Weird love's better than no love.

Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Amy - Jul 12, 2013 8:53:45 am PDT #28951 of 30001
Because books.

Oh my god, I hate my job. We were just told that when we're instructed to, we have to comment on our crap content, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Or, you know, we'll get FIRED, since some poor soul has been designated to keep track of the user names we have to give her by five today.

It's not possible to have two Google+ accounts, is it? Because I'm not using my own. I already created a fake Twitter, though.


-t - Jul 12, 2013 8:58:34 am PDT #28952 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ooh, thank you, Jesse! Marking to peruse during my leisure time...


le nubian - Jul 12, 2013 9:01:01 am PDT #28953 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Amy, yes it is. You can have a google+ account tied to whatever gmail acct you have.

Can you just do twitter and linkedin or do you have to do ALL of them?


Amy - Jul 12, 2013 9:08:04 am PDT #28954 of 30001
Because books.

We're supposed to use all of them, although "Facebook is optional since it's more family and friends."

I'm not creating a fake LinkedIn -- I wouldn't even know where to begin. But I'm also not posting bullshit there with my name on it, or on my Google+ account. I just can't figure out how to make a second one.


Jesse - Jul 12, 2013 9:19:41 am PDT #28955 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, Amy.

I think this weekend I am going to Target. I need a lot of drugstore stuff and a new toaster oven and now I want popsicle molds! But maybe a toaster oven is too much to carry and I should order it? Hmm. At least I can go poke the machines in person.


Jessica - Jul 12, 2013 9:26:09 am PDT #28956 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We were just told that when we're instructed to, we have to comment on our crap content, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Or, you know, we'll get FIRED, since some poor soul has been designated to keep track of the user names we have to give her by five today.

Ugh, DH had a job like that once - the magazine's website was getting no traffic, so the staff was instructed to create sockpuppets and fake comments on all the articles. (Or was it that they were supposed to create fake profiles for the online dating site attached to the magazine? I forget.)

Either way, it was WAY ethically shady, and the magazine went under completely less than a year later.


Amy - Jul 12, 2013 9:28:57 am PDT #28957 of 30001
Because books.

A toaster oven might be a bit heavy to carry home, Jesse.

Either way, it was WAY ethically shady, and the magazine went under completely less than a year later.

Oh, this place is completely shady. All the way in the shade. I'm just waiting for someone to bust them, honestly.


Jesse - Jul 12, 2013 9:47:05 am PDT #28958 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

A toaster oven might be a bit heavy to carry home, Jesse.

Yeah. I am always carrying too-heavy things home! At least the walk is on the Target side of the subway ride.


Tom Scola - Jul 12, 2013 9:49:44 am PDT #28959 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

From beneath you, it devours.


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2013 9:52:42 am PDT #28960 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Any gmail account will beg you to go all Google+ on its ass. It's annoying, or maybe I shouldn't have 15. That's easy enough. LinkedIn and FaceBook seem like a lot of trouble to fake, but you should be able to whip up a mildly convincing Twitter and G+ secondary account with which to drink the company Kool Aid.

If your fake people need fake friends, I've got alternate identities aplenty. I mean, I can speak to a man about a horse for you.

Why hiccoughs? These are a treaty violation, and fucking with my typing to boot.

Right. I need to get a message to my doctor to try going all out on this admission. I don't want anything to go untried just because they think I'm delicate. DO EVERYTHING.