They passed out hologram cards. From one perspective you saw a friendly looking teenage Asian girl with glasses and a caption that said "You think it's her," the other perspective showed a Caucasian man in his 40's with a black shirt, a light beard, some awesome leopard hair, and a caption that said "but it's really him. On the back side of this card the were two bullet point columns, one of them said "Online Resources," the other said "Online Threats."
Seeing this card inspired me to post one of my best facebook statuses to date, I said something along the lines of, "I wonder if the girl they photographed for that online protection hologram card has a facebook account." When I post facebook statuses I see it as a challenge to see how many "likes" and comment I can get, this got a small handful which makes me happy. The thing about this card was that facebook was totally what this card was getting at but it wouldn't be upfront about it because whatever committee developed that card knew that if the card directly attacked facebook the card wouldn't be taken seriously, although nevertheless I don't think it was taken seriously and I'll explain why.
Under the online resources column there were five bullet points that said, (now that I think about I'll reproduce it)
- Brainteasers
- Math Games
- Art Games
- Pioneer Library
- Homework Help
If some committee formed by the state legislature thinks that Art Games or Math Games are going to help people withstand the temptation of using identity theft world or the cyberbullying world that is facebook then they are what I call superficial.
Although I must be fair and admit shouldn't be entirely laughed at, today I was my school's website and there was a link to participate in an event and it asked for my username and password, I wasn't sure if I should put that down so I didn't, later I started writing this blog post and I saw under the Online threats column there was a bullet point that said 'Phishing Scams," I didn't know what that was so I used the ctrl + t function, went to google, typed in "phishing scams" went to wikipedia (I probably should've just skipped google and gone straight to wikipedia) and it said that a phishing scam is when a website that looks trusting asks for personal information, I then thought, "wow, that kind of happened to me today," although to be honest, I'm 99.97% sure that the website was legit and I was just being paranoid. I think the origin of this card was the state legislature felt the had to do something about a kid in the state being cyberbullied. This card felt like the product of some old out-of-touch men living in the world of 2003.
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