12 Very True Rules of Internet

Scanning over one of our favorite sites of all time, Gizmodo, today we ran in to a post that was too true not to be shared. So we’re sharing it with a little added commentary (in bold.)

1) Given enough time, any object which can generate musical notes will be used to play the Super Mario Brothers theme on YouTube.

This is also true of the Tetris theme and possibly also the Jaws theme.

2) Judging by their response, the meanest thing you can do to people on the Internet is to give them really good software for free.

Especially software made by Norton…okay so the original post is sarcastic but we’re not kidding about Norton.

3) Three things never work: Voice chat, printers and projectors.

Firefox needs to be added to this list…seriously, do we really need ANOTHER update?

4) Once a web community has decided to dislike a person, topic, or idea, the conversation will shift from criticizing the idea to become a competition about who can be most scathing in their condemnation. (See The Law of Fail.)

Sad, but true.

5) Any new form of electronic communication will first be dismissed as trivial and worthless until it produces a profound result, after which it will be described as obvious and boring.

We have nothing to add.

6) If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault. (See the post on this topic.)

And you’re probably an asshole yourself.

7) Most websites treat “I like it” and “This is good” as the same thing, leading to most people on the Internet refusing to distinguish between “I don’t like it” and “It’s not good”.

This.

8) When a company or industry is facing changes to its business due to technology, it will argue against the need for change based on the moral importance of its work, rather than trying to understand the social underpinnings.

No one likes change, especially when said change involves technology. Technology is, in most respects, the devil.

9) People will move mountains to earn a gold star by their name on the Internet.

Everything is true if it’s on the internet.

10) The only way to get useful feedback from people on the Internet is to ask questions that are actually answerable, instead of open-ended.

People seldom think for themselves, giving someone free reign to answer a question is like taking a kid to a candy store and telling them to pick one piece.

Bonus rules which apply equally on the Internet and off:

• Never argue against logic with emotion, or against emotion using logic.

But it is fun to watch…

• We hate most in others that which we fail to see in ourselves. (That’s pretty much where this blog started, 14 years ago.)

…because we are all perfection personified…

Via Gizmodo