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Sisters Give Birth to Babies in Same Hospital On Same Day {ParentDish}
Jul 21st 2011 6:47PM Same in my family...my grand dad was born on Aug 4th, my dad came along on Aug 7th, I was born on Aug 6th and I delivered my son on Aug 4th....4 gernerations......right together on those days.
Best Vanilla Ice Cream: Our Taste Test Results {Slashfood}
Aug 16th 2010 2:56PM Invalid test.
They didn't test the best vanilla ice cream ever.......It's Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla.
Blue Bell leaves all others in the dust of it's trail.
Cypress Hill Cancel Arizona Show Due to Immigration Law {The Boombox}
May 12th 2010 12:29PM Can you PROVE instantly that you are a citizen? Will EVERYONE who is arrested have to prove they are citizens?
THIS is the problem with that law.
Yes, I can PROVE instantly I'm a citizen, I carry a Voter's Registration. As for other legal aliens, they are supposed to carry their Resident Alien green card, just like a drivers license. I'm a moderately liberal demorcrat, and I've no problem with following Immigration Law. The Laws are in place for a reason, our country cannot support everyone that just wants to move in, no matter how sympathetic we are to their govermental plight. Want to change the laws? Fine, change the laws, but for now, we need to follow the ones we have.
Pepsi Throwback Unveiled {Slashfood}
Jan 5th 2010 1:52PM I've been amazed to have recently seen paid advertisement commercials PROMOTING HFCS.
They actually have a PR campaign to promote this poison to our systems.
Sugar isn't on my January diet, but I have only been drinking diet Coke for a long time. For the last year or so, I've weaned myself off of most of that too...have an occasional one, but don't keep them in the house any longer. I really, really, really love a cold glass of ice water!
Changes Coming to AOL Message Boards {People Connection Blog - OLD}
Apr 11th 2009 7:39PM The following is a letter I sent to aol, I see my address list was picked up on a previous post..I sent to many and suggested they send emails as well...here is the letter I sent...........I received a phone call from aol, from someone on the executive escalation team, but all they did was agree with me.........not much help to agree, but we are still without boards........Let's see how fast this post gets pulled!
To:
Kelly.Wilson@corp.aol.com, Charles.Rock@corp.aol.com, Dori.Salcido@corp.aol.com, ted.cahall@corp.aol.com, joanna.shields@corp.aol.com, Kim.Partoll@corp.aol.com, Jon.Werther@corp.aol.com, BHeikeS8
April 2, 2009
To: AOL
From: Sharon Watson
Subject: Message Boards
There is no way to accurately convey the dismay at what has been done to the AOL message board system.
The changes at AOL in the last three years have not been viewed positively by your users. Increasingly, it's been hard to understand where we have been taken into consideration at all, in any recent programming decision.
When changes are made, it is always amazing to hear people being told that the disturbing change was made because users were asking for it. As an active beta tester for many years with AOL, as an active Message board participant with AOL for many years and as one who has communicated with AOL on many levels through the years, I have never been asked how I felt about an upcoming change, or had an opinion solicited in any way. I have had a far reaching acquaintance with many AOL users through the years when AOL promoted user Community, and no one with which I've ever spoken has wanted any change we ultimately have been told was user driven.
We have just been faced with the demise of our profile system for the fiasco AOL has thrust upon us, Bebo. For AOL to think that would be accepted by those that use profiles, is so far away a thought in touch with reality that perhaps the company needs to crash and burn. It was hard to maintain hope for the future.
I have often equated the changes that have adversely affected User Experience with the idea of AOL shooting itself in the foot, toe by toe.
The destruction and demise of the AOL message board system has now cut out a vital organ necessary for the continuation of life. AOL has taken away the Community that has made AOL, AOL from the user experience leaving each of us an island unto ourselves, cut off from communication with friends, people we have felt become associates, and a specific reason to want to come to the AOL software on a daily basis to...Experience AOL.
Your programming has disintegrated to that aimed at the youth to very young adult category of user. Feature stories have become more and more inane and even what promises to be a story on the Welcome Screen, leading to only silliness.
As a 50something intelligent adult female, you've lost me. You'd think I'd have been a target audience. I have buying power.
You have taken away message board categories of interest in favor of...auto enthusiast? Sports and Travel and Money and Finance all seem like good choices, for specific target groups, but you have left out such other important groupings it's hard to imagine how such a decision could be made.
The Computing category of message board was such a gem of an area. Members...or users, as we have become, helped other people with their problems in not only their personal computers, but AOL issues long after AOL tech support became impossible to deal with or understand. The area of Health and Nutrition....gone. Personal and support area forums....gone.
Those people will leave AOL.
Those people are not interested in the Comment areas below Welcome Screen stories. That is not a community, but only a forum for hatred, prejudice and the unintelligent.
People would have screamed and yelled at the format change of the Message Boards, but settled down, accepted it and moved on with AOL.
What they do not and will not understand, is being kicked to the curb with no word, no warning, no reason to take away what has been part of AOL, what has helped make AOL for all these years. what has brought so many into AOL, day after day.
The UK members were at least told that their message boards were closing as of 3/31/09. There were some areas of US message boards that users were told their message board area would be closing. I know that was reported from the Television board areas. But a great majority of us were not given the courtesy of that warning. There was no time to say goodbye, to set up alternate means of staying in touch and other communication avenues. We were told Changes were coming. While a change can indeed be a discontinuation, that is NOT was inferred and as active message board users, we had no reason to anticipate such an action. Frankly, that was cold, and cruel.
If it is AOL's goal to become only a Web Portal with no internal client support, no community base of user, no loyalty to your user or user to your product, you are well on your way.
As a user with three active screen names and a long history of those being my email addresses, I won't be rapidly abandoning ship. I have too much personally invested in those addresses. But, my use of AOL, my loyalty to AOL, my reason to come to AOL have otherwise been crushed, and you'll find my page views will dwindle. Many other non reactive, intelligent mature adult user have also told me they are pretty much finished here.
Perhaps AOL has it's obituary written and there is an active time line working toward the release of that announcement. If it's not.........it's time to start writing. What was once such a great member based, user friendly, loyalty invoking product in our Internet market has shot off all it's toes, dismembered it's feet and is now cutting out vital organs of it's life. Life support may keep things afloat for a while, but the rest of the body will begin breaking down and total deterioration will kill off the very heart that kept trying so hard to keep beating.
It is with heavy heart I send this......these decisions have affected things I have come to enjoy and adapt as part of my life. Just as when a limb is cut off your body, even when the initial
wound heals, what had been part of you, and where it had been, leaves a phantom pain that just won't go away.
AOL has wounded many, and it will only be a double edged slash that won't heal, on either side.
I have lost all hope.
Sharon Watson
Previously loyal AOL member
The Scary Truth About Cyberharassment {Lemondrop}
Mar 26th 2009 8:10AM Hey Brainiac that's looking for the story..........do you know how to click on a link? Here's a hint.................it's blue!
Crocs auditor raises a red flag {BloggingStocks}
Mar 19th 2009 2:25PM I don't believe the person that calls Crocs a 'shower sandal' has a true concept of what the Crocs shoe is. Until someone has been in an occupation they work on their feet, or have issues with their feet, they cannot truly appreciate what the Crocs shoe can do. I am a chef, I work on my feet on a hard commercial kitchen floor......I have Crocs, I have knock off Crocs. There is no doubt in my feet and legs when I have worn knock off brands instead of the real thing. That's how good the real Crocs are. I don't care how they look, I care about my comfort of being on my feet and making it through without pain at the end of the night.
what ever colors I bought in knock offs, I've slowly replaced with the real thing.
I hope Crocs maintains a long and healthy future.
Classic (Old) AOL Message Board Format Retires {People Connection Blog - OLD}
Feb 5th 2008 3:50PM It's all about the advertising dollar, LPH. It't not that anything is broken or not broken, they just can't add advertising in the old style format. Since that is aol's singular focus anymore, that's the plunge of their direction.
At only a shadow of their former self it really probably doesn't matter anyway. They have already run the majority of the users off with their dithering decisions. The 9.1 software is shoddy workmanship and representative of the company as a whole.
Heck, the new style message boards still yet don't possess a simple spell check program. This is the 21st Century and 'ol aol can't manage to present a 20th century feature.
They expected us to be impressed when they added smilies, and to be impressed we can now add pictures.
That should present some interesting TOS opportunities.
The time is nigh to start backing up your personal files and information you keep on aol. They don't present to me as being a trustworthy holder of information nor secure in their long range forecast.
No doubt the Associated Press has the aol obituary written filed right in front of Britney's.
Belichick Should Have Stayed on the Field {Fanhouse NFL Blog}
Feb 3rd 2008 11:51PM Poor Loser, poor sport, lousy human being.
Cheater.
Spy.
He had a 5 year old temper tantrum.
Congrat Giants............YAY to Miami, that remains the ONE Undefeated Team.........I was THERE for that '72 Year!
Welcome to the New People Connection {People Connection Blog - OLD}
Nov 28th 2007 12:25PM It's a consensus. Everybody hates it......aol at it's best.
Not.
It's still sad watching what used to be a great company and service self destruct.
Said my piece, I'll let them all get back to Celebrity gossip.
It's an aol priority!
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