MY BLOG, MY THOUGHTS, AOL'S ADS

Last week AOL decided to add ads to all of its Hometown Journals and homepages.  All of the creatively designed webpages are now littered with spam.  Inspiration journals, personal accounts of hardship and tragedy, homeschooling blogs, baby's first year, cat and dog blogs... none were exempt from the tacky invasion.  I complained to HelpLive to get the spam removed but it seems that AOL's spam guard is set up to protect us from all spam... except for AOL's spam.   I guess they want to be the only spammers in the neighborhood.  Heck, journal guidelines even state that we cannot advertise on our journals if it does not pertain to AOL journals.  I've been trying to figure out where Bank of America and Quiznos fit in to the journaling community.  That AOL ad made sence.  It was the AOL Spam edition.

So anyhow, until AOL either removes the ads, or offers an acceptable solution for this issue, this journal will display its new and inproved title (anti-spam edition, of course!)