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Intercourse, the penguin ([personal profile] quesarah) wrote2006-09-30 10:30 am
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oh noes

There is a post on [livejournal.com profile] lj_biz regarding Six Apart's plans to rollout Sponsored communities and sponsored features "run by companies who are looking for a way to connect and interact with people who are interested in finding out more about their products."

Go here to tell them what you think of the idea.
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[personal profile] ariestess 2006-09-30 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
IT doesn't sound too bad...especially given the edited clarifications put in. It's not like we all have to use the new sponsored stuff necessarily...

[identity profile] biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-10-02 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
I get that, and I agree that opting in doesn't sound too bad. What bothers me is, what happens to some movie community like [livejournal.com profile] scienceofsleep after the movie launches? Is the production company going to maintain it, or will it become just another piece of internet detritis taking up bandwidth? Will I have to ban a company's spambots from commenting to my journal? What is this change going to do to livejournal as a whole?
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[personal profile] ariestess 2006-10-02 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh good point. I hadn't thought of many of those questions...

[identity profile] biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-10-02 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I have a Myspace account and I'm totally cool with adding band pages or other commercial profiles. But Myspace is a completely different type of space/experience than LJ; I'd kind of like it to stay that way. That's my opinion.
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[personal profile] ariestess 2006-10-02 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I completely agree. I had a MySpace for about a day...Got sick of the crap...and the asshat that was spamming/dissing my picture by repeatedly making "whale" comments. So I deleted that acct and haven't gone back since...

[identity profile] biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-10-02 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Jeez, that's messed up. I keep things reined in pretty tightly. I have some good friends whose bands are on Myspace, and some less than close friends whose bands are on their too.
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[personal profile] ariestess 2006-10-02 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, my brother's old band had a MySpace page. And I think his new one should, as well, but I don't know the name of it...
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