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    Yekhefah
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    Dear MySpace:

    I understand that you have to pay the bills, and that must be difficult considering the enormous size and popularity of MySpace. I understand that advertising revenue is important, and allows MySpace to remain a free service. I do not begrudge you the advertisements I see on the website.

    However, whose brilliant idea was it to have these advertisements generate speech and loud, jarring noises? A couple of weeks ago, I had scrolled past the ad, and I was sitting quietly in a darkened apartment late at night by myself, missing my boyfriend and thinking about how long it would be until he came home. And suddenly, a strange male voice appeared from nowhere and announced, "I'm counting down the minutes until I can be with you again!"

    It was creepy. It was really, really creepy. Talking banner ads are a new one on me, and it took me some time to realize where the voice was coming from. My heart rate didn't slow down until sometime after that. It's a very good thing my heart is healthy, because there's nothing to jolt it into overdrive like a strange male voice in my dark apartment announcing the very thing I'm thinking about.

    And today, you have an advertisement for some shitty horror movie. This ad generates a very shrill, piercing, startling noise. I find this highly unpleasant. If I wanted to be startled by shrill, unwelcome noises, I would go see the movie. Please, preserve the integrity of the horror genre by restricting those thrills to those who have paid for them.

    I understand the place that advertisements have on the internet. But in my opinion, internet ads should be seen and not heard. Please, for the love of G-d, shoot the talking-ad guy and tell those advertisements to shut the fuck up.

    Thank you.

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    Glamazon
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    I just turn the sound off on my laptop. If there's something I want to listen to, I can easily turn it back on.

    The talking smileys is what got on my nerves the most.

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    I agree...I hate them too!! Really annoying to say the least...we should all copy this and send it to Tom!
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    Actually, Tom doesn't own MySpace anymore. He sold it to Rupert Murdoch last year. Technically, everything you post on MySpace is the property of FOX.

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    Default Re: Sound on MySpace Advertisements

    I seem to always get the "HELLO!!" ad alot when I have my speakers on yet when I have them turned off I get none of them. Weird.

    Regardless, I detest those banners. I turn my sound off until I need to turn the sound back on again due to them and just for the fact that I don't necessarily need the sound on all the time anyway.


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    Well I remember the first ever talking porn add... "I've got the keys to the oh so hottest site on the web" or "let me take you to the hottest raunchiest porn site"..... in a faux sexy female voice even.

    The talking smiley things are bad, still the porn thing... gah.
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    I despise those talking smileys. And Yek, I know the exact one you're talking about. Late at nite, dark, speakers on pretty low...and all of a sudden I heard that little voice and I was freaked out! It took me a second to realize what the hell was going on. I felt pretty stupid afterwards, but it totally caught me by surprise!






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    Bah! I had one of those stupid "OH MY GOD! NO WAY!" smiley ads freak me out in the middle of last night. I hate those bloody things.
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    Default Re: Sound on MySpace Advertisements

    UGH! I hate those talking ads!

    I got that one with the scream last week and my dog was going crazy which made it worse. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from for a second and it freaked me out!

    So yeah, I keep the sound down too. Don't they realize that we simply turn the sound off so they are not effective?

    annoying and invasive.

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    I hate those damn things!! I bet when someone with a heart condition dies from the shock of hearing "OMG NO WAAAAYYYY!!" when they unknowingly have their speakers turned all the way up, a lawsuit will follow and then talking smiley ads will be no more. I hate to think it will have to come to that, but I imagine that's what it's going to take.
    I too, was startled into paranoia and cold sweats upon hearing "HELLOooO" when I was all alone in my bedroom one night. I lived in a bad neighborhood and grabbed a hammer off my shelf to inspect the balcony. It took me a while to figure out where it was coming from.

    FUCK YOU, MYSPACE!! I shouldn't have to leave my sound off because of you.

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    Default Re: Sound on MySpace Advertisements

    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    Dear MySpace:
    And suddenly, a strange male voice appeared from nowhere and announced, "I'm counting down the minutes until I can be with you again!"
    OMG. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who got this. It happened to me like 10 times and I couldn't figure out why. And yes it was creepy, super super creepy!

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