"On November 11th, this page will be replaced by the new Yahoo! home page."
 
What if I like what I have?
 
I've been bounced around on the upgrades, and played with them, and usually come back to the link saying, "Make Yahoo your home page."
 
That's where I can see my headline news, my email, my headline entertainment news, the local weather etc......right where I'm used to seeing it.
 
When does being on the Internet become what you want versus what you get?
 
I'll tell you.....it's when you ignore the updates and they tell you they are going to do it anyway, whether you like it or not.
 
Oh well...I guess I don't own the internet.  I just use it.
 
But I'm way tired of the pop-up messages that tell me I have updates I need to attend to, and when I don't update, they do it anyway.
 
And then sometimes I am in a hurry to open up or shut down and the computer is doing a scan I didn't ask for.  (If I don't feel like it, I cancel for "later.")
 
At least when I shut down, I get the option of shutting down without updates--some of the time.
 
Ok, I want upgrades.  But let me choose when and what.
 
What kind of home page will I see on November 11th?
 
I'll look for "Make Yahoo your home page" if I can find it--especially if my new page looks hinky.
 
I have other  home pages that I don't use, and I guess that's why it takes me so long to get on and off line line.
 
Think they are trying to tell me something?
 
I need to upgrade?
 
But can't something somewhere stay the same for longer than this?
 


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  • gingersoul said on Oct 29, 2009....
    Nothing does, my friend....not even internet....:-)
  • Hegemone said on Oct 29, 2009....
    Oh but that's the style of the internet, always changing, always trying to cram more stuff into one place.  That's why I stopped using some sites, because they're just too much for my poor computer, or poor slow internet, to even bother with.  Hopefully you do find that 'make Yahoo my homepage' link.
  • wombat said on Oct 30, 2009....
    gingersoul:  I guess not.  I also guess this was a stupid post, but it irritates the crap out of me to be told what I'm going to do!
     
    Hegemone:  I never could get my last "new" yahoo home page to work like I wanted.  I clicked on something and lost my local weather, and other stuff got loaded here and there that I couldn't get moved down or deleted.  I got tired of messing with it, and then saw when I looked up something, that in the upper right corner it said "Make Yahoo your home page."  Bingo!  I no longer had to look at that messy page, then go back.
  • queenparanoia said on Nov 01, 2009....
    maybe you need to upgrade your computer or soemthing...
  • wombat said on Nov 02, 2009....

    Queen:  Bingo!  I had forgotten the very thing I went through the last time they messed with my homepage-----just scroll way, way down to the bottom of the page and there is a bunch of tiny printed options.  One of them is "classic yahoo mail" or something like that.  Took me right back to my old standby, familiar page where everything is where I want it!

    It still says they are going to upgrade to the new yahoo on November 11th....but if I still have this option, they can keep their upgrades!

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