My name is Janie. I am a blogger. I am in Florida. My children are young. My husband has an xbox. I enjoy shopping. I like heat but wish I was in snow. I live in a neighborhood with cats.
I am in Chicago. I live in Chicago. I enjoy playing quake on slackware. I have 3 dogs and 2 cats. My condo smells because I have a lot of pets. I enjoy reading online reveiws. I have to shovel snow. I play video games while snowed in. My cats are inside. The dogs go outside. I care about the wildlife population.
I bought something new on Amazon. What was it? were the reviews for it good? I found this neat toy for the kids to help them learn the alphabet.  They've already learned the first five letters! That's awesome! Maybe I should get it for my pets hahaha For sure, lol.  But actually I did see some good reviews for those multilevel cat house type things with scratching posts and a built in toy where the balls spin round and round.  Perhaps they would prefer that over the alphabet toy, lol You're right! I definitely want to get them a new scratching post. I've been reading a lot of reviews for them lately The reviews can be really helpful sometimes when deciding whether to buy a product or not, though sometimes I wonder how many of them are coming from the company itself, lol.  I'm sure you must run across them sometimes that make you a little suspicious. True. A lot of companies incentivize customers to leave positive reviews by sending gifts if they receive 5 stars. Can never be too sure! It is nice when they offer an incentive.  Sometimes I see them at the bottom of receipts from like a fast food place, but the incentive usually seems to be a "chance" for a prize, and I'd rather they just gave me a couple bucks off my next purchase.  I'm sure it's hard for companies to get genuine feedback sometimes, but they've certainly got plenty of options for what to try. Good point! I have admittedly left reviews in return for 5 dollar gift cards from the company before...but I usually also really like the product so it's a fair traded off I think I've heard before that most people only leave reviews if they are really satisfied or very upset by the service they receive, which has probably been true for me if there wasn't an incentive involved.  I know my pharmacist has been extra helpful sometimes in getting my prescriptions and issues with insurance worked out, so I took the time to leave a really positive review for her.  But then I've also been really dissatisfied by the service at restaurants before and just had to rant about it to someone, lol.  I think it's Indeed that's a website where employees can leave reviews for the jobs they have or have had, and I find those to be really helpful when I need a job and am looking around.  The anonymity of the site helps to get honest feedback about how the management and pay, etc., is. I actually did a data analysis project on Yelp for my senior thesis, and this is completely right. It's mostly 1 or 5 star reviews, because people need to have a strong opinion one way or the other to take the time to write out a review.