Ppl who try to tell me about advanced search syntax every time I complain about Google being broken and useless as a search engine have the same energy as if I said “My car won’t start because the starter is broken” and y'all were like “You should try putting the key in the ignition and turning it :) Glad i could help”
Trying to talk about Google being broken is oddly reminiscent of trying to search for information on Google
Its as if people don’t remember a scant 5-10 years ago where you could type a full sentence with zero jargon and get exactly the result you needed.
These are the things people say to me when I mention it
It used to be *easier to find exactly what you needed when you knew how to talk to the search engine. Now even with the jargon it’s annoying at best to find what you’re looking for.
Google was based off a model where you were supposed to be able to write a full sentence. Before Google was the titan it became, AskJeeves was the model and the entire point was absolutely that you were supposed to be able to ask it a question and it would spit out results. “When was Martin Luthor King Jr born?” was a valid query. So was “How do I change my car’s spark plugs” and “Who won the 1978 contest”. That was the model Google had initially gone with, edged the competition out of the market with, and then slowly but surely has been abandoning. As someone who was around during that time I have noticed it getting worse and worse.
Additionally there are even more fake websites that are just ads, opinions being labeled as facts, and completely contradictory advice. So it becomes hard to sift through the muck to find something actually decent because what gets prioritized are these fake websites with loads of ads and no actual information. It used to be that your first result was what most people who searched for related terms wanted- now the first 4 or 5 results are purchased ad space.
La problema es el capitalismo and all but yeah Google’s problem is that it’s been reduced to an ad machine masquerading as a search engine. And coming from an age of the internet where that wasn’t the case, it’s really sad and frustrating to see.
sweet anonymous messages are so cute because they don’t have any intention of strengthening a relationship or anything the only reason anybody has for sending a nice message anonymously is because they care about that person enough to want to make them feel good without anything in return what a nice thing
stop. its ok. you don’t need to do these things. just focus on functionality(like the video player). we don’t need these little updates when somethings(like the video player) need your focus. thank you for your time but really, tumblr looks great. try to fix more important things(like the video player) so that we can all properly enjoy the features of tumblr(like the video player)
This post is a decade old this year.
I’d like to say i can’t believe they changed the video player and now it’s somehow worse… but i absolutely can believe this. I’m actually not even surprised
Fix this by turning “show upload progress” off in Account Settings 👍
Gotta love the tumblr time honored tradition of telling each other how to turn off fucking annoying updates 🤝🏽✨
I sent them a bug report about this lol
So turns out this didn’t work after all. And you want to know the best part? When I click away the popup, the round “create” new post button disappears. So I have to reload the page to make a new post. Bravo. Wow. That’s how you certainly will get more user engagement.
I know, I know it might be the algorithm and all but I’m actually disturbed by how much content I see on places like Instagram, reels of couples talking about how your partner is toxic if they’re not letting you have access to their phone, don’t give you the code to their devices (Clearly they have something to hide!!!!) if they’re spending time with (respectively) male/female friends on their own or if they’re going out - and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the vast majority are explicitly or implicitly about women being ‘toxic’ if they don’t give their boyfriend access to their social media or have male friends or go out on parties or have female friends (!) (because apparently female friends will sabotage the relationship aka tell her that her boyfriend is a controlling manipulative knob). One woman bragged about how her boyfriend sends her photos and locations every several minutes on vacation to show her that he’s just with the boys and that this is beautiful and normal and 'see, your relationship can be this healthy, too! Don’t take less!’ <3<3<3<3<3<3 Yesterday I saw a guy talking about how if he pays more for stuff like rent or food or sth, he has a right that his girlfriend delete her social media presence entirely.
it’s 'they read my message at 10:15 am and haven’t responded!!!!!’/'they were online on social media A but didn’t respond to me on social media B!!!’/'they received so-and-so many snaps!!!’ culture meeting toxic relationship meeting heteronormative stereotypes and relationship models meeting using therapy language for manipulation meeting 'men and women cannot be friends’ meeting you have to be online and available 24/7 meeting parental child-tracking devices NOW FOR ADULTS meeting abusive partners hiding AirTags in your car (but now guilt-tripping you into taking them with you) meeting women are a passive resource that is accessible to any man talking to her for long enough.
It’s basically turning relationships into a dystopia of their own where you can track your s/o like a fuckin Tamagotchi (and if they don’t let you, they are the evil wrongdoers who are hurting you!). You cannot escape work anymore, you grow up controlled by your family, you’re under constant supervision of whatever loser tiktoker happens to walk by you - and now even your relationship is being turned into a hyper-controlled space. Not to be dramatic, but that’s another space - the most private and most intimate space for most people’s lives - that is no longer private or personal and no longer in their hands.
And I think most of us adults are still analogue enough to see how toxic it is (except abusers will definitely see how useful it is to tell their SO that this is normal) - but you also have kids growing up and bombarded with this content telling them that this is normal and healthy and that they have a right to track their partner like they purchased GirlFriend Premium PlusPlusPlus and are now owed (and it’s so healthy and normal and good!) access to their partner 24/7.
And there is also the simply matter of what it does to relationships if the demon of 'cheating’ is constantly, constantly, constantly in the room without reason. It’s pushing a culture where you treat your partner like they’ve already cheated - for no reason. Where the default of your relationship is treating your partner like that. Which is something that hurts you and hurts them. This is like becoming randomly obsessed with the idea that your partner might be stealing money from your purse or has a second family hidden away somewhere. It’s basically setting yourself up to look for something that doesn’t match up or feeling betrayed if your partner simply…wants a moment of privacy. Privacy and some alone-time is a very central human need. One that in our current time is losing a lot of ground which means that most of our secrecy is now happening in our private lives (someone made a post on here about how young people e.g. are more likely to shut their curtains and stuff). But if you now hivemind the kids into the belief that every person is per default a cheater and under constant obligation to prove otherwise (guilty unless proving innocent at all times), that’s another piece of privacy disappearing and it’s putting a giant strain on your relationship - basically setting it up to fail and do you both a lot of mental damage.
