A Human in a Sea of SEO Words
I low-key hate the internet--or, rather, I hate reading on the internet. I remember distinctly the day I decided to hate reading on the internet. I was trying to find a basic piece of jewelry on a rather famous "maker" website and I couldn't. I couldn't because every, single listing for an item no longer had a nice neat, human title. Oh, no--now every, single listing's name was a scroll-and-a-half of keywords with no discernible order to them. Post after post, page after page was this onslaught of verbiage to the eyes. Not a clear discernible product name in sight. This, in my mind, was the beginning of the internet not being for humans, but rather for other machines. So what then, is a human supposed to do, when the only affordable way to distribute their ideas to the world, is to use the internet? I had a long think about what exactly bugs me about looking at the internet these days: endless ads, unnecessary words, an inhuman touch--and how could I avoid ...