All Quiet on the Dooyoo Front (dooyoo Addiction)

Name: Frankingsteins

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Product:	dooyoo Addiction
Date:	11/05/04 (86 review reads)
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Advantages: Earn money, enjoy writing and reading, and talk to people, No obligation to write reviews or keep visiting, Great website

Disadvantages: Can take up a lot of time, Members have to keep control over themselves, Site has the occasional bug

This is my one hundredth review on Dooyoo, and the last I will write for some time. Feel free to return whence you came if you don?t fancy reading what will doubtless be a sentimental and personal review, hopefully containing some useful information. Also, apologies if you found this review while searching for an opinion on the annoying band Jane's Addiction or the TV programme Noel?s Telly-Addicts as that is not the subject of this review (it?s Dooyoo addiction), and personally I think you should redirect your interests. Especially the Noel Edmonds thing.

The consumer opinion website Dooyoo offers financial rewards in return for writing opinions on products and services, and many users will end up posting a great number of reviews in order to obtain these rewards. There is nothing wrong with this practice, as long as thought and care is given to helping other users attain the same goals by reading their reviews; it?s when you start to enjoy it that the problems can start.


TOTALLY ADDICTED TO DOOYOO?


I admit that last line was an exaggeration, and in fact it would be very hard to describe someone as literally being ?addicted? to Dooyoo. If someone were to apply this term to a Dooyoo user, they would probably attempt to disprove it by smugly stating that the definition of ?addicted? is, ?to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance?, and that a metaphysical website cannot have this effect. But a more learned someone would say ?no actually, because addicted can also mean, to occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively, and this could be applied to activities such as Dooyoo. Not so smug now are you, Kevin??

There is nothing compulsive
about my time spent on Dooyoo, but I do enjoy visiting, and reading and posting reviews. A lot. But I can give it all up.


BENEFITS


Dooyoo is a fantastic website for me, for several reasons:

THE MONEY ? Not the only reason I write on Dooyoo, but this is the reason I started, and most of the reason why you are now reading my hundredth review. Dooyoo?s financial rewards are not overwhelming but are essentially very fair, and provide me with the opportunity to spend less of the money from my important building society funds when I desire DVDs, CDs or books. If you are dedicated to writing on Dooyoo, you will likely be satisfied with your rewards, especially if reviews are crowned or awarded ?competition winner? status.

THE OPPORTUNIT Y TO WRITE ? I have known since I was young that all I wanted to do in my life was write, although in them days I would more often be found writing and drawing tales of how Doctor Disguise would have a confrontation with an electric eel than writing a review on ?I?m Alan Partridge.? I would be the first to admit that I hardly know anything about important world, social and political events, and therefore don?t really have an opinion on anything important, but when there?s the opportunity to debate whether Iron Maiden were at their creative peak in 1986 or 1988, I make my voice heard.

PEOPLE ? Obviously, reading someone?s review on a product or service they like or hate does not compare to meeting them in person, but after familiarising myself with some of the regulars on Dooyoo I became interested in reading all of their new reviews, and commenting on them. The unoffic
ial and expertly-created Tooyoo guestbooks and Chatterweb can further this interaction, and at least talking to other members through these means will not likely end with a sweaty forty year old asking you to send pictures of you in just your boxers, as can happen with more popular chat facilities on the internet. This has only happened to me twice on Tooyoo, although bear in mind that I am joking.


CONSEQUEN& #67;ES


There are several obvious side-effects of writing and reading on Dooyoo on such a regular basis. First, it can get a little time-consuming, as most reviews take around an hour to write and I spend a lot of time throughout the day reading and commenting, but Dooyoo is not a job; there is no commitment to writing a review on any day, unless you stupidly impose such regulations on yourself as I did for a while. This led to me producing some reviews without as much effort or thought as the ones I genuinely wanted to write, and I soon learned to only write when I felt like it. It was when this still meant writing every day that I realised I may like Dooyoo a little too much.

Writing on Dooyoo almost every day also has an effect on my other writing commitments, although I can easily prevent this. In a recent Business and Economics lesson, I noticed that I was unintentionally applying my faux-naïve criticising idiot approach to a question based on the Government?s efforts to reduce the environmental problems of traffic, and with exams coming up I realised it would benefit me not to get into this habit.

This brings me onto the reason for me staying away from Dooyoo for a while: A-level examinations.


COLD TURKEY


As much as it depresses and bores me, reading and learning ass
orted literature of the First World War would guarantee me a better English Literature grade than reading opinions on films with interesting nude scenes, even though the latter is of much greater personal interest to me, and probably more useful in life also. There?s also William Blake?s Songs of Innocence and Experience to revise, not to mention Shakespeare?s Othello, which is surprisingly enjoyable (but still a little rubbish obviously). It is important that I familiarise myself with a lot of modern and contemporary World War I-based literature for a three hour synoptic paper and as such I need to read several more books and poetry collections, having only read Remarque?s ?All Quiet on the Western Front? and a couple of poets. I?m going to get some Blackadder quotes in there as well though, I have my principles.

Once again, I have to stress that I?m not going for sympathy or ?good luck!,? but it is going to be very difficult to get out of the Dooyoo habit and prevent myself from spending all my spare time on this website.


MY EXPERIENCE


I am on the computer a LOT, and as the internet is excellent at providing distractions I often stay online for much longer than is strictly necessary. Whether it?s selling items on eBay or writing on Dooyoo, if I?m sitting in the chair I feel the need to stay and check up on my profile page very often, in case anyone has left a comment on one of my reviews.


Typical Frankingsteins Dooyoo session: log on and check if there are any new comments on my recent reviews. Then read any new reviews on the list and leave for a while. Come back after a few minutes (unknown duration, as time passes differently when you are on the internet) and may be get to work o
n a new review, which I then post. The screen will then usually stay on Dooyoo for a very long time as I wait for reads and comments, and also use the time to check on other peoples? new reviews. I could just do it all later in the day in about half an hour, when I would be on anyway, but I like to stay there despite the fact that there is literally no point. This can?t be good.


I am really, really skilled at finding a displacement activity in any case, however the internet is the only one I lose a little control over. Watching DVDs, listening to CDs, stroking the cat and writing incredibly poor short stories about the Chuckle Brothers as detectives, etc. will get me through. (Believe me, you don?t want to know the rubbish I write when I get bored).

I would recommend Dooyoo to anyone who has time on their hands, as you can earn a nice amount of money while sharing the satisfaction that people are reading things you?ve written. If you ever get to 100 reviews you can always write a bit of a cop-out review that ends up reading too sentimentally and off topic to be enjoyed, although I would not do that. Oh, I just reali- well I?m nearly done now anyway.


CONCLUSIO& #78;


I am going to deliberately abandon Dooyoo and all its nice members for a couple of months as I am almost certain that my enjoyment of the site will affect my revision and overall grades, but this is not the site?s fault; addiction lies with the user and not the substance, and I must break free of these metaphysical internet mind-imposed manacles to start bothering to get some work done.

This review isn?t intended to be big headed or self-obsessed in any way, so I?m sorry if that impression has come across, and I know I?m only as important as the next Dooyoo memb
er, but I do have a great time here and will return once my life becomes uneventful again, hopefully becoming a guide for one of the available categories. Damn the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and the political and social tensions within Europe for giving us such a bloody and poetically repetitive time as the First World War.


Thank you to Dooyoo for existing (despite its addictiveness) and all the members who have consistently read, rated and commented on my reviews and those of everyone else, keep posting those reviews!

I've now removed the list of members I thanked personally as it seemed to exclude far too many people. But check out my CoF for some great writers! (Also just in case Dooyoo decided to hurt me for mentioning other members)

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