Techno savvy Hookers
So a cousin and her husband were over recently and they were trying to explain the concept of craigslist to my mother. One would think that a person with a masters in health science would be able to grasp the concept readily enough, but one would be wrong. She is the type of person who has a minor panic attack any time something she hasn't seen before pops up on the screen. She will yell across the house like some sort of national emergency had just transpired and then ill walk in the room read whatever it is that is on her screen and nine times out of ten click on the "x" button to close the window.
This is the woman who must have heard the word blog on the television a hundred thousand times in the last year (slight exaggeration of each news outlet doing the discovery of blogging story) and every time she hears the word she says, "What the hell is a blog?" Then when I explain what a blog is or what facebook or myspace is she will say, "Why would anyone want to do that?" She has a sort of odd black hole in her head where almost all technology knowledge goes to disappear forever. (Though any time she ask me a question and I answer, "I don't know" she will say, "well cant you just google it or something?")
Anyway this is bit far from the original point that we were talking about Craigslist and we were finally able to get across the idea of a sort of world wide classified ads.
My cousins husband was trying to explain that he uses it to find acting roles as an extra or in student films. He then had to explain that one must read the classifieds carefully in that some of the ones listed under "talent" are not so much acting gigs as the opportunity to star in an adult film.
My mother was somewhat shocked. I then had to report on my own investigation into the craiglist personals section. Holy Techno savvy Hookers Batman. These people barely go to the trouble of pretending to be looking for a normal date. That is until the cops got techno savvy too! The smoking gun was there! I, of course, could not help perusing the mugshots. (It looks like they took number 1 in her bathrobe and I have no idea what number 7 is smiling about, but she kind of scares me.)
This puts me in mind of the saying you get what you pay for. They used a free internet personals service, that is almost like asking all the cops in the area who are hooked up to the internet, to knock on ones door. Remember you techno flesh dealers it takes money to make money.
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This is the woman who must have heard the word blog on the television a hundred thousand times in the last year (slight exaggeration of each news outlet doing the discovery of blogging story) and every time she hears the word she says, "What the hell is a blog?" Then when I explain what a blog is or what facebook or myspace is she will say, "Why would anyone want to do that?" She has a sort of odd black hole in her head where almost all technology knowledge goes to disappear forever. (Though any time she ask me a question and I answer, "I don't know" she will say, "well cant you just google it or something?")
Anyway this is bit far from the original point that we were talking about Craigslist and we were finally able to get across the idea of a sort of world wide classified ads.
My cousins husband was trying to explain that he uses it to find acting roles as an extra or in student films. He then had to explain that one must read the classifieds carefully in that some of the ones listed under "talent" are not so much acting gigs as the opportunity to star in an adult film.
My mother was somewhat shocked. I then had to report on my own investigation into the craiglist personals section. Holy Techno savvy Hookers Batman. These people barely go to the trouble of pretending to be looking for a normal date. That is until the cops got techno savvy too! The smoking gun was there! I, of course, could not help perusing the mugshots. (It looks like they took number 1 in her bathrobe and I have no idea what number 7 is smiling about, but she kind of scares me.)
This puts me in mind of the saying you get what you pay for. They used a free internet personals service, that is almost like asking all the cops in the area who are hooked up to the internet, to knock on ones door. Remember you techno flesh dealers it takes money to make money.
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posted by Rich Rosenthal II at 3:00 PM
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Yeah, I love the escorts' sites that have the disclaimer about "fees are for companionship only; anything that happens between two consensual adults is up to them." However, I doubt that it would go over well if the escort told the customer that she just wanted to go to a movie and dinner and leave it at that. Eh, in my opinion, it should be legal, taxed, and regulated, like in Nevada. People are going to do it, regardless, so we may as well stop throwing money away trying to control it. All of this is just my opinion, of course.
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