Geocities Web Pages

Denise Sawicki | December 16, 2004
I'm wondering if I can do a quick survey. I'm wondering if having a free Geocities web page is some kind of a social stigma or something - if maybe a lot of people see that my bf's band's web page address is at Geocities and won't visit it for that reason. (I'm mentioning it in tons of places that are actually relevant to the Fargo music scene but nobody ever visits). So many web sites have pop-up ads that I guess I just thought it was a minor annoyance that is part of life, I never saw it as being a big deal. Seeing that the web page is not really for me I felt odd about paying $100 a year or whatever just to have my own domain name and no pop-up ads. I know as an American I am in the minority here for being frugal, and it probably seems pretty stupid to not shell out the cash for this but to me it seems kind of dumb *to* pay for it... Certainly if they got to the point where they were somewhat popular around here I would pay for a better web page but I thought this was OK for now. Maybe I'm wrong and maybe it's worse publicitiy than having no web page at all...

Anna Gregoline | December 16, 2004
I hate to say it, but oftentimes if I see that a link is geocities, I won't go to it. The pop-ups and spyware that bombard me aren't worth it to me.

Denise Sawicki | December 16, 2004
By spyware you mean tracking cookies maybe, or can you get something more sinister just from visitng? I ask because I'm ignorant of these things:( Anyway, thanks for the reply.

Anna Gregoline | December 16, 2004
I just mean the junk that comes up - there's also that annoying ad that's stuck in the corner of geocities sites, if I remember right.

Websites aren't too expensive these days, and there are a lot of other free sites out there that don't have so many ads. Maybe your boyfriend's band could use a modified blog or something like that?

Denise Sawicki | December 16, 2004
I'm super slow at making any purchases I'm not familiar with but I guess I'll look into it, thanks... (any other comments are welcome too of course)

Scott Hardie | December 19, 2004
Like Anna, I don't go to Geocities sites because of all the junk (same goes for Angelfire, Tripod, Fortunecity, etc). My web browser is actually set up to block those sites, so if I click through to one by accident, it comes up as a blank screen. I had to disable that feature to look at your site in the first place, Denise. :-(

But then again, I work in the industry and Anna spents a great deal of time online herself, so we're probably biased. There wouldn't be all those thousands of Geocities users if most people cared about the junk.

My invitation to host friends' web sites for free is still open, if you wouldn't mind having an address like cedars.celebritygoogame.com.

Denise Sawicki | December 21, 2004
I thought you probably wouldn't want 10 megs of music files on your domain. Anyway if you think geocities is annoying in the ad department check out, for instance, something like ivillage.com.

I spend a ton of time online myself and can't imagine how someone could spend a lot of time online without ever coming across a page with pop-up ads... They're everywhere... and I guess it doesn't bother me that much...

Scott Horowitz | December 21, 2004
I've actually stopped using IE, and I get far less popups than I did with that program. The only page that actually still gives me popups is espn.com. The other thing I like about Firefox is that there is a plugin called "adblock" which allows you to block image, java, and flash advertisements.

Scott Hardie | December 24, 2004
I don't mind the megs, Denise. I have 500 megs with my account and I'm using about 15 of them.