Do you get overwhelmed by unfamiliar websites?

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Whenever I go to some school-related websites or financial websites I get so overwhelmed and I do not know where to click. Even my mom navigates around unfamiliar websites better than me and she always says "Come on! What generation do you belong to!?!?"

My mom says I read things on the webpages too quickly and I "rush myself". That could be true especially if I get nervous and start to skim with my eyes looking for the right link to click on.

I think that's same reason government paperwork and/or offices push me instantly into meltdown territory. First, I feel like they're main purpose is to confuse and manipulate me, then there are the overwhelming aspects of too much friggin' information worded in technical legalese type jargon that's hard to make heads or tails of in the first place, since it almost never means what it seems to mean on first read.

Then they break the information up into tiny fragments, spread the fragments over a dozen different documents and make the whole thing into a mental jigsaw puzzle. And gods forbid you have to talk to an actual person and second-guess everything you say when they ask a question "Did I answer that right?" "Will that answer get me kicked off the program?" "Should I be honest about everything, or will they penalize me for not being quite desperate enough?"

I'm having an anxiety attack just thinking about it.

I would of been the same with situations like this..

Especially when I was trying to look for jobs because obviously I need money for surviving college plus also for my travel.
I was on this job search website and for some reason I felt SO overwhelmed and I mean, literally.

But other than that, I don't really get overwhelmed and also "facebook" because I want to keep in contact with people but then people on there doesn't seem to be friendly towards me and saying negative things makes matters worse.... I also seem to be comparing with other people on there and that's quite overwhelming for me.


- superboyian

Yeah, a lot of websites seem like a freaking mess to me. I like simple plain html with big blocks of text, and a very simple site map.

The thing about forms is interesting, I've always struggled to do those.

Poor user interface and poor navigation can drive me to tears.