just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoAnonymous texts threaten college students with prison time if they vote: reportwww.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1385arrow-down11
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minus-squareGladiusB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month 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-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoWe are really failing our children then.
minus-squareGood_morning@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoI suspect more people were highly suspicious of any text from an unknown number 20 years ago.
minus-squareGladiusB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoCaller ID was not in everyone’s phone 20 years ago. There were a lot more random cold calls.
minus-squareGood_morning@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoCalls sure, but texts are different, at that point you paid per text, people you texted you typically knew, spam was mostly still calls
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.
We are really failing our children then.
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