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I don’t use any Alexa devices so this might just be an unknown to me, but this seems oddly staged. Is it common for children to “ask Alexa for a challenge” like
by octagons 5y ago
I don’t use any Alexa devices so this might just be an unknown to me, but this seems oddly staged. Is it common for children to “ask Alexa for a challenge” like that? What other “challenges” could Alexa offer? Obviously the suggestion to play with an electrical outlet is concerning if this is real, but the context seems very unlikely to me.
- _xnmw 5y agoThe BBC article provides more context: apparently children were playing an activity where they were doing physical challenges. > She said: "We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a [physical education] teacher on YouTube earlier. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383
- bluefirebrand 5y agoI was thinking on this too. Aside from a select few internet challenges that went viral for a good cause (the ice bucket challenge comes to mind), most of the challenges I've heard about are because people were getting hurt. Recently the milk crate challenge, but I recall some others as well. Something about kids eating as much raw cinnamon powder as they can? Now, I'm definitely growing out of touch with what the youths are doing online, but is this "search for and do internet challenges" really a thing they do for fun? If so, is it something we should encourage?