Does anyone else text someone else in your own home if they are in another room? Am I just too lazy to go talk to them? Are you like me?
What’s it like living in a giant mansion where you can’t hear each other everywhere?
More like going deaf, old, and getting harder to hear in the same room even much less the same house! Texting is easier sometimes but maybe I am lazy too. Especially if someone is outside in the yard.
I use Google Home Assistant to broadcast messages, e.g. “dinner’s ready”
I yell.
All the time. Usually because I am working from home and my husband has the dog snoring in his lap and doesn’t want to disturb him. Or I’m piled into bed with the dogs and don’t want to create a stir by getting up. Dogs govern a lot of my time lol.
I often send people pictures or articles on whatsapp while I’m talking to them, it’s just easier than going over to show them my phone. I definitely text if someone is out of speaking distance if it’s not urgent, stuff like “do you want X for dinner?”, that way they can get to it when it’s convenient.
Only when there’s a cat sleeping on someone’s lap
This is the correct answer.
All the damn time. If I’m I. The same room and we’re both awake, I speak, but if she’s asleep or I’m working and can’t escape from a vid meeting…. Signal it is.
For various reasons, my memory isn’t worth a damn, so there’s an added benefit of “yes, I told my wife that important thing” in the history
We live on one floor, with a bedroom, an office, a living room, and a kitchen. It’s definitely not that I’m too lazy to take the ten or twelve steps across the house lol
I have Philips hue lights throughout the house. My son is green, my daughter is purple and red is both. Sometimes I’m lazy and just turn the lights on and off instead of changing the color.
Colors for what?
My kid prefers to be texted for dinner. Knocking is iffy because of the ear buds.
As posted above, same here. We use the Intercom feature on a HomePod to call her down. She hates it because the whole point of AirPods Pro is so she can ignore everyone!
But then she would miss out on dinner, family movie night and other social interactions!
I’m pretty sure everyone is like someone out there. Except maybe that guy from that other post today who like, decapitated his father and put it on YouTube. I don’t know if there’s anybody like that guy.
Oh my god you are so right.
What is that?
We do this, too. Really convenient.
We have a Signal group chat, works really well for all kinds of things. Like “Dinner is ready” or “is anybody home?”
That’s awesome! So much more flexible than group text or whatever.
This kinda behavior irritates the hell outta me, but I’ve been told that’s unreasonable for larger homes, more sensible for smaller homes.
I think if it would take you less than sixty seconds to walk to me and talk to me, you should just do it.
takes me less then 20 sec to write to you
Yeah but that’s so lazy. Have a modicum of respect to speak to me face to face. There’s so much lost in communication when you lose facial expressions and intonation.
Plus, it’s not like it’s hard to just walk over, you’re not losing a great deal of time or energy.
Excellent word choice, I hear “modicum” so rarely.
Little things like this matter. I would work from home doing something that needs my focus and get a sms that the courier is close. I need my focus to finish tasks fast so I will send a message to someone who should be more available.
It is not lazy or lacking respect. Sometimes it is more efficient and confortable for anyone involved.
Now that kinda behavior makes more sense to me. Context does matter a lot here. I used to get text messages from an upstairs roommate about wanting to go party with some friends or ordering food on the weekend.
Like, sure, we can do this over text, but it will take you less than thirty seconds to walk to my door. Just do that. The whole conversation will be faster then
Depends on the size of the home I suppose. Tiny bungalow? Yeah, a little weird. Three-story? Not weird at all IMO.
My girfriend will text me when I am doing something noisy and she doesn’t want to get out of bed.
In the olden days we would just scream at the top of our lungs to talk to people in other rooms. I feel like texting captures the lazy spirit without the chaos.
We continue to yell. Tradition is important in my family.
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I’m trying to train the rest of our household to use our voice assistant intercom feature.
One of the kids hates that the intercom interrupts whatever she is doing, as far as she is concerned, she ignores everyone else and uses her noise-cancelling earbuds for a reason.
Before anyone asks, I have already trained them to not say anything personal within earshot of the home assistants.
I have already trained them to not say anything personal within earshot of the home assistants.
Yikes. Prisoner in their own home?
It’s a big reason I don’t want those things I’m my home. I know our phones are already doing it, but I don’t have to allow additional snooping mechanisms.
The local utility co tried to give me a free google thermostat. Nooooope.
Three decades ago, as a kid, the electric co-op put a device on our water heater that would limit energy to that specific device at times of high load. That was sensible, and had zero listening capabilities. It’s also as close as I want to get to (commercial) voice assistants.
Exactly right. There’s a bit of evidence that something like an Amazon device is worse about it than phones are too. I’m too lazy to go look it up but I’m pretty sure Amazon is always recording and storing human voices, or at least was at one time.
All the time
