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Don't hit 'send' until you can walk the line
Posted Wednesday, October 8, 2008, at 10:46 AM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
Have you hard about a new feature one of the Web email providers is offering? If you sign up for it, during specific hours (late, no doubt) they will require you to pass a sobriety test before they will send your message.
This is a brilliant idea! When I moved to Lower Alabama to take an editing position, I went by myself while my husband stayed back with the kids to sell our house and settle my mother's estate. One weekend, I would make the 6-hour drive to Tennessee and the next weekend, he and the kids would drive down to LA. One weekend, they didn't come. My husband forgot it was his weekend to travel and he was having a big dinner and good company at his brother's house, while I and my cat were huddled in my tiny cottage, all alone. So -- Mrs. Ruinite Bianco and I had a pity party in my tiny little cottage and the emptier the bottle got, the angrier I got. Finally, I made the mistake of sending him an email telling him exactly what I thought and how I felt. The fact that we are still married after my husband read this email is proof that 1. He really loves me, and 2. He knew it was all his fault anyway. But there was a rough patch there and I blame it all on the wine, the whine and the fact that there were no email sobriety tests at the time. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Tasha the Cat, 1993-2008
Welcome to the voting booth...
Scott who?
Don't hit 'send' until you can walk the line
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The same should probably go for text messaging!
Here's the actual information about the feature:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/ne...
I sure am glad i'm not in charge of my own actions, now I have someone else to watch and make sure I don't screw up.
I checked out the link... neat feature! We definitely need something like that for texting as well!
You have even more of my respect.
When I've posted something unusually stupid,I've let people think it was written by my human er...I mean cat.
Yeah,sometimes it's hard to distinguish the results of a cat walking across the keyboard and a human who's sipped a bit too much of the Recipe.
This new feature could also be a plot by math teachers to improve our arithmetic.
Since technological aids like calculators and spell-check could compensate for some of our ignorance and befuddlement,maybe we should be asked questions requiring critical thinking and horse sense.
Those are harder to fake,say more about whether we are thinking rationally and might stall us long enough to prevent even more regrettable messages.
I understand that the QWERTY keyboard was developed to make typing so difficult that typewriters wouldn't hit the keys so fast that mistakes were made before they could be prevented.
This might be the modern successor to that attempt.
When previews and moderators aren't enough,brain teasers might do the trick.
(Imagine if we extended a similar idea to the operation of cars,credit cards,weaponry - or voting booths.
"Since we got that new testing system put on our car,we use a third less gas,our auto insurance is lower and the kids' grades have shot up." )
Late nights and weekends are a good start but this might do well enough to be available all the time.
I sure am glad i'm not in charge of my own actions, now I have someone else to watch and make sure I don't screw up.
-- Posted by sparkle on Wed, Oct 8, 2008, at 12:37 PM
You don't have to worry about screwing up because, in today's society, you're not responsible for your own actions anyway.
That's right Thom. I forgot about that. Now I don't have to worry about losing the cork.
I am surprised this is such a big problem that the ISP would get involved. Not sure what that says about our society.
Hmmmm "Nanny Net" for adults :>)
Everyone should use parental controls on computers and cell phones, Verizon offers that feature now and you can activate the controls online!
If you have a teenager (under age) that forwards inappropriate material they received back to the person (their friend) and no one else it's of (just to let their friend know its being sent around) they will prosecute. States custody until the age of 18, and make you register as a sex offender after that. That is, if your still around by the time you are supposed to go to court.
To bad you can't blame everything on the wine, it can go well beyond embarrassing yourself. Like they say, No good deed goes unpunished!