Does anybody know how or where i can view aol profiles without aol?

Yea... im not sure exactly what site it is but its called something like www.profilespy.com

[Corrvin]

Thanks, but you might want to verify your information before posting it, please. When visiting that address, I find

it is our deepest regret to inform everyone that the ProfileSpy service has been forced to shut down permanently....America Online has disapproved of our service and is unwilling to agree with the continuation of the website.

When I, an AOL member, post a profile on AOL, I do it with the understanding that the information will be available only to AOL members. AOL in fact has a privacy policy that states this (see keyword PRIVACY, section 1). So, if you take information I've posted on AOL, and re-distribute it, you're not only going against my wishes, you're going against AOL's stated wishes.

Yeah, AOL has a few million members-- about a tenth the population of the US, all told-- but think of it this way. Imagine you're female (not a stretch for 51% of us). You're in a huge stadium and have to go to the restroom. You walk into a packed bathroom, and as you're standing in line, you suddenly notice that the person in front of you is a man! Yes, you expected to share your experience with a few hundred people-- but you thought you knew what kind of people they'd be. AOL members expect to share some parts of their AOL experience only with other AOL members, not with everyone else on the internet.

More to the point, when that information is available to anyone whether or not they want to pay for an AOL account and give their name and address-- it's available to anyone who wants to pick up a few thousand names for junk mail, and not leave any way to track them down. That's the practical reason, and I suspect it's the reason why this website and others like it are shut down.

Corr

[Barry Allen]

I'm forced to argue your logic, with all due respect. You're comparing sharing your AOL profile with non-AOL members to using the restroom with men. Besides my general disagreement with your argument, I have to point out the poor quality of the analogy: sharing profiles and using a public restroom with the opposite sex are entirely different things.

While I understand the site violated AOL's privacy policy, I obviously fail to see what a horrible offense this particular violation really is. I don't understand your need to differentiate between perverts and stalkers that use AOL and perverts and stalkers that do not.

When I still used AOL, I was only attached to the service for the member profiles (every other part of that service is inferior to my current configuration: using AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo for everything else.) Still, I would have gladly paid the $22 a month to continue using it solely for access to profiles. Unfortunately, I couldn't financially rationalize the monthly bill to check the profiles of my friends and relatives; if I was a richer man, I might.

Would you be opposed to a website in which you had to know the name of the person whose profile you wanted? What if you weren't able to search by interests or location or anything? Just one bar for you to type your friend's screen name so you could see what's going on? Would that be so difficult, or so offensive, to engineer?

i think its stupid to let us veiw aol members profile. becuase i have aim and i like to veiw my friends profiles , u know. i just think thats pretty stupid to say thats a privacy thing ,because all where doin is reading their profile that they put down for people to read.

[quote]Originally posted by goatpunishment86
[b]Does anybody know how or where i can view aol profiles without aol? i need to know where CFGun306 is?

try this. (dunno if its actual aol profiles, or similar created by user)

http://hometown.aol.com/

[minnerr]

if ne1 here has their own website, i need 2 no how to create more then 1 page, all i have it the title page, and i need 2 no how to make it so u need a password to enter my other pages, e-mail me if you can help me.

[minnerr]

how do u view profiles with out aol? i cant find ne sites

[AMJones]

Originally posted by minnerr
how do u view profiles with out aol? i cant find ne sites

You can't. AOL doesn't make this feature available to non-members.

As a matter of fact, you can find AOL profile on the internet.... Im not as to which site, but you DEFINATLEY can... go to www.aimhelp.com and then go to tricks (i think) then they will give you the website... sry i cant find it for you because my internet is not working... ( i know ur thinking.., well then how r u writting this, I JUST AM!!)

[AMJones]

go to www.aimhelp.com and then go to tricks

Neither aimhelp.com nor the site you are referring to are functional at this time.

[Slim_Shady2345]

First, go to aol.com , then click aol instant messenger (its closer to the botton of the page),then go to aim express which is on the side. when there, click start, log in, and click on view buddy profile (for someone with aol),and there you go!

[swfan689]

this thread is about view aol profiles without aol, its not about viewing aim profiles with aol because u can already do that

aol profiles cannot be seen by aim users... for aim users this sucks because we cant see our friends profiles... the aim express thing works... but who the hell wants to go into aim express just to look at a friends profile... aol should change how things work and allow aim users to see aol profiles and vice versa...