It saddens me that I'm going to have to quit surfing one of my favorite traffic exchanges. Today, Tim over at Startxchange decided to up the surf timer from 10 seconds to 15 seconds. First of all, I hate 15 or 20 second surf timers. I prefer ones that are under 10 if I can find them.
Now I understand kind of why he did it but the timing without warning has me perplexed. Mid-morning he just switched it over, plain as that. No notice given. To me, it's all about the principle of a way someone goes about doing something. As soon as my credits are used up, that will be it for me.
I liked Startxchange for several reasons. I could advertise 10 sites, 5 banners and 5 text links easily as a free member. Occasionally, I would win 1000 credits or my favorite was the 24 hour platinum upgrade.
I'm actually kind of glad, though. I found it be too addictive and monotonous. The way it's setup is kind of a ladder tier system where you are competing with fellow members for a position. I personally felt like a new prison inmate swatting others out of my rear end. There is no letting up. You get up to get a drink and someone passes you. In order to keep your position for the day you have to surf anywhere around 2000 times a day, more if you want to move up. If you like the competition, have at it.
Several times, I thought about upgrading so I wouldn't have to surf so much but I never could talk myself into it. Now my wife will be happy that I'm not surfing as much. She's says, " You've been at that for 2 years now." To tell you the truth, I'll just be surfing other sites.
Well, I enjoyed it, Tim. I will miss some but others I cannot forget soon enough.
