I just watched a TikTok about how people used to plug in things to their light sockets when electricity was first becoming popular. And they kept calling the plug a light socket, what rule says it’s not a plug that screws in? And why shouldn’t plugs screw in? We have material science to make plugs and cables hard enough that if you kick the wire it still doesn’t come out. Electrical connections should be more secure. That’s all I’m saying.

  • Bob
    34•11 months ago

    I can see multiple reasons:

    • trip hasard
    • could break the cord or the device if it gets yanked
    • less convenient, slower
    • it would tangle/twist the cable
    • credit crazy
      28•11 months ago

      To ad to the first 2 points when a cable is broken often from getting tripped from the cable it’s now a electrocution hazard meanwhile with the sockets we have now when you trip from a cable it’s just unplugs and there’s no risk of electrocution