My top 10 "Why I hate aol list"

ok...some of you may know i've recently gone to the dark side...i now use aol when i travel....

prior to this i've not paid any attention to aol ads/marketing and of course had no idea what the aol "experience" is like...well...it's like the jimmy hendrix experience without the drugs...music..or clothes...

so...my top10 of why i hate aol...


1 - "it's like an electronic verbal chat" - huh???
2 - "you've got mail"
3 - "you've got mail" by britney spears (see attached)
4 - aol keywords...google for morons
5 - "you are connected at 28.8"
6 - "enter our do you look like britney contest"
7- aol browser 7.0
8 - "time for a hot new look...get the hair lips and self tan"
9 - "ready for love...meet singles, try love@aol"
10 - items 6-9 are just todays welcome screen...

sigh...and 11 is ...aol makes my brain hurt and my iq drop...but i get to visit ao and irc on the road...so there is some compensation

and 12...well..everyone else on aol...hehe

13. AOL borks your attachements in AO. :D


Luv ya Ziggy...you poor thing.

wow.. i feel sorry for you zigar.. having to use aohell..
pm me and i'll let you in on a secret so you don't need to use them.

oh.. and btw.. we have a forum for tech humor now.. so that chitchat doesn't get blogged :D

Nice one im sure other people will find many more reason, i personally hate there browser i prefer IE to it. Also dont you not have a proper internet connection or sommet like that, but im not sure.

Whooooaaa that "you've got a mail" thing is soo scary;)

funny?...funny?...there's nothing funny about aol....:D


and tc...i was able to dl the attachment...and it worked...hmm...maybe it's aol encrypted...:eek:

i tested it in winamp...and was set on repeat...5minutes of that...and i would have jumped out the hotel window...

Hrm...maybe it's an end user issue. :D
My...end to be specific.

All I get is a blank page with the infamous red X in the corner.

/me avoids making any comment about tc's end


but...ooh...what's your screen name...you want to have an electronic verbal chat ..a/s/l????


gah...someone shoot me

I don't know if there is the same advertissment on tv in usa. But here (in France) AOL use the "you've got a mail" (in french version of course) in their ad, with 2 young users that think it's fun.

I hate this ad!!

I don't know, but that integrated buddy list gets on my nerves. Contrary to what people tend to think, I don't come online to chat all of the time. I usually have it on permanent away or with everyone blocked. It isn't anything personal, it just gets on my nerves to have it going off and all my windows minimizing to take that message.

I have all of my AOL sounds customized because I hated the default. They are a woman robot, almost sounds as if your computer is talking to you...It's actually pretty cool. And as for the Britney thing...DESTROY IT.....it was ANNOYING AND HORRIBLE...do not share that file with anyone......

And whenever I get tired of AOL's browser I just open IE...I mean, I'm still connected to the internet. And AOL isn't all that slow for dial-up.....

Careful now people you may be infringing upon AOL copyright of " You've Got Mail", and oh Bizo owns one click dah here we call him Bozo Bizo...or crap I infringed on the damn copyrights again. I impinged and degraded their image..lol let them do it to them self.

I think everyone missed the single most reason why AOL sucks, those damn CDs they send out, in the last two months I've had about 10 delivered to my house...

They really need to stop sending that crap out to innocent people who don't want to use their over-priced product. I've even found sites dedicated to destroying those annoying CDs....

http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/

Yeah, but lately the packaging for the cds has been really cool. They came in those nice plastic folders last month, and even though I threw the cd away, I use the packaging for game cds and such. The month before I got a really nice AOL tin...heh HOORAY for FREEBIES!

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Originally posted here by GreekGoddess
Yeah, but lately the packaging for the cds has been really cool. They came in those nice plastic folders last month, and even though I threw the cd away, I use the packaging for game cds and such. The month before I got a really nice AOL tin...heh HOORAY for FREEBIES!

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I got one the other day. It was in a cool little metal tin. I tossed the cd and put my cutom bootable diagnostics cd in it that I travel with... Thanks AOL for the cool CD travel case.........

In my opinion: The only realy good use for AOL is. You could be in the most remote part of the Sahara desert or the deepest darkest part of the Congo or Amazon rain forest and you would find a local access dial up number for AOL..... :D