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14 Bright Side Readers Shared Their Weirdest Stories With Virtual Assistants and We Couldn’t Decide If We Should Laugh or Cry

It’s hard not to notice how “smart” devices have become nowadays. Although technological innovations have made our lives easier, it often happens that they actually do exactly the opposite. And if you think about it, most of those times, what they actually do is manage to make us laugh.
At Bright Side, we’ve previously seized the opportunity to share funny stories with our readers related to virtual assistants, and now it’s the readers turn to share them. We’ve compiled the best comments from our readers and listed them below. At the end of the article you’ll find a bonus about a rather weird experience that happened before smart devices became popular.
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Bonus: Tech from the ’90s rears its ugly head again.
Which of these stories made you more scared? What is the weirdest experience you’ve had with a virtual assistant? Tell us in detail in the comment section!
Comments
Someday smart devices are going to do things we won't be so happy about ?
Haha the grandpa scaring the others is hilarious
I own as little electronics as possible. I hear people talk about how they'd open an ad maybe one time, and suddenly every ad is somehow related to that. They do the same with hearing too. I would never own any kind of Alexa/Siri home device.

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