Don’t get me wrong. I love the Internet. I love it more than skiing and horseback riding and scuba diving and church and the Eiffel Tower and all the other things that humans are supposed to love. But some things about the Internet regularly bother me, and here they are:

1. Facebook’s photo lightbox

Can this please go away? It’s kind of nice to not have to navigate away when you’re leering at your middle school friend’s baby photos, but it’s just so poorly designed. Fire the intern who made that, Zuckerbro.

2. Huge “sign up” buttons, small “sign in” buttons.

This makes websites feel like they’re skeezy dudes who will shave and put on cologne and buy you steak/wine and then after they get in your pants stop trying. I want websites to be like “Welcome back, you! Oh, are you new here? We are going to paddle you as an initiation cuz we love our regular visitors so much more than you.”

3. Gawker’s Redesign

It’s like an iPad app awkwardly laid out on a browser. Plus the advertisements are now super prominent, making the Old Spice ads of a dude’s head/volcano blowing up seem super insensitive in stories about the Japanese nuclear crisis.

4. Ugly blogs.

Ugly blogs are everywhere. As cool as giant photo backgrounds and white text might seem, they’re really not cool. Minimalism is a good thing, and it takes less time too!

5. Travel blogs

You’re on vacation/ studying abroad. I totally want to hear about it. Not.

6.  Bing

Just die.

7. Slideshows

How many awkward, poorly designed slideshows must I click through in my lifetime? Let’s just put the photos in a post and let me scroll. Scroll > click. “Sacrifice hits for readability,” quoth Jesus.

See, I love the Internet so much I could only come up with 7, not 10. (I also tried to avoid anything painfully obvious, like “takeover ads.”)

What do you hate on the Internet?

–Becky Lang