hmmmmmm

[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

[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.