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Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?
TheViewFromTheGround writes "Why have the years since the merger with Time Warner been so hard on America Online? Michael Wolff, a consultant who advised Time Warner not to buy AOL in the early 90's, says that the the big problem is Time Warner's denial of AOL's core value: a monopoly on dirty chat. The argument says that AOL was successful because they had a critical mass of people and that it skillfully marketed talking dirty by appearing to be family friendly. Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways."
Damn! They're taking away the last good thing about AOL. ;-)
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Couldn't this have been worded better?
Compared to paying $2.99 a minute for a 976 number
Well?
"I'm an old-fashioned type of guy. I worship the Sun and Moon as gods. And fear them."
Have you seen the number of Penis increasing emails in the average AOL user's mailbox? These people should have the libido of a rabbit on ecstacy.
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Put word filters on AIM? That just means the 13 year old punks are going to have to start AIM'ing me with "U R SOFA KING WE TODD DID"
When exactly did AOL have a sex drive? The last thing I want to think about is AOL and sex. oh god, I need to go clean this filth off me now.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
You mean it's *not* because AOL just sucks?
Then it must be the superintelligent user base. . .
like this? If only I knew that AOL came with one of those before!
God Fucking Damnit
This would be a perfect article for a 1,000 hours free ad.
Mix the failings of Usenet with the shortcomings of the World Wide Web and the result is slashdot.
Would it be because these Sex Drives are manufactured by Western Digital?
Hmm?
400 pound 40 year old bald man AKA SexxyStud91134: A/S/L???
400 pound acne ridden 38 year old balding woman AKA HotMomma92394848: 18/f/Miami u?
SS: 19/M/Denver.
HM: Sounds good, what you look like?
SS: I am 6'5, 250 pounds of tight muscle. u?
HM: 5'5 petite brown hair.
(uploads random amateur porn star jpeg to each other and proceeds to cyber)
Yeah, you know I'm right. And btw, I hate you HotMamma92394848 for ruining my dreams of AOL women!!!
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
No wonder why all the lusers that got onto irc from AOL had such bad potty mouths.
"Have you seen the number of Penis increasing emails in the average AOL user's mailbox?"
Penis increasing? I hope you're talking about size and not number.
DRM = Digitally Restricted Media. This is a viral sig, pass it on.
HotMomma92394848 is also a 400 pound 40 year old bald man.
being back only reminds me of one thing. Truly large CORPORATIONS do NOT HAVE SEX DRIVES (m$ excluded, but they just get off on fucking other companies up the ass). fact is, corporates lust for power. aol was never the monolith that TW is, until today. they were a very flat corporate culture comapared to TW.
bottom line. using the words corporate and sex together is silly. your warning level is at 20%, thank you, drive thru.
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Denis Leary, is that you?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Ever since I've been on, AOL has monitored the language of chat rooms, which is pretty damn annoying, but it explains why you go into a room and no one says anything, we're all IM-ing each other.
Does anyone remember when you get get real porn from AOL picture galleries? It was sometime in the early 90's. When they decided to go "family friendly" they first blacked out all the genital areas, then got rid of the nudie galleries all together.
Someone might check this. Since Microsoft is better than AOL there has to be something really wrong.
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
2 old roommates. Two guys, just like the pervs described in the article. They would get on AOL and search for user profiles that contained words like "drink" or "party". Then they would send instant messages to these girls (aka "AOL sluts") for 6 hours/day. Once they started talking to a girl, they'd start sending nude pics of themselves to these girls, and sure enough, the girls would come over within a few days. We're talking 2-3 girls per week, n/k. It all came to a halt a while ago when one of them caught a nasty case of the clap. Of course he got it from an AOL hookup and found out he had it by giving it to a different AOL hookup. Without AOL, these guys would have no social life. Anyone else know people like this?
You just got added to my friends list.
thank you.
Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?
been so hard on America Online
old media bedfellow
This gets my vote for "Slashdot Headline with the most innuendos..."
Guess Uncle Ted doesn't like naughty...
not only was the sex drive lost, the whole array went down.
"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it" -- Winston Churchill
Back from the future...
You've seen all of the changes to the SCSI standards over the years. SCSI 1,2 3, wide, fast-wide, ultra, ultra 2. Next will be SCSI extended, or Sex. So hard, fast, swollen and throbbing that no one will be able to resist walking in to a computer store and proudly saying. I've earned enough to BUY a BIGGER Sex drive. What have you got? I need more room for PR0N!
It is now time to flip off your computer.
Not likely. Denis Leary is, for the most part, intelligent and insightful.
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
where the men are men, the women are men, and the boys are FBI agents.
I'm sad to inform you that you've been affected by AOL.
You no longer can discern the difference between "loose" and "lose".
Cut your modem cable, pick up a real book, and you'll be cured by next week.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
...just got a sudden flashback of 17 years ago, AOL was spankin' new, and my mom walked in just as somebody started talking about "stimulating g-spots" in some chat room.. Needless to say I was in trouble... ugh
I'm with you 100%. The news teasers piss me off too.
5 o'clock teaser.."New bacteria that eats your brain found in coffee,story at 11!" Ummm, shouldn't we hear that story RIGHT NOW???? You are right on the money. Religion pisses me off, politics makes me projectile vomit. People with cell phones glued to their fucking ear piss me off. Uncontrollable kids screaming piss me off. 10 registers at Home depot with 2 open and 1 mile long lines piss me off. Waiting to go kick Saddam's ass pisses me off. Hey, happy holidays and new year just the same to you and all here on Slashdot!