Social media
Rant mode on: I really wish that people stopped being creative when sending emails. Do not use different font, font sizes, font colors, backgrounds, etc., it just makes your email harder to read. Hint: black text on dark gray background isn’t easy to read.
Think about the reader of your email, it’s not certain that this person is reading your email on the same type of device you are, and the receiver might have different problems reading, or bad eye sight, etc.
I’m one of the people who have problems with bad eye sight and sometimes it’s almost impossible to read an email, or it takes a lot of time.
Someone might say: use an email client where you can control this … yep, that works IF your allowed to use another email client (I’m stuck with Mail which doesn’t allow me to control this).
In short: just send the emails as “plain text” and let the receiver control font sizes, font colors, backgrounds. I have no problem with HTML emails that just contain structural markup (headings, lists, etc).
Rant mode off.
I saw the news that Instagram is/was planning to add 3 second un-skippable ads to the timeline. I became a bit curious about the current Instagram experience (I haven’t used it since last year) so I logged into an account and looked at the timeline. What I saw was the following:
F Sp F Su F Su Sp F Su F Su F Sp F Su F Su F Sp Su F Su F Su
F = following. Sp = sponsored. Su = suggested. This would mean that only about 45% what I see is stuff I’ve actually said I wanted to see. Adding un-skippable 3 second ad videos to this is … I’ll put it this way, I’m surprised people still use Instagram.
But since so many are using Instagram to promote their stuff, and since it seems to be working, I assume I’m the strange person that doesn’t understand how valuable Instagram is for me as a person.
I have a mailbox called “Probably crap” and it makes me happy every time I see it (I usually don’t open it … since it probably contains crap 😋).
Fascinating, I haven’t used Instagram in 5-6 months and my account is real small and very unimportant. But people still try to break into it 🤷🏼 I wonder why, seems like a waste of time.
At work today, I got asked to post a link on my social accounts. “Can’t do, I don’t use any social accounts” was my answer. This made me realize something that I hadn’t thought about before: one of the reasons for me getting off FB, Insta, X … all the posts that try to sell something.
Ohhh … just got a message that Google will delete a Blogger blog om mine … considering that it contains 3 test posts (I have no memory of it - last post was 19.5 years ago) I think it’s OK to delete it.
The top WordPress plugins are… a little sad?
Classic Editor — I get it, but it’s just a bummer to me that we’re like half a decade into the much-improved block editor experience and it’s still not only possible to not use it but one of the most popular plugins is to not use it. I’m hoping it’s mostly just understaffed legacy sites that people want to maintain just can’t prioritize a major change.
Nope, it’s also for people who doesn’t like the concept and think that WordPress have become a bloated mess.
To me this is interesting: some years back I mostly used three social media apps: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Then I started to get disgusted and removed my FB account in 2018, last year I stopped posting to Twitter and deleted it earlier this year. I haven’t posted much to Instagram in several years, yesterday I deleted the app from my devices … will probably keep my account for a bit longer.
Instead I use my own web site and mastodon. And I’m starting to look a bit closer at PixelFed.
To be honest, I never thought that I would stop using Twitter.
I have to admit that I’m hoping that Instagram will start charging people to use it … that will finally make me quit Instagram 🙏🏻
