8 Things I Have Learned from Digg
A lot of bloggers sign up with varying social networking sites, like digg, in the hopes of promoting their own blogs or websites. But, if you actually use any of those services, you’ll learn a lot of interesting things. For example, here are the top eight things I’ve learned from digg:
- Turn off the sound on your computer. Either this is a recent development, or I’ve been unlucky enough to start hitting these ads heavily in the rotation, but apparently digg now allows these stupid, annoying ads with sound. My browser is not a radio, nor is it a TV set; I don’t want to hear anything unless I “opt-in” to hearing something, such as when I play a web video. Ads with sound are annoying and a virtual guarantee that I will never click on that ad.
- Lists don’t get dugg nearly as much as blogging “wisdom” would have you believe. You do see a lot of lists, but they don’t seem to dominate as much as we’re often led to believe. It takes a good list (usually) to get dugg, but well-written and interesting articles get dugg more frequently. In either case, you’re going to have to spend some time writing a good article or a good list in order to get dugg, so don’t just hurriedly put some list together thinking you’ll save time. A good list will probably take as much time and thought to do as a good article. So, use the format that works best for your material, and don’t just use a list format because someone says you should.
- We should all be worried about the future of our country. I really don’t know when college students these days study anything. From what I’ve can glean on digg, they spend most of their time compiling lists of “hot babes” in movies, television shows, music videos, and sports. Then, running out of those, they list “hot babes” married to famous people in any of those genres. After that, they put together lists of the best photos of those “hot babes.” Following that, they assemble lists of the best lists of “hot babes.” As for the college girls, apparently they only go to college to pose for sexy pictures in the hopes of one day making it into Playboy. At least, that’s the impression I get from digg.
As a side note to parents, maybe you could just buy your kid a degree from a diploma mill. It’ll be a lot cheaper, and might quite possibly have the same face value as an actual college degree.
- Surprisingly, stuff about “hot babes,” while frequent, doesn’t dominate digg either. Sometimes, days will go by without a single “hot babe” item making it to the front page. Then again, maybe it was because a lot of those college students were away during the holiday break…
- WordPress can’t handle the pressure! Maybe it’s just underpowered servers, but it seems that WordPress blogs are generally less able to handle being dugg than any other type of website. Which either means WordPress isn’t up to the task or, because it’s free, it’s being run on lots of old servers, perhaps maybe some running Linux on an old 386. Who knows?
- Ron Paul is more popular on digg than he is in the real world. If only digg users were allowed to vote, Ron Paul would probably win the election in a landslide. In reality, he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Tartarus. If he can’t win New Hampshire, he has no chance of winning elsewhere either. Not to mention some bloggers [language] are becoming disillusioned with him after learning more about him. Truth is, all the candidates leave a lot to be desired. I say we “Just Say No!” to every last one of them and start over with a new batch. Or, we could go with my plan instead.
- The striking writers should be very worried. Stories on Hollywood entertainment occasionally get dugg, but not nearly as often as funny pictures, silly animal videos or sports bloopers. The best written movie just can’t get the kind of digg love that an LOLcat can. Scripted entertainment? Who cares as long as AFV is on, right?
- I don’t type fast enough. While composing this post, two others have already posted about the stupid voice ads running on digg. Read them here [language] and here [language].
Those are my life lessons from digg. What have you learned?
Digg is a teenage mob. You can’t date it’s sister, it thinks it knows everything and it likes to steal your lunch money. It will meet you after school in the parking lot if you say anything bad about it and it’s always better than you. Any talk about girls, unless pornographic, is prohibited.
Sometimes I wish I was a sociologist. Digg supplies enough study material to last for decades.
Definitely plenty of study material as exemplified in a digg that appeared at about the same time as your comment in my RSS reader. This particular digg was on an 80’s exercise device being combined with an adult “toy” for an “adult workout,” shall we say? The ensuing discussion was whether or not it should have been labeled NSFW.