Can you resist? www.dontclick.it is a site dedicated to one purpose: can we, as searchers/users/audience members refrain from clicking madly on a web page?
My question was, well, why should I? Is this one of those weird granola crunchy activist pages that wants me to believe technology is straight from the Debbil and that every time I use anything more advanced than an iron I’m stepping closer and closer to the Region of the Damned? Well, no. Actually it’s kind of cool. The whole thing is a Flash-designed site and you can explore by waving your mouse around. If you accidentally click, which I did, you’ll get a crazy snowstorm and get kicked off the site for ten seconds. From the site, which took forever to copy and write down since I couldn’t click and cut and paste (really, my only complaint):
“I realized that moving the mouse between the clicks mostly results in dead space/time, which could be filled. These facts combined created a challenge. I could not resist: I took away the Click.”
About 15-30 seconds into your visit, you’ll get a survey question asking you whether or not you miss the Click. I did. I’m still trying to figure out the point of this social experiment and why the Click is something we should be thinking about getting rid of, but meanwhile, it’s a fun site and has lots of interesting info (visually very pleasing as well).
Sorry, masses aren’t smart.
Reminds me of the way people train dogs….with a clicker. It has similar effects on people. You click on a site, you like, you hear the click, associate noise with good.
Whatever
I guess I don’t get the point.