Admit it. You still have an AOL account

[Tuesday Afternoon]

and use it daily.

[auntAgonist]

1. I can honestly say i NEVER had one :)

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. and I believe you

really I do. Hey Kesha :hi:

[sarge43]

3. Never had one either

After that number played on the Navy guy, I wouldn't give the weasels the time of day.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. AOL was my first ISP, and...

...I had an account for about two weeks.

My first PC was a Sony, which I bought from Circuit City. AOL was in the bundled software. I immediately signed up for a Pacific Bell account, but you had to make an appointment, and I waited too damn long to wait any more, so I signed up with AOL...I wanted an Internet connection the minute I got that damned computer out of the box.

Never sent or received a single email. Shut it down after two weeks, as soon as Pac Bell hooked me up. Got a lot of "We want you back" mailings. Then they gave up. Or stopped wanting me back. Not sure which.

:rofl:

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Never had one

Considering I didn't get my own computer until about 1999 or so.

[kimi]

6. Well, AOL has tried to tell me that I did

I never remember signing up, but they sure did their darnedest to convince me. I eventually had to pay the bas&*^ds off just to get them off my back. I hate those m^&*%$rf&*^%$s.

[ColesCountyDem]

7. Never did. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

8. Long gone.

[Skip Intro]

9. never

[qnr]

10. Never had one, and I've been online since '81. n/t

[femmocrat]

11. Never had one.

My first email account was with our local provider (now long gone!).

[quakerboy]

12. Not even a little

I believe my parents may have had one back in 92 or so. Even they, who never give anything up, gave that up.

[Urban Prairie]

13. Nope

I had MSN for dialup and certainly would not have signed up for AOL, after all I read about their dirty tactics to try to keep their customer accounts open, such as continuing to bill customers for months, even after they had closed their accounts with verbal, email, or written acknowledgement from AOL. Getting deluged with AOL CDs..some being in METAL containers during the late 90s-early 00s in the mail and in magazines pissed me off as well. Tremendous amount of unnecessary landfill-bound waste.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Nuh uh.

I ditched AOHell in the late '90s. But my dad used it until just a few years ago, and when I finally talked him into dumping it, getting its evil tentacles out of all the corners of his computer was a real chore.

[Odin2005]

15. I never had nor ever will have an AOL account.

[Quantess]

16. No. I convinced my boyfriend, whom was living with at the time, to switch.

It was an AOL editorial about how women ideally should have their children while they are teenagers, or by their 20s at the latest.

And the connection was really slow.

[madinmaryland]

17. No AOL, but I did have a prodigy account for a year or so. Hadn't quite

figured out the need for teh internets in 94. Amazing what happened in just a couple of years.

[WCGreen]

18. I had one and got kicked off for attacking ass hats in the Rush Limbaugh

room or what ever it was that they had...

Quit in 1995 and went with MSN...

[sakabatou]

19. Nope. Never used it.

[Skittles]

20. fuck no

[Staph]

21. I don't have one.....

but my dad did. After he passed away ten years ago, I became the keeper of the AOL account, as Mom refuses to learn anything about computers.

So, yeah, I check AOL daily. But not for me! It's not my fault!

[KamaAina]

22. No I do not which you cannot prove so stop saying that!

:P

Mom and Republican Stepdad, on the other hand...

[BlueIris]

23. Yes, I do.

Used it to register for this site, in fact.

[Inspired]

24. That is my email account. Who cares? I'm not paying for it.

[Orrex]

25. I had one for a while when I was on dial-up

When I decided to disconnect, I knew that they'd resist, so I came up with what I thought was a fool-proof reason: I told them that my computer had crashed, and I wouldn't be getting another one.

No dice. They still fought to convince me that I needed to maintain the service, in case I were to get another computer at some point.

This went back and forth for about ten minutes, with the person offering a series of free 90-day extensions to the service that I didn't want. He said "if you still want to cancel the service, just call back before July 14." When I pointed out that the current phone call was my formal request to terminate service, he said that I could call back by July 14th to confirm.

We went round and round for another five minutes or so, until I demanded to speak with his supervisor, and I was told that the supervisor was unavailable.

Finally, I said "this phone call is going to end with you telling me that my service is terminated, effective immediately."


This was about six months before AOL finally got a big slap for its aggressive policies.


Honestly, it's easier to get out of an IKEA through the front door than to escape AOL's clutches.

[JonLP24]

26. No.

I wonder though. Does anyone still receive those so many free hours of AOL discs for free? You know how they kept going up and up in free hours? I haven't received one in years.

[Orsino]

27. Not since the last century, I think.

I kept one for a few years after I got onto the real Internets.

[Frank Cannon]

28. I quit in 1996 and it was like trying to leave Scientology

I seem to remember them calling me about every three days. It was nuts.

[Richardo]

31. I may still have an account, who knows? Those bastards billed to my card two months after I quit.

...in 1998 or so. I had to call them on it several times. They finally knocked it off and reversed the charges.

You're absolutely right. Lapsed Scientologists have it easy in comparison.

[vixengrl]

29. I have a screen name under my husband's account--

I had to argue with "Victor" from customer service that having a screen name under my spouse's account was a perfectly good reason to ditch my account--for some reason "I just don't need it" wasn't good enough without getting into my business. He relented when he saw the silliness of a two-account household.

But yes--my aol e-mail is my main mailbox. Is that a problem?

[blueamy66]

30. Yep, but only because

my fiance likes AOL and he's not real computer literate.

It's only $10 a month....