The times when I was much younger, I can recall calling people at random at 3-4am and telling them that there was an elephant in the back yard and it was flying… and you could do that with anonymity because back then you didn’t had caller id.
Let’s see, we didn’t have caller id, call block, call back or any of that stuff. Hell, we didn’t even have 911 then…
So the other day I was on Reddit and I noticed this funny graphic pop-up on the fact someone got texted a message, and it was illustrating how someone sent a message to the wrong number and it reminded me of another ‘funny’ I had had with my dad.
And here’s what I’d like to get to…
A couple of years ago before ‘sexting‘ was even a word, I was sitting there with my dad and he got a text message. He opened up his phone, and there they were. A set of boobies from a young girl… From that point on we both realized that making a ‘wrong number’ could be really bad now.
The idea of sending a picture of someone ‘nude’ to another cell phone number is a big deal now, and it’s illegal; because it’s basically porn distribution… But what I found humorous about the text message is how funny, and offensive it could be.
Funny in the sense that whoever sent that message was a complete mental reject; so bad that the first 3 words would make it amazing if the person who sent it had an IQ at all. And yet, was still obtuse enough to call someone, or refer to someone, as their ‘nigga’ and they weren’t even sure that they had the right person!
I recall a clip in the movie Total Recall where Arnold Schwarzenegger took a video call and it was someone in a towel; she was nude and then she realizes that she had the wrong number and hangs up. Right now, that’d be a felony [if it was reported].
As we get closer to the age of doing video calls/chat with others, I’m reminded how unaware people can be and how brazin they can be when they don’t have to ‘actually’ stand in front of someone and do those same actions. It’s easy to stand there with a device and do something with it you wouldn’t normally do [morally].
Like call someone a ‘nigga’ or take a picture of your ‘junk’ and send it to someone…
But from the screenshot text in this post, the reply is priceless. While the other person could’ve simply replied back saying, ‘wrong number’. They took the high road, the very high road, and replied from a perspective that the other person would understand, how stupid they really are by the actions they’ve just taken.
I’d speculate the future question is, if texting a picture of someone nude to someone else is a felony, how long is it going to be before someone sends a text to someone else, that’s ccompletely offensive, and new laws/technology has to be put in place to recognize language and pictures and filter it ‘for the greater good’?
Thank you,
Larry Henry Jr.
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