Being an avid computer geek, I spend an average of 5 hours a day surfing the web. I have run across many, many interesting websites. Some I have never gone back to, others I have become a great fan of. My choice for the Five Worst Websites of the Year are perhaps on your list as well.
The website that heads my list is definitely TreeLoot.com. This website is perhaps the biggest waste of time that I have ever spent online. The first time that I went to the site, I found it very intriguing and somewhat challenging. I was hooked, but after fifteen minutes, I began to feel duped, cheated and angry! How dare the makers of this site lead people to believe that they’are getting warmer’, ’are close to winning’, ’need just a few more clicks’ when I doubt that anyone has ever won anything of substance from the little monkey! My advice is to steer clear of TreeLoot.com.
Sad to say, I must include BrightIdea.com on this list of Worst Websites of the Year for several reasons. To be fair, I will say that this site initially offered me a fun and interesting place to go to several times a day. I loved writing and rating and commenting on the ideas presented by the members. I especially enjoyed getting a small compensation for my efforts by way of checks. However, over a short period of time, I became quite dissatisfied with BrightIdea.com when the site became totally unorganized and began to spin totally out of control. The web masters became noncommunicative and stopped paying out the checks. Then several major changes were made without advising the members, thus causing a great amount of confusion and dissension amongst the writers. This is definitely one website that had great potential but got lost somewhere along the line.
Another website very high up on my list of Worst Websites of the Year is IWIN.com. I was an avid participant for several months until recently. I found myself no longer enjoying the games and entering raffles for drawings in hopes of winning large prizes. The odds of winning were something like 100, 000 to one! Many websites such as IWIN.com lead the participants into believing that there is gold at the end of the cyber rainbow, however, in reality, there is only a big waste of time and energy involved.
RadioFreeCash.com was a fun and interesting site for a while until I realized that I was never going to win anything nor get paid for listening to the various radio stations while I surfed, emailed or played on the web. In fact, I spent many hours enjoying the music only to check my account at the end of a 4 hour session and get disappointed to find that I was credited for listening to only 20 minutes of music! For me, this was totally unacceptable! After all, if a website is going to proclaim paying its members for listening to the radio, I expect to get paid!
Finally, my choice for the all time Worst Websites of the Year has to be CashWars.com. I signed up to help out a friend. Aren’t we all guilty of this? I also enjoy playing games and the prospect of earning a few dollars added to the fun and challenge. I thought that I would love this website and referred quite a few friends. However, this site bit the dust when no one got paid! Hmmm.This seems to be the problem with many websites these days.
I would love to see what other sites you feel are definitely not worth wasting time and energy on. Happy surfing!