I am compelled to
touch on the “cell Phone” topic again, as I’d thought I’d seen it all. I hadn’t. First of all, one of my fellow
students, a 20-something woman, is so attached to her cell phone, that she
carried it in her palm while turning in a paper to our professor. That little
trip took all of about 20 seconds!!! Does it get more bizarre than this? It does. The young man who sits next to
me in class (he sits in the first row, like me and all of the other serious
students) asked to see an essay I’d written, as he was confused by his own
notes. I didn’t have a problem with this, as he applies himself like I do, and
we’d compared notes before. I met him after class in the student commons,
handed him my paper, and before I had a clue what was happening, he took a
picture of it with his phone! ”What are you doing???????” He asked to look at my paper, not take a picture of it! “Oh, don’t worry", he
explained, "I’m not going to plagiarize…” I was absolutely incredulous, and
insisted that he erase it immediately after reading. (Wasn’t that the name of a
movie-“Erase After Reading”? Oh no, it was “Burn After Reading”, as in books.
Aren’t they nearly obsolete now too?)
When I came home
I excitedly conveyed this occurrence to my 20-something son, who felt I was
completely overreacting. He informed me that the people where he works take pictures
of their schedule with their phones. No
sympathy here. I need to discuss
this with another 50-something, so I tell my friend “K”. She wasn’t nearly as
surprised as I was, and enlightened me as to how young people take pictures of
their parking spots and all kinds of things that our generation wouldn’t even think of. (There’s that age thing again).
Still I wonder, isn’t
there some kind of cell phone/photo etiquette that would apply here? Or do I
need to copyright my essays?
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