Anonymous wrote:I live in a nice neighborhood and everyone has ring. We have the doorbell but no alarm. We're the only people without an alarm. My neighbors thing we are crazy. After talking to the moms, I think they are crazy (even the ones who are my friends). They all have the alarms specifically because they think bad people are attempting to break in and kill them every day. Many of these women live in constant fear of home invasion. One friend has expressed to me on multiple occasions how fearful she is because the world is, according to her, so much more unsafe than it has ever been. This friend regular texts me to check on things at her house while she's at work (I work from home) because she sees something weird on a camera. When she travels, she checks cameras nonstop and has someone stay at her house to keep her assured no one is breaking in - which repeats her fear, because then she spends the whole vacation tracking the housesitter's comings and goings, and regularly texts me to check up on weird things she's observing the housesitter doing on camera. She has instilled this fear into her kids - her 17 year old daughter will call her mom a lot at work, for every weird noise she hears that she is convinced someone is breaking in. Again, i'm asked to go take a look.

This is bonkers to me, but is a view expressed by pretty much every woman friend i have in my mid-sized town (not in the DC area), other than my one good friend from France. They all think people are attempting to break in daily. And they live in constant low-grade fear over it. I literally never think about break ins. I'm not from the US either, but i've been here 30 years and not observed in my immediate circles any particular spate of home invasions that makes me question my view. Granted, it's entirely possible my house will be broken into and they steal some of my stuff. Luckily, i have money and can replace it. If someone wants to come in and murder me or my family while I'm home, i'm not deluded enough to think the Ring will stop them. So Ring is really just a theft invasion thing.

Anonymous wrote:I live in a safe neighborhood but there was a weird situation when my daughter was home alone and a group of men kept pounding on the door and ringing the bell insistently. We think they got the wrong address for an estate sale, but it freaked her (and us) out, so we got a doorbell cam as she is home by herself a decent amount and it's good to be able to "see" from afar. I also used to work from home and preferred to have it to deal- or not deal- with solicitors.