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You don’t really know me. I don’t really know you. Yet I get requests to be added to virtual friendship add lists on a daily basis. This is what the internet has lead us to believe is important. If I have 7583 people on my friends list, then I MUST be somebody, right?

I wonder what this will make of our social skills later on in life. “MSN Speak” already has a death grip on modern culture, to the point where the next generation will adopt our idiocy as the de facto social language norm of this new century. It’s a cycle really, as we begin to communicate like monkeys to the point where, some day, we may end up throwing feces at each other just to get attention.

Ooooh! I gotta go! My MSN messenger friend just came online….

Like a cowboy that never killed any indians, received no key’s to the city, or made it’s way into the hearts of profit searching webmasters, Google Referrals is finally riding off into the sunset.  Of course, since Google Referrals never worked for anything, their depart isn’t as dramatic as a cowboy riding off into the sunset.  In fact, I’ve used Google Referrals and despite getting quite a few clicks, that never turned into a cent of profit.  First they had a little red line of text at the top of the adsense control panel, and then they sent out an email to it’s users.

For those of you who don’t know what Google Referrals are, they’re somewhat similar to Clickbank, Click Junction, or Amazon.  You’re supposed to get paid whenever signs up for a product that you refer them to, through google.  Unfortunately for google, that wasn’t working out as they’d planned, and they decided to just shut it down.  Atleast they’re giving us notice, so we have plenty of time to remove the adsense referrals from our sites.

Note: Referrals will be retired during the last week of August 2008.

Luckily I only have 1 unsuccessful page that contains a referral button.  Battle of the Browsers never really saw the light of day anyways though.

Let me Cut to the Chase:

This post is all in good fun, I don’t actually think old people are dunce because they don’t use IE, and I don’t think people that use IE in general are stupid. The post was written in a rather offensive writing style, but please be aware that I’m just joking around. So, with that in mind, everything thing I say can and will be held against me, but I don’t mean most of it.

There are currently two browsers that dominate the internet, one of which sucks, and one that everybody loves. Of course everyone already knows that these two browsers are Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. What you might not know is that Internet Explorer users are either afraid of change, senile, or they don’t use the computer much. When people don’t use their computer very much, it obviously wouldn’t matter if they used internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox, partially because they had no idea either one of them existed.

Many people just refer to their internet explorer, as Internet. If they found out of another way to connect to the internet then they would probably explode and spurt guts of stupidity all over their bedroom. Nipping the bud from the very beginning is the best thing someone could do. I would find it humorous, and a great justice if the default homepage for new microsoft computers was mozilla.com instead of msn.

Think about it though, if someone pointed a finger at you and asked you which program you wanted to use to surf the internet, before you knew anything about either program, which you would use? I’m guessing most of you would’ve answered firefox. Despite your answer being plenty biased already… I would’ve chosen it because Mozilla Firefox sounds way cooler than Internet Explorer.Then again, if it was my first time on the computer, and someone sat me down, and told me to choose between firefox or Internet Explorer then I doubt I would notice that Firefox was better.

You have to be tech savvy to really enjoy the wonders of Firefox, their marketing scheme, and the pretty colors in their logo. Maybe, if you were a natural to the internet, then you could sit down and decide that Firefox was better than IE7 without batting an eyelid.

Despite Internet Explorer User’s lack of intelligence, many of them can vouch for their precious IE7. For example (not a very good one), I tried switching my dads computer from IE7 to Firefox. I thought I was doing him the biggest favor by switching his browsers. He ended up yelling at me and forcing me to switch it back. I don’t know whether this is because he missed his bookmarks, or because genuinely liked IE7 better than Firefox. I know one thing for certain though; being senile definitely had something to do with it.

I feel distanced from all Internet Explorer users, probably because they have different interests than me. Seriously the only people that use it are the people that are to stupid to change it, don’t see any point in changing it, or don’t have the time to change it. I’ve had to change the browser to FF for both of my parents, so obviously old people are dunce when it comes to internet browsing software. To be honest though, as long as you don’t plan on spending a lot of time on the internet, and enjoying a feature rich experience isn’t in your best interest, than it really doesn’t matter which browser you use.

My feelings towards internet explorer users are left alone in the outside world though. My computer class had to use internet explorer because that’s what comes installed on the computer. Being built in to the computer seems to make the program more trustable… The truth is, I haven’t used IE7 on my computer since I used it to find firefox and download it. When I’ve turned on my Internet Explorer to check how a web page looks in that browser, I get some random popup and for some reason a bunch of toolbars are hovering over the content.

If you want a good internet browsing experience, then go with Firefox… If not for any of the reason above, then get it because of the cool addons. If everyone was as educated as you now are about the two leading internet browsers, the lead dev and his mom would be the only people using Internet Explorer 7.

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