I find marketing pop-ups (etc) incredibly intrusive and narcissistic, at their base (i.e., I don’t CARE what you came here to do, my desire to sell you something is important enough to keep you from concentrating on it).

HOWEVER, ongoing updates due to software “improvements” (*especially* those that change the user interface in the process) make me crazy! [er] – ::grin:

Aside from the interruption of my “to-do” via the pop up notice that there is an update, as a touch typist, updates with user-interface changes debit speed of accomplishment as thoroughly as rearranging my computer keys nightly might! (ITunes is HORRIBLE about that, as an example.)

I wouldn’t update if I could know in advance that I wouldn’t be able to work effectively until I learned the new interface – in fact, I’m usually the last of my friends & colleagues to accept an update (just about the time a NEW “new update” popup starts annoying me).

Great article – linked to one of mine in the Intentional Attending Series on my ADD-focused WordPress Blog, ADDandSoMuchMore.com – search for “ABOUT Distractions” to check it out.

Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CMC, SCAC, MCC
– ADD Coach Training Field founder; ADD Coaching co-founder –
(blogs: ADDandSoMuchMore, ADDerWorld & ethosconsultancynz – dot com)
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