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• If a significant part of AOL's management was blindsided by the deal, just imagine how the USERS feel!!!! IN some parts of AoL's Chats it is routine to check profiles when you see a new face. They're there to give you some idea if the person dropped in by mistake, or what their specific interersts are, say nothing about refreshing one's memory if a infrequently seen visitor comes in.
  In the Roleplaying segments of AoL, profiles are critical, literally defining once character, and distinguishing friend from foe, amoung other things. The 1000 keystrokes Bebo allots is less than Aol2.1 profiles allowed 13 yrs ago! Many players could not list their affiliations in that small a space.
  
  Add to this the failure of AOL to notify the impending switch over. Granted they've been advertizing Bebo since November, and like most people I checked it out. IF I wanted a social networking "face" I would have moved one of my mundane, not character, profiles there long ago. I want <B>nothing</B> to do with "Social Networking." I'm Clergy, not a minor, sexual pervert, or preditor who needs that kind of trouble. TO have forcably transfered every profile out of AIM into Bebo without the benefit of at least a weeks notice ( they gave us a months warning before dropping "hometown" and relocating pictures), is a grossly unprofessional and inconsiderate act. Unauthorized transfer of copy writed material, my own included, is actionable -bet the legal department will love THAT!
  
  Had they given fair warning, and better still, made Bebo an Option, their tech support personal and fFEEDBACK readers would not have the headaches that they have today. I am appaulled that a company whose service I have paid for for 13 yrs, for whom I've been beta testing for nearly that long, would pull such and underhanded action. If there were an alternative out there - and believe me Roleplayers have LOOKED for somewhere more compasionate - I'd switch as would thousands of others.
  
  AOL you SNAFUed this one!! Now do you have the brass to own up to your foolishness or are you going to disband something like you did the hosting programs that lost you so many customers several years ago??
  
  One ANGRY Reverand, In reply to: "AOL's Bebo buy was controversial among execs, blog reports"

  February 26, 2009

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