This year Netflix gets a stocking crammed with rats

Netflix sends you email notifications now when one of your friends has "sent you" a note. Most of my Netflix friends are savvy enough to use the annoying "note" feature as the old Two-Cent Review feature, and they simply send them to all of your friends (an option we had to write Netflix to get).

I'm so mad about the Netflix note email things that I wrote Netflix a note email OF THEIR OWN. Well, I guess I write them on a pretty regular basis. I have this weird fantasy that I'm one of their oldest and best customers and that I sit in a mansion on a hill, owning Netflix Town, and that when I talk, they listen. I'm basing this on the fact that the Friends feature itself was my idea, not to mention the multiple queues idea. Also I got them to carry my boyfriend's band's DVD.

Anyway, I hate the fact that all of my friends think I'm an overly enthusiastic loser (or maybe are just reminded of that fact) because now they assume I'm just sending them each specific little notes about everything via email. Granted, they could have just assumed that this was just created as part of their many email subscription options and assigned as a default and that they could just go on and change it, but the beauty of Netflix is that you shouldn't have to assume much. It's ridiculously easy to use.

As a result, my boyfriend believes that my roommate and I are going through a "Gremlins phase"* because both of us inadvertantly filled his email inbox with our thoughts about the movie, which we just watched. Netflix is putting my relationship in jeopardy.

Here's how to turn off the emails and be my friend again.

*I kind of am, though. I'm writing a review that will be posted shortly.