Nowadays I can't shut my fingers up when I find things offensive. I mentioned in my blog on September 10th about the "Big O"ffensive Commercial run by Overstock.com. Well, I think I can safely declare victory, amazingly enough. I haven't heard it once since I e-mailed them that day, and a few weeks have now passed. I'm not saying that I did it, but I may have helped. I think they take comments very seriously, as few people bother to voice opinions. So one person can make a difference.
I didn't do a blog on it yet, but have you seen the AllPosters.com pop-up ads with the two women lying down together in their underwear trying to suck each other's lips off? I usually see it on GeoCities sites up in the right corner of the screen. Anyway, ewwww... I just hate it. I wrote to AllPosters a few weeks ago---about the same time I wrote to Overstock.com. I haven't heard a peep from them yet, but then again I'm not surprised. Here is what I wrote them:
"Kiss" poster ads
I find this poster very offensive, and I'm tired of seeing it on pop-ups. Why are you using it to advertise your website? Why don't you try to appeal to more mainstream audiences? Does your company believe in family values?
And then tonight, I followed a link to find an article on The Arizona Republic about an 11-year-old homeschooled boy who invented an improved device to help law enforcement officials. The ad that was up on the on the page at that time was really offensive, so my email to them says it all:
I was trying to read an article about a homeschooled boy who invented a device to help police officers, however, the article was wrapped around a really offensive MGM Grand ad with a woman's bare behind sticking virtually in my face. I am really disappointed that you run those kind of ads on your website. I guess I mistakenly assumed that this was a family-friendly news site. I was looking forward to letting my children read the article as well, but I can't. Too bad for us.
Posted by 2Flower at September 30, 2003 10:27 PM | TrackBack