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Girls Update status rather than Call for help
Ricardo Trejo
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Was the level of danger unknown to them, or was it simply just stupidity? Two girls, both preteens, got themselves stuck in a stormwater drain and were in quite a sticky situation on Sunday in Adelaide, Australia. The two then figured that they could update their status on Facebook and get help that way. Hopefully, someone would be online to read it.
One of their friends indeed was online and called help for them, but why couldn't they have just contacted emergency services themselves? The Metropolitan Fire Service had that exact sentiment:
"If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000, so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway."
So was it just something the girls overlooked? I mean when you're a kid you may be thinking you're doing something really smart, but in the process could be overlooking something much simpler to help you out. I think with the massive amounts of social networking at our hands nowdays and such, there should be some sort of group out there that helps educate people on the do's and dont's of this new technology.
Without anyone to teach the masses, we're just going to keep having this sort of thing happen.
[ABC.net/Au Via Mashable.com]
