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Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somewhere-between-the-cdrom-and-the-floppy dept.

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."

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  1. Puritans! by kitzilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn! They're taking away the last good thing about AOL. ;-)

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  2. ummm by goon+america · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways.

    Couldn't this have been worded better?

  3. $23.95/month is pretty cheap by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Funny



    Compared to paying $2.99 a minute for a 976 number

  4. A/S/L? by Rocky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well?

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    1. Re:A/S/L? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Slashdot.

      The answer to that question is almost always...

      20's Male, Mom's Basement.

  5. How could AOL loose it's sex drive? by mhesseltine · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. What are they going to do? by Hanna's+Goblin+Toys · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

    1. Re:What are they going to do? by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 5, Funny

      why's everyone got to pick on the furniture? what the hell did we do to you?

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  7. Sex Drive? by Flamesplash · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  8. Is a sex drive by cxreg · · Score: 5, Funny

    like this? If only I knew that AOL came with one of those before!

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  9. AOL Lost its Sex Drive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would it be because these Sex Drives are manufactured by Western Digital?

    Hmm?

  10. Typical AOL chat room conversation.. by LordYUK · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!!!

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  11. Re:Chat rooms are what made AOL great... by MrLint · · Score: 4, Funny

    No wonder why all the lusers that got onto irc from AOL had such bad potty mouths.

  12. One is enough by Mard · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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.

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  13. You're wrong... by Izang · · Score: 5, Funny

    HotMomma92394848 is also a 400 pound 40 year old bald man.

  14. corporate sex by kraksmoka · · Score: 3, Funny
    until recently, i have been out of the BIG corporate business world, choosing more artistic, and entrepreneurial clients.

    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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  15. Re:Here's My Rant about "Safe Communities" by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Denis Leary, is that you?

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  16. dirty chat is why I keep my AOL by budcub · · Score: 5, Funny
    I got AOL and an ISP account at the same time, in December 1995, and I've kept both. Why? Because I can hook up and get laid from AOL chat rooms, while on IRC I'd only meet freaks. That's a generalization, but its true. I've met mostly freaks on IRC while on AOL I'm much more likely to meet a regular person. Also, they have a "bring your own access" plan, where you pay a much lower fee each month, and access them through TCP/IP and an ISP. Its much faster than dialing up anyways.

    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.

  17. Re:Here's My Rant about "Safe Communities" by geekd · · Score: 3, Funny

    You just got added to my friends list.

    thank you.

  18. well, by FakePlasticDubya · · Score: 5, Funny

    not only was the sex drive lost, the whole array went down.

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  19. Welcome to the internet... by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 4, Funny

    where the men are men, the women are men, and the boys are FBI agents.

  20. Re:How could AOL -loose- it's sex drive? by saskboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  21. Flashback by ksw2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...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