April Fool’s Day, Worst Day on the Internet
April 1, 2010I personally hate April Fool’s Day on the Internet. Most of the time the posts are just silly nonsense acting as linkbait. It sticks around because people do link to it, so it works. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t annoy me immensely, however.
When an April Fool’s joke works online, though, it has to really be one thing. 100% tongue-in-cheek, as if it was an Onion article. Those are the April Fool’s jokes that are the best. Ones that don’t try to be convincing in any way, but instead poke fun at something else.
Like Google Voice’s April Fools joke this year. Sure, it wasn’t ha-ha funny, but it’s a lot better than a lot of the ones that float around because it really just makes fun of traditional voicemail, it doesn’t try to convince you of something outlandish.
So, even though I hate April Fool’s Day on the Internet, Google Voice just got a link from me, so that’s clearly saying something. And so the jokes continue.
