Basic accounts

You can no longer create basic accounts [ie. free accounts with limited functions without advertising] on LiveJournal.

I've acquired a kind of learned helplessness over LiveJournal doing stupid things. I can't make the company act sensibly. All I can realistically do is choose to take my business elsewhere and much as I think they are bad at communicating with their customers, I don't think they're so bad that I want to boycott them [they've not say done anything on the scale of Nestle + third world mothers + baby milk or the car company making cars with engines in the boot 'cos it was cheaper to pay compensation to those injured as a result of the increased accident risk than to design cars with engines in the front] etc.

I continue to have a paid account as my self interest in not seeing adverts is bigger than my desire to not give money to a crap company. I also think that paying money is a reasonably fair trade off for not seeing adverts and if more people were prepared to pay for services there'd be less 'need' for companies to make money via advertising.

Basic accounts

You can no longer create basic accounts [ie. free accounts with limited functions without advertising] on LiveJournal.

I've acquired a kind of learned helplessness over LiveJournal doing stupid things. I can't make the company act sensibly. All I can realistically do is choose to take my business elsewhere and much as I think they are bad at communicating with their customers, I don't think they're so bad that I want to boycott them [they've not say done anything on the scale of Nestle + third world mothers + baby milk or the car company making cars with engines in the boot 'cos it was cheaper to pay compensation to those injured as a result of the increased accident risk than to design cars with engines in the front] etc.

I continue to have a paid account as my self interest in not seeing adverts is bigger than my desire to not give money to a crap company. I also think that paying money is a reasonably fair trade off for not seeing adverts and if more people were prepared to pay for services there'd be less 'need' for companies to make money via advertising.