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[easilyirritable]

Our goal for sponsored communities is to give businesses an opportunity to connect with their customers, give you special deals -- free stuff! -- and information. More and more companies are moving to blogging as a form of communication -- people are starting to understand that there's a huge potential for conversation, and they want to reach out

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[noss]

Ugh, puke.

I could accept it if they just said, "Look, here's the bottom line-we need to do this, it's a financial necessity."

But instead they're being complete assholes, having the insulting audacity to assume we're mindless automatons who'll actually be grateful for the opportunity to PAY to be assaulted by this sleezy corporate invasion, and th3e saddest thing is they actually believe we'll buy into their pathetic spin, their portrayal of themselves as the hip outsiders flaunting convention.

[thursby]

I don't mind the thought of sponsored communities, because, well, I'll never ever look at them and so it won't affect me in any way.

What DOES bother me is if you go to the one sponsored community they have, its filled with fake journals created specifically to pimp out that movie.

Which I see is one step away from me having like Tom Hanks on my interest list, and then having fake journalers leaving comments on my page whenever a new tom hanks movie comes out, telling me its the greatest movie ever and that I should see it now.

Just bad news all around.

[themachinestops]

Yes, this is exactly what bothers me about it, that there will be fake people friending me like there is on MySpace (which I don't use) and anonymous ads dropped on my journal and it's like Grand Central Station in what is supposed to be my private place on the Interweb and all of a sudden Livejournal = Paranoia City.

We all should have known this would happen when Livejournal was bought out by a conglomerate. So glad I no longer pay any money to this site.

[erinin3d]

I'm annoyed by how vague this is, is it explained in detail what the changes will look like somewhere?

xox

[iheartlibraries]

wow, it took 5 comments in that entry for someone to say, "so, it's turning into myspace?"

i'm already a little freaked out by seeing ads on people's pages. i'm guessing this isn't like what blogspot offers, which is, you get money everytime someone clicks on an ad on your blog.