Ring camera doorbells. Dumbest invention ever.

@SW-User doorbells are fine. I'm talking about the RING ones with a camera on, every time someone comes near your house it switches on the camera and alerts your phone so you can watch who is outside your house.

@OhIsMe ohh those. Nest or something like that. All my family have some form of it. Lol. I think some of them have disabled the ring because it annoys them.

@OhIsMe Of course what was I thinking. I just can’t imagine a world where a camera doorbell kept me from doing what I wanted.

@Notladylike I think it's a slow burn. You start out independent and making your own choices, then the situation slowly changes you because you're trying to avoid any conflict.

@OhIsMe Yeah I can imagine it eats away at you over time I guess.

@LowBorn I'm happy that you don't know what the Ring camera doorbells are. This pleases me.

@OhIsMe I do know what they are.

@GLITTER lol I literally said this to her, that I'd turn up in a mask and a baseball cap with a KFC and be like "hello I'm your deliveroo" but I think usually they don't do hugs or go inside.

@OhIsMe we’ll unfortunately there was a problem with the payment 😬

@GLITTER hooottttt 🤤

@deadgerbil see below

@OhIsMe I just read it. It's a piece of technology that is open to misuse

For me, I go for runs in the middle of the night so I'd probably be questioned all the time by family about why I'm going so late. That would be the extent of it for me as I'm already dismissive of questions that I deem to be annoying. I can't relate to the situation of having to answer to a toxic spouse, and that would sound like a hostage situation. That behavior will be nipped in the bud as soon as it arises.

And because of me not having those problems, I'd be able to fully enjoy camera footage of any porch pirates stealing stuff from me

@bijouxbroussard no, we already have big doors and phones 😭

@InOtterWords you're feeling trapped at home and want to talk to someone about it, so you invite a friend over. As she arrives your phone rings and it's him

"Why is she over? I don't like her. Why didn't you tell me she was coming. I'm coming home she's a bad influence on you"

You decide the next day to go out to visit someone, your phone rings

"Where are you going?"

You decide to leave in the middle of the night while he's asleep so you can avoid his temper, you open the door quietly so as not to wake him, but then you hear the notification on his phone as the doorbell camera informs him someone is by the front door.

@DDonde these are now totally useless for 75% of the population, but at least they can't be used as coercive control.