(before I say this, legal nuts note that my opinion is mine alone, you’re welcome to use it if you want)
I found about the “im initiative”.
According to that, Microsoft will donate a portion of advertising revenue when people use their services to send emails or instant messages.
Let me get this straight, Microsoft is asking people to outright increase their profits for no specific reason, except that a (currently unknown to me)% portion of it will go to some nonprofit organization.
Now why do I think this is foolish?
At the end the revenue will be gotten from advertising, which is displayed during a fricking im session!!, and what’s worse, either the retard who’s signed up for this service, or the person chatting with him/her have to click on the ads, and will probably end up paying money. And of that, a few cents will go into microsoft’s pockets, and a cent or two goes into the non profit organization. This is more or less to make people think “hmmm… the more I message, the more I’m helping people.”, this causes unnecessary traffic, which probably travels around the world a couple of times, routed and resolved, queued and amplified. To imagine the amount of impact of a single message on environment, power, and time, you’re doing more harm by messaging and wasting people’s time in the first place. So if you want to help the world, you can cut down on unnessacary messages, or slowly and carefully wade out of the gene pool. Take your pick. The entire program is to just make people feel smug. Pick a program, and start making microsoft some money, and suddenly everyone in the world loves you. Go ahead and talk about the chocolate mousse you had in the local confectionary and suddenly an african village is full of food, and is singing praises to you, divine rocketmonkey764. In reality a few cents from an ad you or a friend clicks on will go into some organization’s pockets, while most of it will still go into microsofts. The entire system is really un-transparent. How much percentage of money goes in, how much did a single user contribute, that’s all never going to be revealed and is probably dumbfoundingly low.
A few of you are going to say “You cynical prick, they’re trying to help people and you’re bitching about them.”
I reply, yes, it’s a good idea to participate in the program if you regularly use Live messenger, or hotmail, and you live in a country where this is supported.
What microsoft is trying to do, however, is forcing you to use their ad-supported(ugh) service, and use it more than required, wasting yours and everyone’s time, in an attempt to think that you’re doing a great deed.
Worst thing is they’re trying to take the thing viral, right to the heart of the astonishingly dumb internet.
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1 Response to “i’m A FRIGGIN RETARD!”
You sound like such a smart person. Did you have to use the word retard?