Sunday, January 25, 2015

Opinion Editorial (How Young is Too Young for an iPhone?)

 The topic that I am going to be speaking about is, "How Young is Too Young for an iPhone?". I don't think that kids or teens should have iphones. I think that because if you erase something on an iphone, like a photo or text message, you can't get it back. The only person that can get it back is the police, and I doubt that they're going to take time out of they're busy day just to do you a favor. Kids shouldn't have because I just don't think that they should have an expensive phone like that until they're older. As for teens, they shouldn't have it because we have a lot to hide on there. I'll use myself for example. Two years ago I went on a website called Omegle. For those of you who don't know what that is, its an app where you meet total strangers. You can video chat them or just message them, I had an iPhone at the time, so I started messaging strangers everyday, until I met a man. Now, don't freak out, but he was twenty-seven years-old. I know, I know, that's really old, but I wanted to be adventurous! Anyways, I started talking to this guy for at least two months or a little less. What attracted me was his kindness, and he was really cute, so I didn't want to stop talking to him. Then, my parents caught me, literally red-handed. I was upstairs in my room texting him, we were having a little bit of an argument, because he kept asking me questions about the pictures that I was sending him of "me". No, not naked pictures, but they weren't really me. They were of different girls on the internet that look somewhat the same, but then he soon started to figure it out. So, I suggested that we stop texting each other all together, because he was basically calling me a liar (which I was, but I didn't want him to know that!). Then kept saying no, and that he wanted to keep talking to me. So, I walk downstairs feeling confident, and I'm thinking inside my head, "Dang, I got this boy sprung!" Then, my mom took my phone out of my hands out of nowhere, and right at that moment he texted me! I got in trouble, and my parents tried to get back the photos and text messages that I deleted, but couldn't since I had the iPhone. Now, my point is that I was doing something very dangerous. So, lets say I deleted all my text messages and pictures, and he didn't text me at that moment. I wouldn't have gotten in trouble, right? That means that I would probably still be texting him 'til this day. Meeting guys on the internet is very dangerous. I was to the point where I would actually go and meet this guy, if my parents had not caught me in the act.