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10-14-2002, 02:27 PM

Yay LordKathen!
I have the unfortunate luck to live in the Texas boonies where AOL is one of the only ways to access the internet (still working on switching to texas.net

)
I took my homepages out of the "Internet Ghetto" as I have come to AOL as virtual Hell come to life, not just because of some of the people who use it but also because of the way the company and its employees treat and abuse their paying customers.

I too hope they go bankrupt and end up so far in debt that they never resurface under any name.

Willard,
Your experience in an AOL chat was just one example of how rotten "America Online" can be. You ought to see their Christian chat rooms!
Fortunately, they do allow you the option to block seeing certain people in the chat rooms and filtering the links as well but you just waste time blocking every other person who comes in LOL!
Porn spam is common e-mail box clutter after visiting any of the chat rooms too...what a shame they don't moderate their services! I guess they are just too busy hacking into and messing up their customers computers to worry about it.

They used to have a way of making private chat rooms through IE but I guess without being able to porn-spam and hack as easily that way, they got rid of them which is really too bad...me and old high school friends who don't use AIM or have AOL used to get together and chat every weekend.
MSN is just too popular for viruses.
I use YM now to talk to a select few friends from school and exchange e-mails with the rest.

Not everyone on AOL is bad though! I have met dozens of really good people from across this country through AOL (KHaN included!) and they are people I would call true friends.
There are just as many bad ones though as there are good ones, if not more! I had a guy contact me through a forum dedicated to WWII veterans to request some pictures I have from the 1940's...he is an AOL user and when I chatted with him online after e-mailing him the pics and deciding he was safe enough to chat with, he turned into a total weirdo saying we have a "relationship" now and as "his woman" I have to be online whenever he wants to talk to me...at whatever time he says for me to be there....then he started asking me to call him when I made remarks letting him know he cannot dictate my activities on or off line lol...he was just basically being a psycho and the kind of freakish man that I seem to attract LOL!
*makes a sign of the cross with her fingers* lol
I've blocked his screen name from my buddy list and let his mail go unread. If he ever tracks me down to a point where he can ask why he doesn't see me, I can always blame the time I put into school...no use telling him the truth and having him hunt me down for reals lol!

[ 10-14-2002, 02:33 PM: Message edited by: Moni ]

10-14-2002, 02:27 PM	#9
Moni Guest Posts: n/a	Yay LordKathen! I have the unfortunate luck to live in the Texas boonies where AOL is one of the only ways to access the internet (still working on switching to texas.net ) I took my homepages out of the "Internet Ghetto" as I have come to AOL as virtual Hell come to life, not just because of some of the people who use it but also because of the way the company and its employees treat and abuse their paying customers. I too hope they go bankrupt and end up so far in debt that they never resurface under any name. Willard, Your experience in an AOL chat was just one example of how rotten "America Online" can be. You ought to see their Christian chat rooms! Fortunately, they do allow you the option to block seeing certain people in the chat rooms and filtering the links as well but you just waste time blocking every other person who comes in LOL! Porn spam is common e-mail box clutter after visiting any of the chat rooms too...what a shame they don't moderate their services! I guess they are just too busy hacking into and messing up their customers computers to worry about it. They used to have a way of making private chat rooms through IE but I guess without being able to porn-spam and hack as easily that way, they got rid of them which is really too bad...me and old high school friends who don't use AIM or have AOL used to get together and chat every weekend. MSN is just too popular for viruses. I use YM now to talk to a select few friends from school and exchange e-mails with the rest. Not everyone on AOL is bad though! I have met dozens of really good people from across this country through AOL (KHaN included!) and they are people I would call true friends. There are just as many bad ones though as there are good ones, if not more! I had a guy contact me through a forum dedicated to WWII veterans to request some pictures I have from the 1940's...he is an AOL user and when I chatted with him online after e-mailing him the pics and deciding he was safe enough to chat with, he turned into a total weirdo saying we have a "relationship" now and as "his woman" I have to be online whenever he wants to talk to me...at whatever time he says for me to be there....then he started asking me to call him when I made remarks letting him know he cannot dictate my activities on or off line lol...he was just basically being a psycho and the kind of freakish man that I seem to attract LOL! makes a sign of the cross with her fingers lol I've blocked his screen name from my buddy list and let his mail go unread. If he ever tracks me down to a point where he can ask why he doesn't see me, I can always blame the time I put into school...no use telling him the truth and having him hunt me down for reals lol! [ 10-14-2002, 02:33 PM: Message edited by: Moni ]