January 12, 2005
Netflix "Friends"
Posted by Jess in
Tech Talk
Netflix (online DVD rental) now has a great feature: friends. (No, you cannot rent friends online. You'd only be able to have three at a time regardless of the fact that you can keep them for as long as you want, and they might get mad if you gave them a low rating. )
You can add your friend's email addresses to your "friends" list, and you can click a button to send them a recommendation. On their side, they'll get sent an email, and can click to add it to their queue.
We've been doing it the hard way all this time. This consists of sending emails, "you gotta add this to your queue!". And then after deleting the email, promptly forgetting the title. And sending another email asking what it was again... And by that time, the original person couldn't remember what movie they were trying to recommend in the first place, so they get "recommendation anxiety" and pop out the first movie that comes into their minds, so the other person is sitting there one night wondering, "why the hell am I watching The Natural History of the Chicken?"
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