Oct 22nd, 2024

Author: donich_admin

Amazon’s opinion of me

Living where we do we are hugely reliant on Amazon.  I’ve actually been a customer since 2005 when they were a shop that sold “papery reading things” and have seen them metamorphosize into what they are today.  I’ve quite literally had 1000s of orders from them.

Yesterday I had cause to edit my profile (to tell it that since my foot operations I am a size 6 shoe not a 5).  I noticed that they have a profile for my interests based on my past purchases.

I presume that this does not take into account the books that I have bought, because although I have bought a few cookery books, I can pretty much guarantee that the only book about cleaning I’ve purchased was many years ago when I bought R “Housekeeping for Men” as a gentle hint (it had no effect).  So Amazon has me profiled as a real homemaker.  I’ll need to convert to a cult and buy an apron with “Stay sweet, pray, obey” on it.   Maybe one day I will even be demure…

Actually, it could be worse.  Imagine if I had bought a load of handcuffs, latex masks and hocky sticks…  What would my interests be then?  It is somewhat shameful that as another jokey remark I nearly put “bags of fertilizer, nails and maps of central London” and then decided that wouldn’t be wise.  Ah, I see I did put that.