Anyone else refuse to have an Alexa

[Anonymous]

Nope. I don’t have a unhealthy paranoia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have one. I don't have a smart TV or smart anything, nor a fitbit. It was a big deal when I got my Furbo camera, which I turn off/ cover/ point toward the wall when we are home. I guess I just don't understand the need for all the gadgets and technology.

Sad boomer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just can't get over the fact that some company will hear EVERYTHING going on in my own home. Kind of freaks me out

Exactly. People are looney. Just look how FB can dox you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't have one. I don't have a smart TV or smart anything, nor a fitbit. It was a big deal when I got my Furbo camera, which I turn off/ cover/ point toward the wall when we are home. I guess I just don't understand the need for all the gadgets and technology.

Sad boomer

Haha. Not a boomer! Gen X.

[Anonymous]

My kids want one so bad, all of our friends have one, but it freaks me out.
I don't want anything to be listening to me in my own home and no, i don't need her to turn on music or a light or whatever.

I have hands that can do that.

[Anonymous]

You can go onto your account and hear literally everything she's recorded.

Yes, she gets snippets of conversations. It's actually pretty funny to hear!

But I cannot believe that people seem more afraid of Alexa spying on them than they are of foreign interference in our elections. Get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I don’t have a unhealthy paranoia

+1 I have one in every room. Whoever's listening must be bored out of their minds.

[Anonymous]

I just never really understood the point and the hype and I enjoy a lot of technology (except for TV stuff cause I’m not into TV). I love having the latest phone and Apple Watch, etc. just don’t get the allure of this machine.

Like, I can google and turn music on and check the weather on my phone. Why do I need to talk to an imaginary robot to do that? I don’t know why it’s so popular. To use the features like turn lights on and off you have to have a special suite of outlets and switches, no? Pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids want one so bad, all of our friends have one, but it freaks me out.
I don't want anything to be listening to me in my own home and no, i don't need her to turn on music or a light or whatever.

I have hands that can do that.

Grandma gave our kids hers. They leave it unplugged when not in use and plug it in when needed. Like, Alexa, recite MLK I Have A Dream speech (for a school project or other homework) or just fun: play a song, tell a joke, ask world facts, trivia, etc etc. Then they turn it off.

[Anonymous]

Love ours. Helps my kid with adhd get up on the morning, and listen to music at night without having an iPhone in the room.

[Anonymous]

“Alexa, what is the answer to ‘do I refuse to have an Alexa’?”

[Anonymous]

I didn't want one because I'm cheap. I got a Google Home speaker for $20 from The Goodwill. Maybe it's listening. Maybe it's not. I don't really care. If they suddenly publish audio of me talking about wanting a new job or my relatives getting on my nerves, I can't really say the fallout will be that severe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never even occurred to me to have one!

Same here. I just don't see the point in our house.

[Anonymous]

I love the thing. At first I couldn't understand why anyone would want one. But when the echo dot went on sale for $29, I decided to get one. I was shocked by how much I love it. We now have four my regular sized echos. And no I am not the least bit worried that someone could be "listening" to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never even occurred to me to have one!

Same here. I just don't see the point in our house.

There's a lot of great uses for it. I love how easy it is to use as an alarm. You can just peak out loud and set the alarm. If you want to change the time you don't have to fiddle with it, you just speak out loud. Great for snooze also. You can just lay in bed and say "Alexa snooze for 5 minutes" without having to lean over while half awake and hit the button. Another thing I really like about it, is how easy it is to add things to your lists. There is an alexa app that you can download on your phone where you can have lists. I keep my grocery list on it. If I am looking in the refrigerator and see that we're out of ketchup, I just say "Alexa, put ketchup on grocery list" I don't have to go to my phone and add it like I did before. That may not sound like much, but it is extremely helpful, before Alexa, I wouldn't automatically add something to my list as soon as I thought of it, and I lot of times I would forget to record it. These are just two examples, but once you really learn what it can do and how to find uses for it that are useful to you, it really is quite helpful.