« Portable Mini Fireplace | Home | Psycho Bath Mat — 'Gruesome, bloody and absolutely offensive' »
March 14, 2009
email 'gumption trap'
Robert Pirsig coined the term in his magnificent 1974 book
A familiar gumption trap appears above.
Oftimes when you click a "send an email" link, instead of being taken right to your mail program, with the recipient's email address up top and everything simple and familiar, you're confronted with a dispiriting page like that up top.
Filling in boxes online to send an email is a dead end.
Too bad most of the franchises crying "Internet wolf" — newspapers, magazines and their ilk — still use the box system.
Just another name for a coffin.
I'd bet 19 out of 20 people, upon encountering the boxes for your name and email address, leave instantly.
And when the Captcha pops up, well — game over.
March 14, 2009 at 02:01 PM | Permalink
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
https://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c5dea53ef011168cebdf9970c
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference email 'gumption trap':
Comments
Interesting... I'm the complete opposite. I personally hate it when a 'contact us' link opens up the mail app automatically. I'll immediately turn away from that, rather than a web form. My personal email address may not always be available via the mail app on whatever computer I'm on at that moment.
Posted by: johnjohn | Mar 14, 2009 3:01:30 PM
The comments to this entry are closed.
