just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months agoAnonymous texts threaten college students with prison time if they vote: reportwww.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down11
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minus-squareGladiusB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoYou also have to consider a twenty year old and just running with the possibility. They don’t care if it’s necessarily true. They don’t have enough experience to know it’s probably not true.
minus-squareGood_morning@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI suspect more people were highly suspicious of any text from an unknown number 20 years ago.
minus-squareGladiusB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoCaller ID was not in everyone’s phone 20 years ago. There were a lot more random cold calls.
minus-squareGood_morning@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoCalls sure, but texts are different, at that point you paid per text, people you texted you typically knew, spam was mostly still calls
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoWe are really failing our children then.
You also have to consider a twenty year old and just running with the possibility. They don’t care if it’s necessarily true. They don’t have enough experience to know it’s probably not true.
I suspect more people were highly suspicious of any text from an unknown number 20 years ago.
Caller ID was not in everyone’s phone 20 years ago. There were a lot more random cold calls.
Calls sure, but texts are different, at that point you paid per text, people you texted you typically knew, spam was mostly still calls
We are really failing our children then.