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[lizziebelle]

What do folks think about LJ's new sponsored accounts? Is it worth having to look at ads to get paid-member features? On the one hand, online ads can be annoying. On the other, I understand the impetus to sell ad space, since that is what I do for a living. Yahoo does it, MySpace does it, even The Reminder does it. It's what keeps the internet going. Like commercials on television.

I'm thinking I might try it out. I mean, 15 icons! Phone posts! It could be fun. And I certainly can't afford a paid account right now.

I'll mull it over before taking the plunge.

Comments

[leenah.livejournal.com]

i'm of the opinion, why expose myself to more advertising when i don't NEED to? advertising fuels my desire to buy things. i don't need things. i have plenty of things.

as you likely notice, i have a paid account. i decided a couple years back that i was using LJ all the time, so i could stand to pay for it.

before i had *so many freakin' icons!!!* i used to swap them out. that only really works from the office computer, the one at home is on dialup and kinda punky for pictures.

just my thoughts. :)

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, you (as a paid account member) would not see any ads. And one wouldn't see them by looking at my posts on their own friends page. It would only be if you looked at my own page.

[leenah.livejournal.com]

actually,
"i'm of the opinion, why expose myself to more advertising when i don't NEED to? advertising fuels my desire to buy things. i don't need things. i have plenty of things."

was more of me sticking myself in your shoes. granted, they really don't fit, but damn, they're purty!

was reading another post this morning, and yeah, this isn't an arguement for you to NOT do the ads, but he pointed out that w/ all these people accessing formerly 'paid' functions, the servers that are already stressed will be stressed even more. yay, more LJ breakage.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

[cue kneejerk response] we hates adsssss my precioussss we really hatesss them.

Frankly, a journal would have to be SPECTACULAR to keep me reading it if I had to put up with ads to do it. This proliferation of advertising really upsets me - can't there be SOME places that stay a fine and private place?...

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

It's my understanding that if you read a sponsored journal on your own friends page, you won't see the ads. If you have a paid account, you won't *ever* see the ads. Would that make a difference? I'm curious. :)

[anghara.livejournal.com]

I understand that as a paid-account holder I won't see the ades. But I haven't been a paid account holder for very long, and before that I had a free account, and if this had happened back at that time I would have been faced with a stark choice and that would be to either cough up the paid account subscription or bail. WHen I DID upgrade, I did it by choice; this second alternative would have felt awfully like blackmail, and I find myself rubbed entirely the wrong way by the principle of the thing.

I don't like advertising being thrust into my space.There's too much of it around anyway. I really don't want any MORE mooted.

[perseph12.livejournal.com]

I have been contemplating getting a sponsored account, too. I just can't afford the "indulgence" of paid LJ, and since so many of my friends have paid accounts, they won't have to see the ads. I wouldn't mind seeing them on your page if you gave it a try...

[tehuti.livejournal.com]

Lisa and I made the choice to get paid accounts, so this decision won't affect us. At only $25 bucks a year, that's easily within our budget. Just don't eat out once, for each of us, and it's covered. :-)