The Young and the Wireless
This is the title of an article I saw in Time Magazine's August 1 issue. Apparently, Walt Disney Internet Group, among other companies, are developing cell phones aimed at preteens. It comes loaded up the ass (not literally, now that wouldn't feel too good) with parental controls that prevent the preteens from dialing or receiving calls from numbers not parent-approved, some come with a GPfuckingS, so parents can literally track their kids - kidjack instead of lojack.
Well, folks, I don't even know where to start. I'm going to give the adult-mandatory lecture that when I was a preteen there was no cable TV, no PC, no CD, no MP3, no IPod, no cell phone, no fucking nothing. I sure as hell didn't have my parents following every move on a GPS-loaded phone (don't think for a minute they wouldn't have used that bad boy if given the opportunity, they did everything they could to try and control me, but in a very nice, polite, southern way :op).
Is this REALLY necessary?? Does a fucking 10 year-old need a cell phone? Shit, there are so many controls on it they can't really enjoy it anyway!! I guess from an emergency standpoint it's not a completely unfathomable idea, if they got in trouble (i.e. someone tried to hurt them or kidnap them) they could call, or if their soccer game got canceled after school and they needed to be picked up sooner, fine. I still just don't think it's that urgent for a kid to have one. And you KNOW as soon as they come out, with those catchy little commercials that all the kids will see, they will demand one from their parents or they will hold their collective breaths until they turn blue. But mooooooooommmmmmmmmm, Joey has one and all the other kids are getting one and I'll be the laughing stock of the entire school mommmmmm and then I'll get a complex and never be fully adjusted and it'll be all your fault mommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
What do you think, is this is a good thing or a bad thing?
Well, folks, I don't even know where to start. I'm going to give the adult-mandatory lecture that when I was a preteen there was no cable TV, no PC, no CD, no MP3, no IPod, no cell phone, no fucking nothing. I sure as hell didn't have my parents following every move on a GPS-loaded phone (don't think for a minute they wouldn't have used that bad boy if given the opportunity, they did everything they could to try and control me, but in a very nice, polite, southern way :op).
Is this REALLY necessary?? Does a fucking 10 year-old need a cell phone? Shit, there are so many controls on it they can't really enjoy it anyway!! I guess from an emergency standpoint it's not a completely unfathomable idea, if they got in trouble (i.e. someone tried to hurt them or kidnap them) they could call, or if their soccer game got canceled after school and they needed to be picked up sooner, fine. I still just don't think it's that urgent for a kid to have one. And you KNOW as soon as they come out, with those catchy little commercials that all the kids will see, they will demand one from their parents or they will hold their collective breaths until they turn blue. But mooooooooommmmmmmmmm, Joey has one and all the other kids are getting one and I'll be the laughing stock of the entire school mommmmmm and then I'll get a complex and never be fully adjusted and it'll be all your fault mommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
What do you think, is this is a good thing or a bad thing?
posted by Miss_Vicki at 6:40 AM
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