To NOT let Alexa come and live with us?

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DB thinks she would be amazing and be a wonderful addition to the family, I think she would make our lives a misery. She comes from Amazon and I don't feel I need another woman running my home!

YANBU. Most definitely not.

If my DH wants her to move in with him, I think I will be moving out!

It’s all good fun unless your dc has a similar name and she responds when you shout at them

THIS is my fear hahahaha

Absolutely NOT! I would not have IT in the house. I don't have a smart phone and I definitely don't want a smart house.

I love Alexa.

I use the timer, alarm and reminders all the time - when cooking, for kids electronics time, to remind myself of little things I'd otherwise forget but would never bother to put an actual alarm on my phone for.

Every morning we listen to the flash briefing when making breakfast (news roundup) and maybe ask for the weather/traffic.

The shopping list function is bloody life transforming. I add to it over a day, it automatically transfers to the shopping list app on both mine and dh's phones and then dh will stop and buy it all on the way home (or vice versa).

And of course music - it gets used all day long for music. And occasionally for questions/random info.

Never thought I would be into it (it was dh's purchase) but I love it. I kind of felt/feel the same about Alexa as I did about a dishwasher...before I had one I though it was lazy and pointless...afterwards you realise how awesome it is and wouldn't want to be without it!

This thread made me buy one today and I swear its my ASD daughters dream come true. Bless her! She hasnt stopped talking to it

I changed my Alex’s name to Computer, as I’m a huge Trekkie

I haven’t used it much yet...mainly as a speaker so far.

I feel horrified because this thread has made me go from paranoid about them to actually wanting one. It's sounds so futuristic and cool

DotCottonDotCom So glad that your daughter likes it. I think that Alexa has so much to offer to people who are lonely or have special needs. She's given so much joy to an elderly relative of mine.

If we ever get given one, my 1st & only sentence will be:- "kill yourself, you sorry excuse of a jumped up abacus!".

Nasty horrible spy thingies.

I think that Alexa has so much to offer to people who are lonely or have special needs. She's given so much joy to an elderly relative of mine

Yeah I never thought about that until I saw this thread, it’s quite heart warming.

My daughter kept spotting it in Sainsbury’s and I just knew her and Alexa would get on, but nothing like this!!! She’s asked so much and learning loads from the tidbits of wiki. Short and sweet for her lack of patience. It even spells out words for her, and she’s sat listening and interacting with a story.

Gotta say, didn’t give a shit til now.

I love my Alexa, simply for the shopping list. When I’m in the middle of cooking it’s so easy to add something to the shopping list without searching for a pen
With 5 adults in the house it now means we never run out of milk.
She’s brilliant for music too.

Amazons firewall has to be incredibly effective as it stores credit card details for faster shopping so your "private" conversations will also be kept guarded and only used for amazons own purpose.
We have Alexa in every room working our lights, heating and smart gadgets. She can even turn my car engine on for me as I walk out the front door and switch the heating off as I pull out my driveway ready to come on 10 minutes before I'm due home. My roomba will have done the hoovering whilst I'm out and my ikettle will be on as I take my shoes off. She even does my online shopping for me.
I don't need her but I enjoy having my life made easier.
Have her, don't have her it's up to you and your reasons whatever you do.

I love mine but I call her 'The A Word' when talking to others or she interrupts telling me she didn't understand what I was saying

She can even turn my car engine on for me as I walk out the front door and switch the heating off as I pull out my driveway ready to come on 10 minutes before I'm due home. My roomba will have done the hoovering whilst I'm out and my ikettle will be on as I take my shoes off. She even does my online shopping for me

You can almost see the consequences if Alexa becomes sentient!!

She can even turn my car engine on for me as I walk out the front door

What type of car do you need for this, or what type of modification do you need to add it it? And you wouldn't be able to leave your car in gear, like most people do without thinking, to stop it rolling down hill if the handbrake fails or the brakes contract when they cool down.

I can see how useful they are and for some people above and beyond being a gadget, but I'm not comfortable with too much smart tech.

I never thought I’d want Alexa, but got the echo dot for Christmas.

Brilliant for kids (Alexa play the Trolls soundtrack), great for weather updates, reading stories, asking questions. My 7 year old is always thinking of questions to ask.

My 2 year old gets it, but can’t say Alexa. So he just says ‘lesa’ over and over getting louder and louder and doesn’t know why he’s being ignored!

Kids do add stuff to my shopping list, and to do list list which is funny.

Am surprised, really love her now.

She is so creepy, always listening in.

We got a dot for Christmas, DH then went and bought another Echo Spot. It’s great for playing music a choice of everything!
We’ve just tried out a true or false quiz, great for get togethers!
The reminders are also good. I do wonder what my parents and grandparents would make of it, if they were alive today.

No way. DH is a huge techie but I draw the line at these. Big Brother is watching you 😱

It's an it.

Switching your lights/washer/heating/engine on for you. Telling your automatic Hoover to Hoover up for you. Writing your shopping list for you. How busy do you have to be to not have time to do this stuff for yourself? I think this is a glimpse inyonoyr future where we're just blobs on the settee, sitting in isolation, being served by an army of robots. I think that's quite a scary prospect.

*into our future etc etc

So if you are telling Alexa about the crap relationship you are having with your partner, would she tell you to LTB ..?

Just a thought...

I like the idea about the shopping lists and playing music, but I’m not sure about the rest.