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My dear adorable friend Maura Tierney stopped by @busytonighttv! Tune in TONIGHT! ??????????

A post shared by Busy Philipps (@busyphilipps) on Dec 11, 2018 at 6:07pm PST

Maura Tierney was on Busy Tonight this week. She’s promoting Beautiful Boy, starring Timothee Chalamet, and she’s also on The Affair, which has been renewed for a fifth season starting next year. Maura and Busy were actually on ER together for a season so they had an easy rapport, but Busy seems to have that with everyone. Busy asked Maura if she’s on social media and she said she’s not because it’s too much work. What’s more is that she supposedly doesn’t shop online because she’s paranoid.

On why she’s not on social media
It seems like a lot of work and also I don’t know how to take a selfie. I decided two weeks ago [to try]. I’m like, I can’t figure it out. I never look good. I don’t know how to do that [duck] face.

Busy: Do you shop online?
No. Don’t you notice you’ll have a conversation and then an ad will come up? I don’t need to give them any more ammo about what I like and what I don’t like.

Busy: Why? Are they going to come get you with cozy sweaters and sensible boots?

On her phobias
I’m really afraid of getting locked out of my house. The only reason to have a husband is to have an extra set of keys or to change the batteries in my smoke detector. That beep is like ‘get married, get married, get married.’

[From video of Busy Tonight]

While I can’t find any definitive evidence that ads come up based on things our phones overhear, I read a thread on reddit about this last year. A technician was able to measure packets being sent from his phone to the Facebook app when it was idle. He also received ads specific to things he was watching outside of his phone. He mentioned that you can test this by playing spanish channels on your TV (If you’re not a native Spanish speaker.) I tried this out by watching Telemundo. Before I subscribed to YouTube Red I would regularly get ads in Spanish. So I uninstalled Facebook. Actually I’ve noticed this happening to me again, I’ll see ads for things I was just talking about and know for a fact I didn’t google. I just realized it must be because I installed Instagram on my phone! I need it for this job (follow me!) but that’s crazy. Here’s an article on Vice about ads that spy. The companies deny doing it, but it’s possible for them to do based on their TOS, and it’s the most likely explanation.

As for Maura, I’m surprised she doesn’t buy anything online at all. I know people like this who still do all of their shopping in person, but I really enjoy the process of looking up items and reading reviews. I’m one of those people who think that the right product can streamline or change my life. I mean this rarely happens but I still get excited for it.

Here’s the video!

photos credit: WENN and Instagram/Busy Philipps