This can't be good...

[conuly]

Six Apart was bad enough, but Yahoo? Wha...?

Edit: readerravenclaw (hope I got her name right) is now saying that the article is just speculating on the possibility that this might happen. Now that I've calmed down and re-read the article... I think she's likely right. Oops. I can read fast, but do I comprehend what I read? Apparently not. Let's have fun with doomsday predictions anyway, though.

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[conuly]

Like what?

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing terribly sordid. I just don't like them. They were okay to begin with, but every single one of their chat rooms and game things have become either inconvenient to use or overrun with idiots, geocities has too many ads to function, and I hate the designs of all their sites.

Really, it would just be an excuse to quit. I'm morally opposed to change. Maybe I'll go to deadjournal, but probably not.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Not to mention, they took away the hello kitty faces from their messenger, and I've had multiple scary encounters with random people through yahoo messenger, games & chats. Those were really what made me dislike it, poor design & customer-ignoringness aside.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

It does seem to be speculation -- nothing has actually happened yet -- but if this is confirmed I'll start weaning myself so that I'll be able to delete without regret within six months. Hopefully it's just a rumour, but I so do not like the sound of it. It's the pay per click ads that get me. The article speculates fairly strongly that that's half the entire reason yahoo would buy six apart, and therefore LJ: to make it into one big convenient billboard. That so does not fit into the concept of the livejournal that I joined, oh, three and a half years ago. Online or not, it's a journal, not a fucking commercial, and I won't have anything to do with it if it changes.

[conuly]

*nods*

It'd be one thing if they were *my* ads, if I were getting money for having them, if I were choosing. I don't want somebody ELSES ads on *my* journal.