I stepped into a 250sqt room fully furnished with exhaustion in face and smelly body odor which I could barely stand. Then, G pointed where the bathroom was located. I excused myself, washing my face cause it was like I came from a coal mine. Couple minutes later, G approached me and spontaneously said,"Do you want to meet my girlfriend?"

I was slightly puzzled cause I assumed G was living by himself. I said "no" in an instant. I mean it would be okay, but we sort of met through this dating application and I thought he was single. He looked at me amused and then he said,

"Alexa, switch on the lights!" He said

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My face turned red and I was just more surprised. As someone who taped her webcam and avoid CCTV as much as possible, entering a house with Alexa is like the worse nightmare.

"Girl, what did you get yourself into?" I told to myself while unpacking my rucksack and getting a shower.

Again, as usual I reported this particular events to Z, then we got into our talks about alexa.Well,maybe next time I'd make rules to never visit a house with this little round shaped"evil".

That night,I was too tired to care about Alexa. I just spread myself on the bed and rest among the pillows. However, hearing alexa kept waking us up at 7:10 (cause that's the time he goes to work)and even answering some of G's questions drove my curiosity as to why he owns it. Obviously, I didn't ask him in the place where there's her on it.

Most of the time during my stay, I was just inside the room with Alexa. I tried to not speak a thing, although when I told this tale to Hive account@dedicatedguy he said, I should have spoken with her.

There were times that I forgot Alexa was there.And I would discuss couple of philosophical topics or just something that I care about. Finger crossed, she would not listen or care about my opinion on the government or matters surrounding it. Also, we both invented a sarcastic reminder due my ear was blocked that time- gosh, I was speaking as if G was in the room across of mine. He would then say,

" Alexa lower your volume" and we both laughed.

During our evening stroll, G explained that as a busy person, he would have no time to write schedules or keep in track his meetings on a paper. Alexa makes things easier, She could track schedules more efficient and reliable. On a another note, she wouldn't complain in which he remarked, sort of the best part of it.

Then, I came across this post Are we living in and Orwellian future? by Hive account@conradt in which he wrote,

You never know who could be listening

Recently there has been some news about how a couple had their private conversation recorded by their Alexa device, which was then sent to one of their employees. In this case it seems and innocent mistake, but it makes you wonder what would happen if the use of your Alexa rights got into the wrong hands? Could they have access to your private conversations?

I could only hope Alexa wasn't hearing my stuff cause I tried to lessen my monologue habit in there. I was only talking when G's around the room. I am still somewhat indecisive about my stance on Alexa. I know it makes things easier but having someone as a third person when you want to share something only for the two of you, it's sort of invading the privacy and to my lack of wording- It was creepy as well.