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One thing I can't really deal with are websites that start playing music when I open them. It used to be this way on myspace all the time. I'd be opening up a few profiles (I can never just look at one thing at a time) and all of the sudden, BAM! a crappy song that I didn't choose to listen to. And, because I opened several profiles, I'd have to search for the one with the crappy song in order to kill it. A worst case scenario would be to open several profiles where the music played automatically, one with a moronic video of a monkey playing with itself to the tune of Kenny G somewhere near the bottom and nearly impossible to find. For the most part, they remedied this.

There are many things I always loved about browsing around mindsay. For one, I never had to worry about being bombarded by horrible music as I read a blog. Another is that there are not really that many unsightly advertisements on the site. I hardly notice the ones that are here, unlike myspace where everything is an advertisement for something.

Alas, there has been a change. Every few blogs I visit I immediately close because of music that starts playing that I don't want to hear. If I really want to hear something crappy, I'll play some Kansas, Air Supply, and Michael Bolton simultaneously. But I don't really want to, and this is my choice.

And that is what it comes down to. I can choose my own music. I don't want you to choose it for me. If you write anything interesting and put a song on your blog, I'll never know what you wrote. I'm already looking for the little X that shuts your blog up. I have plenty music of my own I can listen to, I don't need yours. Not very many people are on your blog to hear your song. Trust me.

For the record, here are some other reasons I don't read a blog:

1) It looks like it was written by a coke-addict child with 5 fingers... total... u kno wat i meen>>?

There just isn't an excuse for it, except perhaps actually being a drug addict child missing a few fingers. Even if your blog is just for you,, do you really want to look back at what you wrote later in life and wonder what the hell was wrong with you?

2) The background behind the text looks like some far out optical illusion out of John Lennon's most unfab acid trip.



3) The background and the text are nearly the same color, like this , or something that looks like this.

This is commonsense. As with numbers one and two, I'm not going to work to decipher what your blog says, and I'm certainly not going to risk a seizure or permanent brain damage looking at your text. It is all about contrast, people. Light text on dark backgrounds, dark text on light backgrounds. Simple.

4) I probably won't stick around long if the post looks like an extra long paragraph. Remember: space is your friend. It helps separate ideas into coherent little bunches. There is a great amount of leniency on the internet. This isn't English class or anything. I'm not asking for perfect grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. I never have had much use for it myself. It is just easier to read something that is broken down into smaller bits.

That is all.