Yahoo Sucks

If you haven’t read the post before this one… well, you’ll still probably understand this one since I tend to repeat myself a lot but it’ll make even ‘more’ sense if you read the prior post- just a theory but still, you never know.

Alright, in a better mood now. A few hours ago… not so much but that was before I’d found all these shiny new buttons to play with. [More on that later.]

My Yahoo account is still deleted. It’s looking less and less like I got hacked and more and more like they just deleted me without any notice or warning whatsoever. I’ve lost a lot of important information, contacts, messages, and whatever else you can imagine that might tick me off. I’ve contacted them but aside from a message saying they received my complaint… I’ve yet to hear anything.

I’ve signed up for a Google account, something I’ve never done before and I’m still not sure if I like it or not. I guess it’s one of those things that will just have to grow on me or something but I’d really started to like the set up of the new yahoo.

Getting my chat back was the worst part. See, about a year ago I abandoned Windows Live Messenger because it just had too many bugs and instant messenger is my big form of communication with family, friends, and everyone who frequents my community website. During that time I swapped everyone over to a new yahoo account, one with a more professional name for when I sent out business emails. Through YMessenger I could keep in touch with everyone! It was great.

Then this crap happened.

It took me a few hours to figure out how I was going to do it but I’ve managed to keep all my contacts under one email. First I signed up for Gmail (feeby123atgmaildotcom if you’re interested) and then I went to the Windows Live website, because I absolutely refuse to sign up for another Yahoo ID after this happened. I signed up for a .net passport which allows me to sign in to any Windows service without actually getting ‘another’ email or username. This allows me to sign into Windows Live Messenger with my Gmail account.

Now, remember I said I totally gave up on WLM earlier? I still have. Like the new YMessenger it’s turned into a beautiful program over the past two or three years but WLM is buggy as hell and no good for someone like me who’s constantly massaging multiple people several of which are in different accounts (like aol, yahoo, etc., not that WLM doesn’t handle those, it does, it just doesn’t always handle them well) which is why I downloaded Pidgin.

Pidgin is a multi-messenger sort of thing, the best I’ve come across so far and it looks nice. Back to everything else though…

So, now through my Gmail which is bounced through MSN, I can chat with my Yahoo people. Ridiculous, isn’t it? Either way, despite how terribly long it took me to work this out and re-add over thirty people back to my messenger list, and about fifty to my email list, and mourn the loss of about fifteen (two of which are family)… I’m happy with the set up now.

I still don’t really like the Gmail setup but I think that’s because I’m not used to it but it’s safer and so far… according to my research they have a lot less of the problems I’ve had with Yahoo. My Hubby looked into a few things and it seems this ‘accidental’ deletion is happening to a lot of people more and more often. I know for a fact I never violated my account, it was fairly new still, not even hitting the one year mark yet, and I checked it almost every day. There was no reason for what happened.

I’ve uninstalled Yahoo messenger and now that I won’t be logging on to my email on their homepage I also won’t be reading the news through their site. Because I won’t read the news on the homepage I won’t search and rate through the news (out of sight, out of mind). Because I no longer message with them I will no longer use their software which means I will no longer read their software blog.

What am I getting at?

Because they’ve screwed me over on one of their services they’ve lost me for all their services. That’s almost 100 web hits down the drain and while I’m only one person in the billions that still use Yahoo for one thing or another… a loss is still a loss. From a website manager’s stand point, every loss is a decline in traffic and if you lose five people that’s five people using other services who will in turn each tell five other people about the services they like and encourage them to join. Each of those twenty-five will pass the word along.

I know, it’s a long, long, probably pointless circle, but focusing on how I’m not doing Yahoo a favor makes me feel better about this whole situation.

If you use chat please message me sometime. You can add me on Yahoo, Windows Live, and AOL as a Windows Live user even though it’s not a WL email. You can also reach me through GoogleTalk and oddly enough Myspace IM (though you’ll have to find me first).

This doesn’t deserve a title…

Warning of my language as this post continues.

My main email was hacked. I don’t want to go into details right now because my whole good mood has gone down the drain but for those you who have me on messenger- please refer to my old account (type akchculaif backwards for yahoo, same goes for msn those it’s @yahoo). For those of you who need to email me please send any and all mail to written-whisper at peacemail dot com.

I can’t believe how impossibly peeved I am. It wouldn’t matter so much if my email wasn’t connected to all the websites I manage as well as my writing queries… it wouldn’t matter so much if there was a possibility that yahoo didn’t just ‘accidently’ delete my damn account… it wouldn’t matter so much if I couldn’t log into messenger and talk to my family.

It wouldn’t matter so damn much if it hadn’t happened right after I woke up.

It wouldn’t matter so much if it was something more important- I really shouldn’t be so upset over something as simple as an email but come on! I don’t talk on the phone, I don’t live near anyone! This is my communication here!

And finally- I wouldn’t be so damn ticked off if… never mind. I’m done.

Scanning my laptop. Resetting all my passwords to something I’m probably gonna forget and be ticked off about later.

I’ll upload my other, better mood posts, when I’m not so ticked off. In the mean time I’d love if someone would just IM me and chat for awhile.

[Edit: Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! Damnit! DAMNIT! *wants to mentally pound the fricking keyboard* Now it won't allow me upload my posts. *cries in frustration because I have nothing else to do and because... damnit.*]

[Second edit: Alright, it was just my password that was bad. *blares music intensly loud* because... because my Hubby rather play computer games than... oh, never mind. I think I'm going to go to sleep or scribble through a phone book until my pen comes out the other side.]

[Third edit: Calmer now. Still ticked. Still stuck inside my head alone and frustrated as hell about it. I'm not spell checking this post and I warn you now if one single person sends me a single comment correcting my spelling on it... it better darn well be anonymouse or I'm going to forward you my unchecked spam folders from my other functioning email addresses. Got it?]

Feeling Blah

I am still alive everyone and still reading blogs even if I haven’t been commenting. Yesterday I went to the doctor to get checked out for both my sinus infection (I thought it was the flu, lol) and my ovarian cyst (see one of the car accident updates if you don’t know what I’m talking about). They had me run over to the big hospital to get some ASAP blood work done to check my white blood cell count and make sure I wasn’t falling drastically anemic (blood test came ba good as far as both go).

The blood test went as far as to prove it wasn’t secretly my apendics, we were worried it’d escaped notice in the CAT scan somehow. So, now I’m sitting here waiting for the people to call me so we can schedule an ultrasound to see if maybe the cyst never properly ruptured, new ones have formed, or if it’s something else all together. Yay for me.

Anyways, I’m still around and I’m feeling pretty good but the next few days I might be a bit antisocial as far as comments, email, and chat go. I’m not really even into answering my phone right now because I have a few things on my mind that may or may not be related to all this jazz.

PS, I didn’t spell check this and I don’t care right now. :)