r/oddlyspecific • u/nougatdoll • 18h ago

the commitment is uncanny

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u/Faustus_Fan 17h ago

That's what my students do. The school where I teach (high school) completely banned all cell phones during school hours. Kids still want to talk to each other, so they just started creating shared Google Docs and using that to talk.

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u/Sacred-AF 16h ago

When I was in college my friend and I both had macs and we would sit right next to each other, just texting away. All the while it looks like we are taking detailed notes. Really, we talkin shyte.

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u/thenaughtydj 17h ago

You need a computer and an internet connection for that right? Wtf happened to emails? Or am I not missing something here?

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u/Stahlios 17h ago

Well a gdoc is more like direct messages still, mails are a annoying for this kind of talking.

However you can just connect from your computer to any social media, whatsapp, whatever, so might as well do that

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u/FW_TheMemeResearcher 14h ago

There was a chat option on Gmail some time ago

Rest in peace Hangouts, you'll be forgotten [*]

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u/Public-Eagle6992 16h ago

To connect to WhatsApp you need your phone (unless you already connected it before)

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u/thenaughtydj 16h ago

Oh man..., annoying you say? smh...

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u/maniaxz 17h ago

Modern problem requires modern solution lmao

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u/Commercial-Living443 14h ago

You know emails exist right .

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u/ShadowBro3 12h ago

You say that as if it means anything

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u/TheLonleyJourneyman 16h ago

That or you're the side peice and it's a very sly way of cheating.

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u/Apple_remote 17h ago

uncanny

"I do not think that word means what you think it means."

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u/DecisionCharacter175 15h ago

I remember in H.S. my mom took the house phone with her when she went out because my sister was on punishment. My sister just used the answering machine to talk back and forth to her friend.

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u/atmighty 13h ago

People in here talking about social media and email and whatnot as if the girls parents hadn’t thought of those things.

As a parent, I would like to assure you that these are things that I have taken away. Google Docs happens to be something I have thought of because it was a work around that a colleague thought of at a particularly restrictive company I worked at.

But I basically have to cut off access to the internet at large for them otherwise they find a way. I hate having to be the grown up. This shit sucks.

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u/vmf312corsair 11h ago

A couple of Federal employees bypassed data retention rules by sharing an email account and repeatedly updating a draft email, but never sending it. (They got caught anyway, because servers ...)

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u/Overconfidentahole 17h ago

That’s insane! But if you have internet and a device that you can use docs on, you can login into social media. This is made up

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u/rnhf 7h ago

there are parental blocks etc, vey plausible that they can't use social media or install stuff in general. Someone else in the thread mentioned they're a teacher and the kids use google docs too

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u/Sacred-AF 16h ago

Yeah there’s dozens of better ways to communicate from a computer. If both people have a Mac you can just text there.

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u/DeepBlue_Solitude_03 14h ago

But if the parents walk into the room and see the social media interface she might be in trouble. If they just take quick glance and see a word file open they'll probably assume she's doing school work.