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• The whole thing is a bouched attempt to make Yahoo! look more attractive it seems, and the picked the worst thing to try and change about their services. As it is, Yahoo! has screwed over a great many people with this change, and not just the RP community, as the blog shows, but many Yahoo! Groups, other websites who rely on Yahoo! profiles, and even businesses.
  
  The old profiles could have done just as good of a job and were a lot more simplistic to edit. Not to mention for all of Yahoo!'s banter about enhancing "privacy", they force you to put up your full name on the profile, and if you want no one to see it, then you have to edit who your profile shows up to, effectively making it impossible for anyone outside the "connections" to see it, and thus defeating the purpose of the profile in the first place.
  
  And as if that wasn't bad enough, people took advantage of the ability to create up to 5 alternate profiles under a single account for whatever reasons they wish. Now all alternate profiles are either blank with no way to edit them, or they just lead you back to the main ID the profile is under.
  
  So in a nut-shell, Yahoo! has really screwed up big time with this thing, and the masses have expressed their strong disapproval. One can hope that Yahoo! will respond quickly to this and revert to the old profile system before they lose too many users/customers. In reply to: "Yahoo rolls out social Web foundation"

  October 17, 2008

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