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To: hdl who wrote (542)	5/21/2012 11:03:18 AM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 3790

That's a good point about AOL. I never subscribed to AOL but had friends that did. When visiting friends I used their AOL accounts to see what it was like. My reaction was AOL isn't providing anything that isn't available on the internet for free somewhere else. I think the problem with the AOL social thing was all your friends also had to have accounts and most didn't. With FB, seems like everybody has an account whereas AOL never grew to hundreds of millions of subscribers, I think, because they never gave it away for free in the beginning. Granted for FB to be successful with subscribers, they are going to have to offer more than they do now. Until there was FB, there were tons of friends from college I hadn't seen or talked to in years...suddenly it was EZ to keep up with them and their families. AOL was never that easy. AOL had all the right ideas but failed in the execution IMO. AOL was just too dumbed down for me and I knew they would fail when people realized that AOL offers nothing that the internet doesn't already provide....I just didn't know when...and it took a 5 to 7 years longer than I ever thought it would take.