Reasons to Love AOL Broadband DSL
To begin with, let me state that America Online and I are a very unlikely couple. I tend to not fit in well with your typical “mainstream” and hip products and services, in fact I’m quite the laggard when it comes to adapting to the latest craze of any genre. But I’ve had AOL ever since I caught on to the Internet buzz and I have no plans to change that . There are many great features about America Online and to make it easy I will illustrate each reason to love AOL broadband DSL, or at least some of them, below, numerically.
1) Email Management- The entire email application portion of the convenient AOL broadband DSL is extremely convenient and easy to use. Granted, it is basic and I do agree that people handling large amounts of business correspondences would be better suited with Outlook. But if you do a lot of in and out emailing with friends, it is great. For one, the program allows you to gather 1000 emails in y our box before they start bouncing back to the sender. And the new emails stay in your box for a month before the system deletes them. So if you go out of town let’s say, or maybe, like in my case, your internet gets shut off because you didn’t pay your bill for a little while, you don’t have to worry about your mail getting lost. The never read email is in bold lettering and the read mail that you wish to keep new is in unbolded type. Also you can search through your mail by subject or email to try to find something or organize the entries in order of date, subject or email address. Its’ very easy to read.
2) The AOL Broadband DSL Filing Cabinet- The AOL broadband DSL filing cabinet is a lazy person’s dream come true. All you have to do is check off one button to set it up and every email you send and open will be automatically saved to your hard drive. There is even a way to put a password on it so the information is still confidential. But you can retain thousands upon thousands in the folder if you so desire. This takes away the necessity of having to physically go in and save everything you need to. You can also make multiple subfolders.
3) Favorite Places- I know that internet explorer has a means of saving your favorite websites but AOL Broadband DSL’s favorite places its set up to be a quick and mindless. On top of every window exists a heart icon and if you wish to make that page or site a favorite, simply drag it to the large heart icon on the AOL Broadband DSL toolbar. It makes a funky bleepy sound and immediately is saved. It also holds over thousands of sites and you can categorize them into folders as well. Furthermore, you can also save the entire favorite places to your hard drive so you can have it backed up.
4) Live Support- AOL Broadband DSL has really helpful customer service. They are reachable by phone, email or live chat 24 hours a day. Since they are probably brainwashed to use ultra positive happy, enthusiastic language with all customers, they are very willing to help and so excited about it that I once couldn’t help asking during a live chat session if who I was talking to was a real person. (It was). And you rarely have to wait, the representative usually enters the chat session in less than 30 seconds.
5) Computer Checkup- If for some reason your computer is acting strangely in one way or another when on AOL Broadband DSL you can run a computer checkup. This program checks a variety of important aspects of your AOL Broadband DSL browser and hardware as well and then fixes them for you or tells you how to fix them yourself.
6) Security Features- AOL Broadband DSL has a spyware monitor and also, by being a member you now get McAfee virus scan for free. And that’s well worth it because some of those programs can be expensive.
7) SPAM- While AOL Broadband DSL has a bad reputation for collecting SPAM mail in peoples’ email boxes, I believe the company is falsely accused. AOL Broadband DSL is very strict against sending SPAM. I used to have to send bulk emails for my line of business and have accidentally gotten kicked off of the entire AOL system permanently until I called to get it reactivated. They not only have a certain, secret number of emails allowed to be sent in a certain period of time, a limit of about 29 people to send an email to at once, but if you get reported as a spammer from sending to AOL members even from an outside email address, AOL Broadband DSL notifies your host with a complaint. AOL members if they suspect SPAM mail, need simply to click a “Report SPAM” button and if three people do this, the sender gets reported.
