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hey AIM . just wanted to let you know that i’m officially never using AOL anything again, including you. we had a good run of it. we started hanging out back in high school, when i was trying that whole internet thing for the first time. you were pretty handy for chatting with my friends. i was a real believer in you. and then you started doing all kinds of crazy stuff. your (inter)face just got remarkably ugly. you started whoring yourself out for ads everywhere, particularly the really f’ing annoying ones where i would accidentally roll over the ad and be greeted by loud, obnoxious noises that made me fear for my life. even so, i pushed on, especially since all my friends were hanging out with you too.

and then you started doing that annoying shit where every damn time i upgraded you (why were you always needing upgrades, by the way?) you changed all of my preferences and launched that STUPID AIM Today page just to get your idiotic portal in front of my face. very frustrating. maybe that shit works on other people, but it just made me pissed. actually i started hating everything about you. i’d post an image to point out some of your pains in the ass, but i already uninstalled your shit and there’s no way in hell i’m bringing you back.

then came that whole google talk thing. clean and simple. no extra fluff that i didn’t need. NOT ugly. NOT a pain in the ass. but all my friends were still chilling with you, so i used both. then i started into the whole working world, suddenly i was plugging and unplugging my laptop a lot and, lo and behold, your stupid application would lock up my computer all the time.

now? most people that i want to talk to are on google talk anyway. so, as marty schottenheimer once told a misbehaving great player: “i can’t cut you now, because i need you. but the moment i don’t need you, i will cut you.” and so it is today that i vow to never use a piece of software from AOL ever again. a company that doesn’t respect my saved preferences really doesn’t deserve pixels on my screen. goodbye and good luck.

maybe we’ll see each other again when i’m using meebo some time.