More Imposed Changes

First, my AIM blog was moved to Blogger, but the content was lost. So I started this new blog.

Today, I discovered my AIM page was moved to Bebo. I don't think I've ever heard of Bebo before. There are two "About Me" sections with the second one containing my old content, but the formatting was removed. I was able to figure out how to delete the second one by dragging off to the side. They couldn't just supply a [delete] button, could they? It assumed I was female. I was able to fix that. It seems to allow me to correct the month and day of my birthday, and it says it saved it but it didn't changed. Several attempts failed. It insists I was born in 1969 and it won't let me even try to change that.

I looked at 100 pages of "skins" which give a character to the page. Many are feminine. Many are childish. Many are too busy. Many are too dark. None are quite right. I could design my own but it might be too much work. If I could build it by mixing and matching elements from others then I could probably do it. But it's probably not worth the effort.

At the top of the page is a graphical lifeline which seems to be sort of an attempt to be like twitter. The elements are hard to read and overlap for no apparent reason. I can't understand how the designers can be proud of that. Is it a bug that will get fixed?

The ads, in my opinion, are intrusive. But since it's free I guess I really don't have the right to complain.

I created the original AIM page before facebook. Maybe I should just use facebook. I mostly ignore facebook.