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I am addicted to you. I mean really addicted. I’m constantly searching the web for great new content to submit to you.

With that said, please get rid of the “share” function within your site (or send to, or shout). It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s that the function has become utterly worthless. The users that have spent a LOT of time and effort building their profiles (and bettering YOUR SITE) have large networks of friends built up (as you asked us to do). So what do we get for all this time and effort? A penalization. If we “share” our content, it might as well be the death knell for it.

The funny part is, we are the people that are first to market with the best content. Not because we’re lucky or happen upon it, but because you’ve taught us to be. Because in the past, being first to market had it’s benefits. Now, the benefit goes to the guy that hasn’t used the site before.

So, regardless if you’re selling, buying, trying, or dying- please give us at least a LITTLE credit for spending the amount of time that we do on your sites.

Thank you.

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I hate this site. Not only does About.com NEVER have the information you’re looking for, they rank high enough on search engine’s to justify their existence. And that is ONLY because they’ve been around for so long. About.com has many, many reasons for me, you, your grandmother, or Barack to despise them. Here are a few.

• You can never find any real information. Typically you search for something, click whatever links looks the most appropriate, and get the information you were after. With About, you’ve entered a black hole you’re unlikely to escape from.
• Holy Pop-ups Batman?!? Really? About.com, do you genuinely think people are going to keep coming back if EVERY new page they open pops up a new POS ad?
• Even if you blindly stumble upon the information you’re after, it’s dated and unreliable. Perfect example:

  

I don’t know you Bill Lamb, and I don’t want to. Aside from the fact that I don’t give a crap about the Top 10 Prom Songs, I don’t trust your opinion of them. Even if this is a factual list, I don’t trust your research abilities. I don’t like your ass face either. You’re ugly, look stupid, and have no gauge of what today’s youth are after. Yet you’re in charge of pop music. Couldn’t About.com at least pretend to be trying and put some blond 20-something’s photo on the screen to keep people around for more than a quarter-second?

Aside from the fact that Billy has as much credibility as a cancerous yak, look at the advertising placement on this page. Not that you could miss it. Click ads make no sense anymore. I work for a small business, and conversions on these things are low and just getting lower.

About.com, you represent all that is evil and wrong on the web.

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Or at least I feel like it. I’m beaming with joy and have a feeling I’ll be up all night. I just bought a 15″ Macbook Pro. I’ve owned it less than an hour and am already in love…

I haven’t installed anything on this beauty yet, but as soon as I do I’ll start posting combatively.

Yo necessito:

Office
Photoshop
Multi-platform chat application
Transfer files
Learn this thing
Sleep with it under pillow

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You can only push so hard. Stop and smell the flowers.

Love,
Me

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