Boycott AOL Journals

Silly, to have to post even this entry here... but in anticipation of AOL deleting my entry, or my entire Journal again:

JOIN THE BOYCOTT OF AOL JOURNALS!

- Until the advertising is gone, you will find me at http://armandt.blogspot.com/

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Pardon my flair for the obvious...

AOL has thrown-down with advertising on our PAID Journals?!

Not that I pay while "enjoying" 18 free months of service compliments of an AOL "ERROR" (see keyword: SNAFU), but mine is a 'paid' account.

What if I have moral objections against the companies AOL is advertising on my journal?

What if I simply don't want that crap on my journal?!

WTF, AOL? Take that shit down!

Come to think of it, I do have a moral objection to the Bank of America advertising on my Journal. Bank of America does an absolutely horrible job of managing the Government Travel Card program that service members are REQUIRED to use. I don't want my journal used to advertise - especially for companies that are held in such low regard by service members like myself!

That didn't take very long, now, did it?

Comments left - so far - at Magic Smoke:

Joe,

The advertising on our paid Journals is INTOLERABLE.

The advertising goes, or your customers go.

Armand
http://journals.aol.com/armandt/sense

Comment from armandt - 11/15/05 8:08 AM

I will add one more voice to what is going to be a large list of complaining customers. Please tell AOL that the advertising on our journals... that which we have already paid for, is disgusting and unacceptable. Its like a slap in the face. If AOL doesn't learn quickly from this mistake, I will be looking elsewhere to journal. I am a long long long time AOL member (since 1993!), and this is the most offensive thing AOL has done.
Virginia

Comment from ecori - 11/15/05 7:36 AM

Journals now look like trash this morning. If I wanted a seizure-inducing ad at the top of my blog....... well............ I Don't. This is ridiculous and I would like to know who thought it was a good idea to ruin the look of OUR journals with YOUR advertising. I am completely disgusted Joe and cannot believe that someone even dreamed that this was acceptable.

I also cannot ad or save an entry to my journal....... is it because of this tinkering overnight????????

I want these ads off my journal.

judi
Comment from judithheartsong - 11/15/05 7:22 AM

Dear Joe,

I pay AOL-HELL $54.95, a month for my broad band service and this morning I wake up to ads on my journal headers. ???? Joe, I want these off of my journals. As much as I pay for my service I should not, nor should my readers be subjected to spam advertising. If they are not removed, I will be moving my journals elsewhere and going with another server for broadband that is exactly $20.00 cheaper than AOL-Hell a month.

Gabreael


http://journals.aol.com/gabreaelinfo/GabreaelsBodyMindSpiritJournal/

http://journals.aol.com/eparanormal/EasternParanormal/
Comment from gabreaelinfo - 11/15/05 7:12 AM

Joe, I cannot ADD / EDIT my own journal??? But I certainly can read the new add on top of it that AOL kindly put there. Whats wrong with this picture??? I need this fixed - I Pay for this service , I dont need an advertisement on my own blog.

Ellen
http://journals.aol.com/eml625/Onedayatatime
Comment from eml625 - 11/15/05 6:51 AM

I am going to repeat what the others said, I am unable to update my journal and what's with the add banners? I thought only AIM users had to see that???? Please let us know when we will be able to use our Journals again, thanks so much!

Gwen
aka Jadejonez04
Comment from jadejonez04 - 11/15/05 6:50 AM

Joe, Joe, Joe, I have a complaint to make . . . why does AOL feel they can advertise in our journals that we keep now?? I pull up my journal this morning to find that Bank of America is prominently displayed at the topof my journal. We PAY for this service correct? Why do we have no say on where and how AOL uses advertisements? I mean, what's next? Advertisements for Viagra on my journal?! I am not surprised people are leaving AOL by the thousands. This is not good customer service at all!
Lisa
http://journals.aol.com/lisbnjvi/LisasMommyJournal/
Comment from lisbnjvi - 11/15/05 6:46 AM

Well, I'm logged on to my screen name "bookncoffee" but for the life of me CANNOT update my journal as there is no "button" to do so. And I also see we are running ads at the top now. I don't like that b/c it defaces the journal and takes away from how we want it to look. I'll log off and log back on again. I came to your journal hoping to see what was going on. You know we always let you know when we don't like something...but I will say that I enjoy AOL and enjoy journaling and know that you all try to fix things we have trouble with or don't like.
Thanks for that.
Sonya
Comment from bookncoffee - 11/15/05 6:32 AM

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