Last looks at Yahoo Adult Profiles …
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Links in this post are NSW … but I can’t resist poking around a little to see just what Yahoo is going to be deleting when they blow away all the Adult Profile pictures.
You see, there is no actual site for Yahoo adult profiles, and they don’t show up in search engines. They’re just … out there. You can stumble across adult profiles if you go play around with the Yahoo Member Directory advanced search.Type in a gender, select an age range, pick a state and choose “Married but Looking” from the dropdown list … you’ll find adult profiles soon enough. I did. (Those links are below.)
Funny that Yahoo is deleting all of the so-called “adult” images … a lot of people who have adult profiles don’t have photos, or have pictures of sunsets, or their pets, or whatever. But Yahoo is NOT going to go through hundreds of thousands or even millions of profiles, one by one, and censor. Nope. If they’re going to get rid of “mature” content, they pretty much have to throw it all out.
NeverMIND that the text on some of these profiles is as risque as the photos, or more so.And Yahoo doesn’t discourage *that* at all, yet … I mean, as I said, they let you categorize yourself as “Married But Looking.”
Like Rachel, here. Or Debi. For starters. Damn. Girls just wanna have fun, right? Anyone oppose those photos?
Update: It’s now April 10 and Yahoo has apparently not yet taken down adult profile photos or eliminated adult profiles. (Rachel and Debi are still, uhhhh, available.) Nor has Yahoo said if they changed their minds. They have issued a clarification of their original clarification of the original e-mail to members. The corporate communications skills on display here are just awesome, eh?
And … April 11. They did it. Rachel’s photo is gone, Debi’s is now PG. No more Yahoo adult profiles.
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jss @ April 2, 2008
Love the photos! No, there’s nothing wrong with that. I will, however recommend them to all my family members, who are mostly religious fanatics. It would be good to have them see some other people who will burn in hell besides myself.
And I’m sure that, like most sex, it’s gonna be too much effort to get to see them now, and unreliable and startling deceptively dissapointing when you do!
I also recommend SciConnect for entertaing pictures of real geeky scientists, that, blissfully, are NOT nekkid.
so jeffrey,
i guess you’re happy about all this? i think it’s a load of crap. i’m an adult male , and i happen to like looking at beautiful naked women. go to the barney, mr. rogers .com sites, just make sure old man rogers isn’t changing his sweater, that may be a little too close to pornography. i feel sorry for people like you, don’t have nothing do but mind someone elses business. i best go before i say something that will offend your virgin ears.
KMA,
mike
Mike: Nope, wasn’t happy … I think we had this conversation on another post, though. I don’t think my post sounded happy … I was just chronicling the “cleansing” of Yahoo.
Yahoo has failed, bigtime, at social networking, for a lot of reasons.