You might have some hilarious friends who still think rick-rolling someone is funny, or you may know people who toss around NSFW links while you’re at work. You can’t help yourself, you click, you shriek, you close immediately. You fall for it every single time. Here’s a tip on how to prevent yourself from falling for shortened bit.ly link pranks.
You’re about to send someone a link. Good! You put a lot of thought into it, and you’re genuinely excited to share it and see the reaction. Let’s just hope your friend doesn’t do the most annoying possible internet thing.
Earlier this morning I was reading a post on a UK blog entitled “15 more sites that forbid you from linking to them“. After having a chuckle at the list and the stupidity of trying stop people linking to your website I got thinking “Surely Australian websites aren’t this silly are they?”. Oh how wrong I was.
