Nearly all the examples on that page seem to be distracting and not needed. I can't think of many uses where this would be overly useful or helpful to a user.

Nearly all the examples on that page seem to be distracting and not needed. I can't think of many uses where this would be overly useful or helpful to a user. Reminds me of when we used animated GIFs everywhere and construction men explaining how the site is still under construction...