker with flashing lights. I see you ok, you don't have to scream at me. If you want more attention you may want to tone down your bling so people can actually see who you are. It's fun but who are you under all those lights and flashy things? Sometimes the lights are so bright it's blinding.
Another thing that gets annoying is the auto play with music on profiles. I have mine like that so I can't complain much, but if I don't watch it, I go to see a friend and out blast this music that makes me jump out of my seat. Someone's page actually blew my speakers the other day. I am sure it didn't help that my daughter was online and she is into some pretty hard core rock and has the speakers too loud, but still. Wow, how much more can we say about ourselves? We're flashy and loud.
Pretty soon our whole language will be blinged up along with our profiles and some where underneath it all will be us, the users of the internet. Eventually someone will find us and tell us how to navigate through all the lights, flashing, music and get out of the bling to find the world of people we never got to see.
