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Funny coincidence I was just wondering this a few weeks ago when reading a Tinder bio of a girl named Alexa who had something to the effect of 'heard all the Alexa jokes for a lifetime thanks' Made me wonder if there is a class action lawsuit where all of the Alexa's could sue Amazon for psychological distress or something.
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I am acquaintances with a Siri. She's seems like a nice person, but since she works in a service industry I bet she's tired of hearing "Hey, Siri" all the time. If I was her, I'd ask for permission to not wear a name tag.
Has she considered changing the name on the tag, just at work? Just put "Jane" or something generic, or "Sarah" so it sounds similar. But yeah, it unfair that she has to be the one to change.
It's certainly become an inconvenient name to utter around our house, due to the responses it elicits from our countertops. So my daughter came up with the idea of referring to the device as "Amelia" whenever we talk about her. It has worked brilliantly and I suggest that everyone adopt the same convention.
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I know an Alexa and she says the same. I'll admit I hadn't thought about it before but it does sound like an incredibly annoying thing to have dropped on you from on high: constant jokes, if anyone addresses you in an Amazon-enabled home all kind of crap gets triggered... I can see why people are infuriated by it.
It's like "Karen", but in this case the blame for misuse lies on a single company rather than a meme. We shouldn't abuse people's names by using them for products, gross generalizations, etc. It's poor taste, and it frequently hurts people unintentionally. Imagine your own name being used as a term for ridicule or poking fun. It's not a good feeling.
You mean like "a John"? Or "Dick"? Or "a big Charlie"? These things are old as sin, stuff like this will probably exist forever. Forbid it as much as you want, it will always come back one way or another. Or is the problem that now they "trend female", whereas they historically trended male?
I have a pretty simple name, but because it was used in the title of a popular movie at one point, I've endured jokes about it all my life. What are we going to do, have all characters nameless in media? Of course not.
Sometimes the answer really is "grow a thicker skin". Either that or abandon the "tainted" name, like it happened to Adolph/Adolf.
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It's interesting how we twist our behaviour to accomodate the technology and not the other way around. What worked great for us was not buying the thing in the first place.
Don't worry the wake word will be customizable soon enough;
I work with an Aleksa that I refer to frequently during calls, and was quite excited when I stumbled on the wake word setting in the Alexa app.
Funny coincidence I was just wondering this a few weeks ago when reading a Tinder bio of a girl named Alexa who had something to the effect of 'heard all the Alexa jokes for a lifetime thanks' Made me wonder if there is a class action lawsuit where all of the Alexa's could sue Amazon for psychological distress or something.
Just a friendly reminder that baby names are adult names.
Related: Being married to an actual Siri made it easy for us to rule out one of the home automation platforms. (I asked, but somehow she didn’t feel like changing her name.)
I am acquaintances with a Siri. She's seems like a nice person, but since she works in a service industry I bet she's tired of hearing "Hey, Siri" all the time. If I was her, I'd ask for permission to not wear a name tag.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like "Karen", but in this case the blame for misuse lies on a single company rather than a meme. We shouldn't abuse people's names by using them for products, gross generalizations, etc. It's poor taste, and it frequently hurts people unintentionally. Imagine your own name being used as a term for ridicule or poking fun. It's not a good feeling.
> Imagine your own name being used as a term for ridicule or poking fun. You mean like "a John"? Or "Dick"? Or "a big Charlie"? These things are old as sin, stuff like this will probably exist forever. Forbid it as much as you want, it will always come back one way or another. Or is the problem that now they "trend female", whereas they historically trended male? I have a pretty simple name, but because it was used i…
> You mean like "a John"? Or "Dick"? Or "a big Charlie"?
This has been the case for so long that parents have had ample time to stop naming their children this.
They recently renamed a nearby bridge in Georgia from "Dick Hunter Memorial Bridge" [1,2].
[1] http://ethunter1.blogspot.com/2006/03/hunter-bridge-part-2.h...
[2] https://thegate.boardingarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/...
