Your opinion is important to us

In what is apparently an ongoing series of anti corporate-bullshit posts, allow me to introduce to you this new installment. This week's guest: once again, Yahoo!

When logging in to read my mail today, I was greeted by this weasely little popup, that somehow managed to escape Firefox's popup blocking (don't you just love it when they're being sneaky?). Before closing it, I managed to read on it: "Your opinion is important to us! Please take the time to answer this poll to help us improve, bla bla bla, yadda yadda yadda". Since I don't want to miss an opportunity to say what I think, I thought, what the heck, it's only 30 seconds. So I took the poll, to give my valuable opinion to Yahoo.

How naive I was. What do you think they wanted to know? If I like their spam-blocker? Whether I think they should forward mails for free? Well... not really. They were interested in my age, occupation, and online time. Ladies and gentlemen, I have become a slice of a graph. It's so nice to feel taken into account. Thank you, Yahoo.

posted Friday, December 16th 2005 at 12:04 | permalink