AOL is a POS
Buddies That Promote AOL Draw Complaints
Nov 17 12:57 PM US/Eastern

NEW YORK
Two new buddies greeted chatters on America Online Inc.'s instant- messaging service this week, but they were not universally welcomed.
Some AIM users complained that the buddies _ to promote AOL's movies and shopping services amounted to an intrusion. In a Web journal entry, Mike Masnick of Techdirt Inc. compared them to "buddy list spam."
AOL continues to show that it just doesn't understand the internet user. I have to assume that whatever idiot at Time-Warner that pushed the acquisition of AOL has been "retired". Anyone that's familiar with the 'net hates AOL, and since everyone's growing up with it now, they're doomed unless they totally change directions. And with crap like this, I know what I'd bet on.
- posted by Jasper @ 4:55 AM