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Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone
- tams 7y agoThat's some hacker spirit.
- yread 7y agoWhat a creative marketing campaign
- kylesellas 7y agohahaha agreed
- yoz-y 7y agoI like to give things like this benefit of the doubt (mainly because it makes internet more fun) but in this case I must agree. And in the unlikely case this is genuine, what's with all the people telling the mother how to parent her kid.
- InvaderFizz 7y agoVery much appears to be a native ad to me. Well done, LG.
- hedora 7y agoI kinda doubt LG would pay for this publicity (unless they actually think a twitter client on a fridge that serves no purpose other than being non-confiscatable is a selling point to parents). Maybe a competitor did it? Also, the mom says she’ll be disabling accounts in one of the tweets. Maybe Dorthy’s original account was recently closed.
- brokenmachine 7y agoWhy would you doubt that? Of course they would. And we're talking about it. They've been trying to shovel their stupid smart fridges forever. Lots of people probably don't know they exist, and after this astroturfing, now they do. I can't think of a place that I want internet less than standing in the kitchen. I bet it has a camera/mic, and sells my fridge usage data to the highest bidder also. And to top it all off, it's just another attackable device when it stops getting updates in a couple of years. https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en
- donmcronald 7y agoWhat makes you think a 2 week old social media account with an obscure name and no other matching social accounts would be used to advertise an LG Smart Refrigerator?
- hdrujvw-4579 7y agoA comment that points out a possible marketing campaign followed by a response that questions the comment while casually dropping the brand name and model of a product. That response seems marketing campaign.
- kube-system 7y agoPreposterous! While the LG Smart Refrigerator, powered by SmartThinQ® technology, is certainly a premium product at an excellent price, I don’t think there’s any evidence here to show that the upstanding employees of the LG Corporation are behind any of these tweets.
- hndamien 7y agoThe fabulous people at LG would never engage in such a thinly veiled attempt at marketing through the Guardian's exceptionally high editorial standards just to promote their amazing ThinQ display tech. #FreeDorothy
- panpanna 7y agoI think this is a r/hailcorporate joke and not really from an LG employee.
- donmcronald 7y agoOn a more serious note, how does this work? Do they pay for followers, influencers to promote it, directly for articles like this? I’m really starting to think we need updated legislation for labelling ads.
- cnorthwood 7y agoWe do in the UK at least, although compliance is problematic: https://www.asa.org.uk/resource/influencers-guide.html https://www.asa.org.uk/resource/influencers-guide.html for some info
- roelschroeven 7y agoI've read of would-be influencers who endorse products while not being paid for it (since they didn't find anyone willing to pay) still using the labelling because otherwise they would have to admit that nobody finds them important enough to pay them for advertising.
- michaelt 7y agoThere are services that sell upvotes - such as [1]. Presumably while also maintaining a large enough set of plausible-looking profiles, IP addresses, browser fingerprints etc to bypass upvote ring detection. So you don't have to pay high-profile influencers, who might be expensive or give away that it's a paid campaign. A marketing company comes up with an adequate post, posts it on one site and gets it upvoted, and with a bit of luck there you have it, it gets reposted onto other sites and maybe even ends up in conventional media. I strongly suspect the "we get it, you vape" meme was brought-and-paid-for by the cigarette industry by these means. You can hire ad agencies to make fake terrorist videos and promote racial division [2] so it's not like advertisers are too ethical to do this type of stuff. [1] https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/ https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bell_Pottinger&oldid=902639563#Exposure_of_plans,_and_resulting_disgrace https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bell_Pottinger&ol...
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- slap 7y agoTwitter account "Joined July 2019", indeed...
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- serpix 7y agoShe caused a fire because she got distracted with Social Media. As a parent I would also confiscate electronics and probably consider therapy at that point.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoShe caused a fire cooking, which can happen pretty easily if you aren't careful: obviously it is the cooking instructions that are faulty that haven't conveyed the risks properly. Realistically she could just as well had to go to the toilet and then forget about the stove, and what are you banning then?
- pizza234 7y agoThe assumption here is that she has an addictive personality (in this case, to social media), and she's impared in (at least) daily responsibilities.
- dagw 7y agoIf she got distracted reading a book, would you also consider therapy?
- pizza234 7y agoTypically, there's a large difference between the bookworm and the social media addicted personality. Within the limits of very gross generalizations (which is inevitable in this context), the former category is largely healthier than the latter.
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoYou say that now but there were people complaining about people spending too much time on books back when generally available books were new.
- prepend 7y agoPerhaps if she started a fire while reading. I’m a parent and based on that experience I expect the subjects episode was part of a larger pattern.
- einarfd 7y agoThe Internet of Shit to the rescue.
- comb42 7y agowe need to introduce her to slip and 300 baud modems
- comb42 7y agowe need to introduce her to morse code slip and 300 baud modems
- thomasfl 7y agoFight for your right to tweet and freedom of speech. #FreeDorothy ;-)
- benj111 7y agoThis reminds me of a story an older colleague told me. In ye olden days (60s or 70s) they used to have locks to fit over dial telephones, and this colleagues dad fitted a lock as punishment for running up large phone bills. You don't need to use the dial on dial telephones though, you can just use the hang up button to create the right pulse lengths, so that's what she did. Teenagers it seems don't really change that much.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoThat was also a method for Phreaking tapping out the number
- jwilk 7y ago> the tweet source confirms it was sent from the device I seem to recall that the source can be easily spoofed.
- jpindar 7y agoYeah, it looks to be easy enough; much like making a an actual IoT device, you don't have to write a complete Twitter app. When I think of something funny enough I might try it.
- isthisnametaken 7y agoWe did the same thing with my eldest when he was about 14 - confiscated phone, laptop, etc. He managed to get round it (at least until we realised) by using Facebook Messenger via the web browser on his Kindle.
- setr 7y agoI like the idea of it -- kids battling parental controls; I learned a decent amount from my electronics/wifi (they just took the whole router to work) being confiscated, like picking doors with credit cards and setting up another old router found in the garage. At school, everyone knew about VPNs and proxies, to circumvent site-blocking, and cd-cracks to bring in LAN games on USB Both TFA and your particular tales didn't amount to much, but the more intelligent the controls, the better the kid has to become to circumvent it :-)
- neverminder 7y agoWhere there's a will there's a way. Reminds me of the old days in the 90's when my old man used to take away our PC's power cable to "manage my computer addiction", so I made my own from an old stereo power cable and two nails. Good times.
- zaarn 7y agoApparently she tried with a Nintendo 3DS before it was also taken away.
- slics 7y agoAs a parent of Few Young kids (non teenagers) I have made it my mission to not give in to the social media BS. My kids will only get phones when they go to college. If they get a phone before then, it will be a dumb phone with no internet. Looked here and looks promising: https://tello.com https://tello.com For the others that say, we all get distracted, well then you might have no clue what distracted means to someone with a kid. You ask them to brush their teeth, they bring their toothbrush in the living room just to watch TV. Phone for a teenager it’s the worst thing a parent can do (outside of the emergency reasons)
- viraptor 7y agoHow do you plan to handle the social interactions? I expect they're going to be skipped on lots of invites / activities organised on platforms which are phone-only. Not a criticism of the idea - just curious what's your approach here.
- NullPrefix 7y ago>I expect they're going to be skipped on lots of invites / activities organised on platforms which are phone-only Isn't that the intention?
- viraptor 7y agoI read the intention as "limit the social media distraction", not as "make it harder to do things with other humans". There's lots of social activities you're either involved in via an online group, or you won't know what's going on. For example, planning for a canoe club I was a part of existed only on IM / FB group. FB is still available non-mobile, but WhatsApp is not.
- impostir 7y agoThat's pretty much what my parents did, and I have mixed feelings about it. I do think it was good up to high school age. I would have said some dumb things when I was twelve I would probably regret today. But, as a teenager, it felt like just another way my parents were trying to control me. I would say that if you block phones, you have to counterbalance it with some other way your teenager can have agency. It doesn't matter too much what it is, just let your teenager have some freedom.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoThe article once again shows that Twitter has instead of being peaceful and cooperative, opted to take the would be side of a Jerry Springer show and instigate a greater fight and argument. If there is ever a WWIII, Twitter will be proud to have been part of the argument/misunderstanding that started it. No other service exists that primarily connects people so they can trash talk each other. It might as well be described in their business plan as much as they do it.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoIt's uncannily similar to an old Monty Python sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
- beatgammit 7y agoAs a parent of young children, this honestly terrifies me. I know how addictive social media can be, and I'm trying to teach my kids how to set their own boundaries, but I don't know how to properly respond to problems caused by addiction. I don't believe in involuntary confiscation, but I may resort to that if my child loses my trust, and once I take something away, I lose whatever trust they have in me. Does anyone have any good resources for dealing with this type of problem constructively? I know building trust in the first place is important, I just don't know much about what works with older children/teenagers. My current approach would be to treat them like an adult and have them come up with their own disciplinary measures.
- bootsz 7y ago> its website confirms the refrigerator does have social media capabilities, and the tweet source confirms it was sent from the device. Imagine waking from a coma after 10 or 20 years and reading this in the news.