it's not just grumpy old fartness, i swear

[sophiaserpentia]

So i'm seeing more and more links on LJ which include Snap Shots. These serve no discernible purpose other than bling. It's not like the preview you get of the page in question is readable, or is going to make any difference in whether or not you click the link. In fact, i find they slow me down, because they make me pause before clicking a link i was going to use.

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I think the concept has potential, so i worried that my negative reaction was simply a knee-jerk opposition to anything new. My objection would be assuaged if only the little pop-up gave something truly useful.

Mouseover links seem to be the new detritus on the information superhighway. The ones that show up in the text of email messages on Yahoo seem to be actually useful; however, when they show up under random words and phrases on various other pages (often with the text stolen straight from Wikipedia), they seem... i don't know, kind of alien, like the product of a non-human intelligence.