RE: Unwanted Audio Ads (why not just turn speakers off?)
CARMEN PAULINO <clpsf_at_mindspring.com> WROTE:
> What one person considers <<shouting>>, another
> person enjoys. The posited logic that each viewer
> should control what she or he hears from his/her
> computer, and <<not the marketing team for Spielberg's
> latest film>> is inscrutable. Can you imagine if each
> Web operator had to design a Web site to fulfill the
> specific inclinations of each viewer? Would we refuse
> to enter an elevator and instead walk up 60 flights
> because we haven't chosen to listen to Muzak? Do we
> refuse to shop at our conveniently located supermarket
> because it plays music that just might not please our
> standards?
Using physical world analogies is sometimes an effective
tool to prove one's point but by no means can it be
used in all circumstances. Here, the comparison with
elevator and supermarket is flawed just because web
sites are nowhere near being like elevators and
supermarkets.
And there is such thing which exists both in the
physical and the "virtual" worlds is plain courtesy
- can you *please* allow me or any other person to
not hear sounds from your website when it might be
inconvenient, even embarrassing to do so? Is it so
hard to do?
> Mr. Shepherd very sanely points out that as viewers,
> we *are* in control -- we have the choice of staying
> or leaving, or turning the sound off.
Yes, we have a choice. But you can offer us a choice
*before* we get ourselves into an embarrassing situation
wherever we are.
Thank you,
Eugene Pervago
Ulka|Technologies
http://www.ulkatech.com/
Received on Fri Jul 13 2001 - 11:17:31 CDT
