For Seattle Women Called Alexa, Frustrating To Share Name With Amazon Device (seattletimes.com)

Reader reifman writes: Since Amazon introduced the Alexa-enabled Echo device in 2014, the jokes have become so omnipresent that Alexa Philbeck, 29, briefly considered changing, or at least obscuring, her name. The Seattle Times speaks to four women unfortunately called Alexa in a town that may soon be known as Seamazon.

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Yeah right

[110010001000]

Give it a break Amazon PR, no one uses Alexa.

Re:Yeah right

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

I seriously doubt that...

"Alexa... How many people use Amazon Echo? Really? Only one? But I have one...."

Re:From TFA

[Kergan]

Seems a lot better than annoying Alexas and Siris.

Bezos would be more appropriate

[Anonymous Coward]

"Hey, Bezos! Turn on my light and get me a movie!"
'Lights on and how is the movie AI?"

"Hey Bezos! I wanna watch Doctor Who!"
"What season?"

""Hey Bezos! I need groceries and a blowjob!"

"Grocery order coming up and please select what sex toy you want."

Think about it. The ability to act like your ordering a billionaire around. Just think of the marketing potential!

Re:Strange

[Anonymous Coward]

They could just shorten your name from "Elizabeth" to "Beth", instead.

Re:Did reifman fuck up the links in a 2-sentence s

[Highdude702]

You don't even realize that you HAVE driven about 50% of the intelligent people to other sites do you?

Alexa Philbeck ...

[PPH]

... could change her name to Cortana. There's not much chance of a namespace collision with that one.