Tim's Tech Tips

I hope nobody takes this offensively, these are just some of the reasons I think people shouldn't play music automatically on their profiles. I know many of you are going to anyway and that's cool, this is just my opinion.

1. Not everyone on the planet, indeed not even all of your friends share your personal taste in music.
2. Even if everyone did share your taste in music, they would open their own media player to hear it if that's what they wanted to do.
3. If you really absolutely must have autoplaying music on your profile, don't use a player that I have to scroll down and search your page to find, and don't use one that doesn't have a very clear "stop" button.
4. If I am browsing profiles and happen to also be listening to my own music, YOUR music playing a few seconds after I open your page is excruciatingly annoying and sometimes confuses me for a minute before I realize it's just some inconsiderate person's profile, and not my media player glitching.
5. If I have more than one profile open, as I often do, it can sometimes be hard to tell where the music is coming from. This makes it more difficult to shut off which leads me to #6
6. Say I'm browsing profiles on my lunch from work, and I happen across a profile with autoplaying music halfway down the page and I don't notice until its' already half-way into the lyric about someone's milkshake that it's being blared to my whole office at about 6,000 decibels.
7. I often watch movies and TV online.... legally, of course.... and sometimes the movie is very quiet, and I have to turn my volume up. Or I have my volume up anyway, which I ofen do, and I had simply turned down the volume on the player. Then your profile starts playing a maximum volume, something to the tune of "SKEET SKEET SKEET SKEET" both shattering my eardrums and annoying my roommate or coworkers.
8. With internet such as mine, which is supposed to be around 1.5 mbps, but is really about 300 kbps most days, even if I go and pause your music, it still preloads and significantly slows my internet while it's doing so.
9. It's perfectly ok to have music on your profile. But if we want to listen to it, we'll be the ones to hit play.
10. The final reason not to have autoplaying music on your profile: Because I said so. B-)

If anyone has anything else to add including reasons why I'm wrong, I invite you to say so in the replies. :-)