I love that spider that someone posted pictures of a couple years ago, that looks like it is smiling.
I have a selection of wolf spiders living in and under the house, and some daddy longlegs/huntsman. I don’t mind web spinners under the house, or in the attic crawlspace but I do sweep away webs when I find them in the house. I used to keep tarrantulas back in the early 80s, and might consider keeping them again if we end up having the space available.
I used to have a basement apartment in Spokane, Washington and they were everywhere. I swear I smushed one that must have been eating birds and small mammals it was so big. The glue traps I took to setting out would fill up within days with specimens that would give me shivers when I thought about them crawling around on me while I slept.
Used to wake up with bites all the time, though never had a reaction to them beyond some itchiness.
As far as liking, I like daddy long legs and the common house spider that takes care of the other bugs and spiders that get into the house… though I have a general rule that if I see something in the house with more than 4 legs, it dies.
The Magnolia Green Jumper is probably my favorite. I had one hitch a ride on my bicycle handlebar once (all the way home from work), and was amazed at how she scurried around without falling off. Sometimes she’d hang down with a silk thread and come back up.
Writing spiders (aka black and yellow garden spider) are pretty cool too. We usually have a few living in our yard - currently 3 egg sacs that I know of.
Least favorite spiders are the ones that have the potential to harm me - especially black widows, because I run into them all too often, in unsuspecting places (e.g. bottom of my dog’s water bowl). Now, I know jumping spiders can bite too, but the danger is nothing like black widows or brown recluses (right?).
I’m fond of the largish brown wolf spiders that run around our building when the weather gets warm. Everybody comes and asks me to catch them to put outside, but if they’re in my office, I usually leave them alone and sometimes give them names.
I generally like spiders. I’ve had pet ones around my house too, like Miss Muffet who lived under the printer on my desk. She was smaller and greyish with darker racing stripes and long forelegs, but I don’t know precisely what species that would be.
Daddy-long legs, on the other hand, give me the creeps.