Saul Hansell, Blogger, Bits, New York Times

So That's Who Uses AOL

September 15, 2008 at 12:03 am PT

In honor of a redesign of AOL’s home page, we asked Bits readers earlier this week, “Who Uses AOL and Why?” So far, we’ve heard from more than 380 of you.

The sheer range of opinions about AOL, built up over a complex two-decade history, shows how difficult the challenge is for Bill Wilson, the company’s executive vice president for programming.

By far the most common answer to my question was succinctly put by a user who calls himself DonO: “Inertia Rocks.” He and many others have email addresses at AOL.com that they don’t want to change.

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