{"id":14301,"date":"2024-05-01T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T08:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/its-not-stranger-danger-you-should-be-afraid-of-its-video-doorbell-derangement-syndrome-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T08:37:38","slug":"its-not-stranger-danger-you-should-be-afraid-of-its-video-doorbell-derangement-syndrome-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/its-not-stranger-danger-you-should-be-afraid-of-its-video-doorbell-derangement-syndrome-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not stranger danger you should be afraid of, it\u2019s video doorbell derangement syndrome | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Symptoms include paranoia, anxiety and a compulsion to snoop on your neighbours. I\u2019m not judging \u2013 I\u2019ve had a brush with it myself<\/p>\n

One of my many guilty pleasures is lurking on my former home\u2019s Facebook group. The New York apartment complex, which houses the population of a small town, is classified as a naturally occurring retirement community<\/a>, which means there are a lot of people in the group with time and energy to devote to petty feuds. The gossip is unrivalled and often a little unhinged. At one point there was a heated debate about birth control for pigeons<\/a> that resulted in at least one person getting banned.<\/p>\n

Recently, a mania of sorts has swept the group. An influential neighbour rather belatedly learned about video doorbells. When he bought one it set off a spate of other people buying the devices \u2013 and obsessively monitoring them to check for package thieves. Every other Facebook post now seems to be a photo of some hapless stranger taken by a video doorbell with a panicked caption along the lines of \u201cstranger danger\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nSymptoms include paranoia, anxiety and a compulsion to snoop on your neighbours. I\u2019m not judging \u2013 I\u2019ve had a brush with it myself
\nOne of my many guilty pleasures is lurking on my former home\u2019s Facebook group. The New York apartment complex, which houses the population of a small town, is classified as a naturally occurring retirement community, which means there are a lot of people in the group with time and energy to devote to petty feuds. The gossip is unrivalled and often a little unhinged. At one point there was a heated debate about birth control for pigeons that resulted in at least one person getting banned.
\nRecently, a mania of sorts has swept the group. An influential neighbour rather belatedly learned about video doorbells. When he bought one it set off a spate of other people buying the devices \u2013 and obsessively monitoring them to check for package thieves. Every other Facebook post now seems to be a photo of some hapless stranger taken by a video doorbell with a panicked caption along the lines of \u201cstranger danger\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Symptoms include paranoia, anxiety and a compulsion to snoop on your neighbours. I\u2019m not judging \u2013 I\u2019ve had a brush with it myself One of my many guilty pleasures is lurking on my former home\u2019s Facebook group. The New York apartment complex, which houses the population of a small town, is classified as a naturally …<\/p>\n

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