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Wireless

by Mike Masnick





MMS For Marijuana

from the one-way-to-use-it dept

We keep hearing about how MMS (multimedia messaging) has been slow to take off, mainly because mobile execs seemed to think that people would gravitate to MMS the same way they did with SMS -- even though text is often a much more efficient means of communication. However, it seems that the "youth" market the industry is now so desperate to attract may have figured out their own way of using MMS: to facilitate drug sales. Apparently, a bunch of suburban teen high schoolers would use MMS to send out photos and details concerning how and where to buy drugs. They apparently thought it was a clever way to contact each other -- except for the fact that parents have been known to snoop on their childrens' phones. One parent found the photos and alerted the police, who tracked down the drug dealing kids and arrested them. So, back to the drawing board on ways jumpstart MMS usage in the youth market.

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  1. What's the first thing ya learn.

    by Andrew Strasser - Dec 27th, 2005 @ 6:39pm

    The last is and I ain't worried about the Fed's invesitigation on me. Git yer books right yer good as free.

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  2. Re: What's the first thing ya learn.

    by David Patrick - Dec 28th, 2005 @ 1:18am

    Doh... Sadly we have you and your generation of youth to look foward to... If you could of sounded any more ignorant I would of thought you were a avid OC fan.

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  3. Re: What's the first thing ya learn.

    by ted - Dec 28th, 2005 @ 5:29am

    HA HA HA.. nicely put

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  4. Re: What's the first thing ya learn.

    by hautedawg - Dec 28th, 2005 @ 6:07am

    The first thing you know "Ol' Jed's a Millonaire". However I also know that ignorance is bliss, and there are some dang happy people out there.

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  5. Re: What's the first thing ya learn.

    by John - Dec 28th, 2005 @ 12:20pm

    right... I believe you meant "could have" instead of "could of" you ignorant old fuck. Leave the youth alone.

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  6. Re: What's the first thing ya learn.

    by dadadaddu - Mar 7th, 2006 @ 5:24am

    your all idiots to do marijuana your killing your brain and ruining your lives you dumb shits

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  7. by Anonymous Coward - Nov 3rd, 2007 @ 5:36pm

    who ever wrote: "it's also helpful to invade their privacy as much as you can get away with." is a fuckin lethargic bitch!

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