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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. :)

[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?...

[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. :-)