Friday Fiver

[ringsandcoffee]

Yay thefridayfive!

1. How did you name your pets?
My betta fish get fandom names. I've gone through many in the past 13 years. My current four are Ten(th Doctor), Emma (Once Upon a Time), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing/Nothing Much to Do), and Captain America.

2. Poirot or Miss Marpel?
My Anglophilia has not yet gotten into mystery TV series. I watched one episode of Midsummer Murders with my old roommate, and it was quite cheesy.

3. Do you have a FB account too?
Yes, since 2007. I vaguely remember when a friend had it when you had to have a college email to join. Little did I know what it would become.

4. Books - hardcover or paperback
Whichever is easiest to hold open. Small paperbacks I'm not a huge fan of.

5. Mobile(cell phone): Windows/Android or Apple?
iPhone. Just went from 5S to 6S. I've tried helping people with Samsung phones and could not figure them out. Strange, because I am a PC person and hate Mac computers.

Comments

[coercedbynutmeg.livejournal.com]

If I'd known 13 years ago when I started my FB account what it would become, I probably wouldn't have bothered. Geez.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a time-suck. However, I waste more hours on other sites than just FB alone.

The FB drama though. I guess I was somewhat prepared by LJ drama. Heck, I still remember being told off for something stupid on an email group.

[coercedbynutmeg.livejournal.com]

Part of it is the time suck, but a lot of it is the way that it perniciously invades my life. People invite me to parties. Oh, you're overseas, well here's the ONLINE LINK to buy stuff! Here are invites to 553 Lula Roe Pop Up Parties! Or how it spies on your search history or tells people what things you've read and liked that other people have posted. Though I try to be fairly apolitical on there, if I like an article and it throws it into someone's feed, they'll know what I was reading. That seems overly invasive. Etc.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

The Lularoe sucks me in, but I'm only in 2 groups. Being a fan of 'if it fits, buy it in every color' makes LLR work for me. I got so annoyed at all the people selling that lash crap though.

I got freaked out once when I was at work (where I sometimes check FB) and searched Google for certain erasers, then came home and had eraser ads on my FB sidebar. Different places, different servers, different computers, but FB knew I needed erasers.

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Haha, I've tried to help people with Apple phones and could not figure it out. I guess it's what you're used to!