Say thank you and please: Should you be polite with Alexa and the Google Assistant?

Jeremy Bloom and his polite' family sometimes tell Amazon Alexa to zip it.' Jeremy Bloom has a polite family. But after a few frustratingly failed attempts in which Bloom politely asked Alexa to turn down the volume at dinner time, he shouted instead, "Alexa, zip it." "To our surprise, the music immediately stopped," says the Pittsburgh-area commercial lender. "We got a huge laugh out of that. And while not the best lesson in manners for the kids, it is common for us to tell Alexa to'zip it' now."