Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone

Fifteen-year-old resorts to drastic measures after action taken ‘so I’d pay more attention to my surroundings’

Kari Paul in San Francisco
Tue 13 Aug 2019 23.48 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Aug 2019 15.29 BST

A resourceful teenager has taken the rise of increasingly powerful smart home devices to its logical conclusion – tweeting from her family’s smart fridge after her mother confiscated her phone.

The 15-year-old Ariana Grande fan known only as “Dorothy” was barred from using her phone but managed to find a number of innovative ways to reach her thousands of followers – a handheld Nintendo device, a Wii U gaming console and, finally, her family’s LG Smart Refrigerator.

dorothy 🏹
@thankunext327

I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my Mom confiscated all of my electronics again.

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12:43 PM - Aug 8, 2019

Link to tweet

Dorothy, who declined to share her last name, says her mother disciplined her two weeks ago after she got too distracted while cooking and caused a fire.

“She took all my tech so I’d pay more attention to my surroundings,” said the teen, who messaged the Guardian from her cousin’s iPad because she was still facing a tech ban. “I felt mortified! I was worried because I’ve been bored all summer and Twitter passes the time for me.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/13/teen-smart-fridge-twitter-grounded

[Frustratedlady]

1. I haven't had a decent conversation with my great-grandkids in a couple of years.

Their cells are like a permanent extension of their hands. At least they know how to type.

Now, we have to worry about fridges? Sheesh!

[louis-t]

2. Our future leaders.

Now THAT is a creative solution to a problem.

[sdfernando]

3. Sure, but one would hope that the parents would take it as a warning

and also everyone else. There are big drawback to the "internet of everything" devices.

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/tr/security/news/internet-of-things/high-tech-homes-get-smarter

[Javaman]

4. "I've been bored all summer and Twitter passes the time for me."

Being Bored Can Be Good for You—If You Do It Right. Here’s How

https://time.com/5480002/benefits-of-boredom/

If you’re waiting for brilliance to strike, try getting bored first. That’s the takeaway of a study published recently in the journal Academy of Management Discoveries, which found that boredom can spark individual productivity and creativity.

In the study, people who had gone through a boredom-inducing task — methodically sorting a bowl of beans by color, one by one — later performed better on an idea-generating task than peers who first completed an interesting craft activity. (The task: to come up with excuses for being late that wouldn’t make someone look bad.) The bored folks outperformed the artists both in terms of idea quantity and quality, as ranked by objective outsiders who assigned uniqueness scores to each one.

Those findings are likely no surprise to Sandi Mann, a senior psychology lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire in the U.K. Mann is the author of The Upside of Downtime: Why Boredom Is Good, and a proponent of embracing the emotion, negative connotations and all.

Here’s why being bored can be a good thing for your mind, imagination and productivity, and how to do it right.

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