But it means something else too. It means "you'd expect me to read the page you wrote differently from the way you'd read it yourself, which is insulting."
People approach making websites as if everybody else who uses the internet wants to read as much as they can about as much as they can find. Nobody does. Everybody is like you. You go to a page on the internet thinking:
- Does it have the text I need?
- What would the text I'm looking for look like on this page?
- Within the text I've found, where are the important bits?
- Have I skimmed it right or did I get mixed up on context and complicated sentences?
- Can I leave the page now?
If all of those questions don't get answered a very, very short time, whatever a very short time is for the viewer (10sec - 2min maybe), they will return to their google results and, bang, your page, instead of giving them the answers they needed, was just a roadblock in front of them finding what they wanted, making it not only useless, but better off never having been designed.
That's a harsh fate for a webpage!
So keep in mind what else is out there, write your sentences carefully like an essay, and most importantly,
expect itchy back-button fingers.
