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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian K Crawford who wrote (8857)	3/17/1998
From: Yikes	Respond to of 13594

Brian offers: Let me offer a one person survey. I am a long time user of AOL...Prodigy before that. Have an ISP thru work that I never use. All my access these days is thru Cable Modem...I have zero desire to drop AOL. Could you share with us what you use AOL for? I was a consultant for two years helping people with their computers at home. Before then I was also a consultant while in college. I know a lot of people using the Internet in one way or another. From all this I get a feeling of things, albeit not scientific. Imagine how the youths are using the Internet. A high student probably has Web access at school. Then at home, a combination of AOL and other ISP's. Then on to college... guess what, being spoiled by fast ethernet access from their dorm rooms. You should hear their annoyance when they move back to 28.8K. "This is so slow!" They certainly won't stand for network hang-ups and email delays. I don't see AOL capturing the prime Internet users as they graduate from college each year. As I stated in one of my many posts, without this fresh infusion of new customers each year, AOL's membership growth will stagger following the initial surge. 300 million people in the United States. Subtract the babies, the poor, the sick, the professionals who get free Internet access at work, students, how many non-technical users are left that will need AOL? I don't know, but if you believe in AOL's current growth,