Yahoo Sucks
April 29th, 2009
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).
remember, on a deeper level, we LET these things frustrate and annoy us. but i sure do know what you mean. i’m on wlm now, but don’t use it all that much. good luck with gmail: i use this, too, and i sometimes let myself be frustrated with it, too, lol, but not nearly as much as with yahoo, it seems. ;-)
Yow! I have Yahoo email, although I also have a gmail account as well; but so far so good with Yahoo. Good luck with your new set up.
I hope you are feeling better.
@ J1M:
I know I shouldn’t ‘let’ it get to me but so much stuff just up and lost like that. I thing everything is bound to frustrate us from time to time, google, yahoo, other random email services. It’s just the universes way of reminding us from time to time that nothing’s perfect and so we shouldn’t try to be. :)
@ LisaB:
Feeling much better now, bit of a headache but ah, everything can’t be perfect. ;) If you’re using Yahoo I suggest you back up a copy of all your contacts so you don’t ever have to go through what I’ve gone through.
oh stuff like that is SOOO annoying. My hubby and i had emails for a long time that were through yahoo and about a year ago they just were dumped, they SAID they tried to contact us but I call baloney cause that was the only email I had at the time!
But, anyway, glad you got up and running. You should play with google chat some because I know my husband has set it up so he can chat with people on other services.
@ Jessie
Yeah, apparently Yahoo has been doing this a whole lot more often than I expected. I’m getting more used to the Google, it’s not so bad now that I know how to work it. :) I am using Google to chat, I have Google Talk and Windows Live all set up through this one program. Do you use chat?
hmm well now isn’t that interesting. Mind you I never have used Yahoo before. I use MSN to chat with friends and family oh and facebook. You are right though; it only takes one person to spread the news about bad service. If you tell one person and they go and tell another 2 people and so one then it comes down to a whole lot of people dropping service or they end up paranoid. look I’m rambling again it must be close to bedtime lol.
@ Quill:
Lol, too true. Yahoo has it’s good points, I’ll give them that, but a lot of what they do, how their support works, and how they handle other things… it’s just not worth my time to deal with them and I’m making sure everyone knows about it.
Lol, ramble away. :)