Memo to Everyone Who Has a Blog

People hate it when they click on your blog and are sitting there reading and suddenly, out of nowhere, music starts playing. Even if it's awesome music or completely beautiful music or music everyone likes. And ten times out of ten the music is turned up all the way on the site, so it comes through blaring unexpectedly.

And then there's the mad scramble to find where the sound is coming from to turn it off. And most times, the music is located in a tiny little plugin on the very bottom or way down on the side of the page. Meanwhile, everyone in my department or my house, wherever I happen to be clicking to your blog from, is getting really annoyed - but not as annoyed as I am - that I have this damn music playing at full volume.

I know you think it's cute and that it adds personality to your site, but please take the damn music or video off your site that plays automatically. At the very least, make it so that people have to make the decision to turn it on. But please don't shove it down our throats while we're trying to read about your kids or your dog or your weekend at the lake.

Oh, and your blog background is annoying, too.