{"id":1491,"date":"2009-03-23T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2016-12-29T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:08:29","slug":"send-dont-be-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/send-dont-be-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"SEND: Don&#8217;t Be Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Please, please!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><font color=\"red\" size=\"5\"><b>Don&#8217;t Be Dumb!<\/b><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Cell phone or email or blog or Facebook or MySpace or Twitter or whatever: <a href='http:\/\/smartwomenstupidcomputers.com\/blog\/family-campains-against-sexting-daughter-hung-herself\/'>Beware the <i>Send<\/i> Button!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\">&#8220;The moment you push &#8216;send,&#8217;<br \/>\nthe damage is done.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>The link will take you to the tragic story about Jessica Logan, who took a non-clothes cell photo of herself and sent it to her boyfriend. In a terrible cascade of forwards and resends, hundreds (if not thousands) of people received it. And Jessica was verbally pummeled face-to-face as well as via phone, text, email, Facebook, MySpace, and who knows what other medium.<\/p>\n<p>Things like this make me mad. And sad.<\/p>\n<p>Our technology allows us to do so much dumb (and worse) stuff on a whim. And regret later.<\/p>\n<p>She did something very foolish in taking that photo of herself. She compounded her error by texting that photo to someone else. At that point, a character flaw or a bad attitude or a wrongly-entered recipient or a wrong key pressed or another foolish choice &#8212; and the original recipient sent it on.<\/p>\n<p>And the process was repeated. And repeated. And repeated.<\/p>\n<p>Have <b>you<\/b> learned the lesson now?<\/p>\n<p>Message to Albert and Cynthia Logan: May you find comforting grace in Jesus Christ. As a dad, father-in-law, and grandpa, my heart aches for your daughter&#8230;and for you. 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Cell phone or email or blog or Facebook or MySpace or Twitter or whatever: Beware the Send Button! &#8220;The moment you push &#8216;send,&#8217; the damage is done.&#8221; The link will take you to the tragic story about Jessica Logan, who took a non-clothes cell photo of herself and sent it &#8230; <a title=\"SEND: Don&#8217;t Be Dumb\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/send-dont-be-dumb\/\" aria-label=\"More on SEND: Don&#8217;t Be Dumb\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,13,20],"tags":[428,644,673,610],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-noah","category-tech-stuff","category-youve-been-warned","tag-cell-phone","tag-laws","tag-teenager","tag-texting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-o3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}