An interesting ad from Microsoft on the tube at the moment, proclaiming that “Your privacy us our priority”.
It shows a contemplative schoolgirl studying at the family dinner table. “Some things you’ll share online,” it explains. Such as:
Got first mobile phone…
It then continues:
…. Confiscated at school
with the tag line “Some things maybe not.”
And why not, I wonder? I’m sure her parents would be hugely unimpressed; after all, when they’d agreed to let her have a phone after months of pestering, she’d promised so clearly to keep it switched off during the school day. That she’d then been caught using it in class…?
I’m wondering how her parents would find out. Would the guilt become too much, making her confess? Would the school send them a letter, or email? Would another parent mention it in passing?
And what of the consequences? Across her mother’s lap for a sound spanking – hand first, then hairbrush? Or was the clue in the photograph in the ad – stretched out over that dining room table, as daddy unbuckled his belt?
our local school has a policy where if a phone is confiscated, the parent has to come to school to pick it up. Makes for some interesting conversations, I’m sure!
You *almost* have me feeling sorry for a girl in that situation, Claire, being sent to her room to waiting at home whilst her parents go to collect the phone, and dreading the ‘serious discussion’ her father had said he would have on his return…
First the post, then the comments… How exactly am I supposed not to fantasize now? Oh well, I think I can afford some time to do so.
Haha, I should have guessed you’d pervert this. Delightfully, I might add.
Although I have to comment that I find this whole campaign really odd! There’s another one (can’t remember the details) which, when I saw it, made me think “No, I’d share the latter, but not the former.” Very odd.