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Mobile Device Amber Alerts: Do You Pay Them Any Heed?
June 02, 2019, 03:39 PM
12131Mobile Device Amber Alerts: Do You Pay Them Any Heed?
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June 03, 2019, 09:45 AM
SpinZoneI ignore the amber alerts but i do pay attention to the silver alerts in case its about me.
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June 03, 2019, 10:07 AM
sns3guppyI pay attention, understanding that there's very little chance I'll encounter the person or vehicle.
June 03, 2019, 10:07 AM
ensigmaticThanks for participating, y'all.
The majority response, nearly 70% either having Amber Alerts disabled or simply ignoring them, mirrors what I did and have done.
I'd left them enabled for the longest time. Eventually I realized, as one or two other respondents noted, they always occurred when I was either in no position to pay them any heed (work, driving, etc.) or I was home for the evening and wasn't going anywhere.
Bottom line: The alerts simply unnecessarily raised my stress level. So I disabled them. I don't feel that's selfishness, but reason. Why have something enabled that serves no purpose other than to freak me out on occasion?
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PerceptionMine get turned off as soon as I get a new device. I would probably appreciate them if they were more localized and less obnoxious. A notification that I can click on would be awesome. Getting woken up in the middle of the night for an alert 200 miles away is not.
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"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." June 03, 2019, 12:11 PM
arfmelI got fed up with receiving alerts from all over Texas, areas 150-500 miles from Jerkwater, and shut them off.
June 03, 2019, 12:14 PM
parabellumI don't get that shit on my phone, but if I did, yeah, I would ignore them.
This trend of making and naming laws after some individual and all of this "Amber alerts" or "Maddie's Call" horse shit makes me want to puke.
OP, what is the point of inserting comical answers into your poll? What point is there in offering a poll that's flawed by its construction? How are you going to interpret the results you get?
I don't understand why some of you guys do this.
June 03, 2019, 12:20 PM
ensigmaticquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
OP, what is the point of inserting comical answers into your poll?
Seemed to be traditional, here. I'll forego it in future polls.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher June 03, 2019, 12:32 PM
parabellumTraditional? No. Bad trend? Most definitely.
June 03, 2019, 01:13 PM
StorminNorminMy phone must set somehow to only get an alert for the area I am physically in. For example I live in Austin and only get alerts for that area when I am home, but if I travel to Houston I will get a Houston one while I am there.
I do pay attention and I keep an eye out for the vehicle. I actually came across the vehicle for a suspected child abduction once and was able to get police to the vehicle and take the driver into custody.
NRA Benefactor Life Member June 04, 2019, 08:28 AM
henryazThe first emergency alert I got when they became available on the iPhone was a weather alert for a severe dust storm, for an area (suburb?) south of Phoenix about 100 miles from me (Wickenburg is 60 miles north of central Phoenix). All alerts disabled right away. And the screeching sound they make could wake the dead.
When in doubt, mumble June 04, 2019, 10:39 AM
P220 SmudgeI’ve left them enabled on my phone, but will probably turn them off now. For whatever reason, I get alerts from all over the country, and never anything remotely close to me. Yesterday I got one for somewhere in Montana. I’m near Seattle. That’s been the closest one by far. Just doesn’t seem worth the stress.
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June 04, 2019, 12:31 PM
bertoTurned off as soon as it became a thing.
I get text alerts from local agencies. A friend actually found a missing person due to those alerts.