Brock Savage
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The Orange County Sheriff's Department has been blowing up my phone all morning with alerts about a tsunami. I was underwhelmed and even a little disappointed to find that it means waves are a foot or two higher today.
We get a lot of mobile phone alerts in CA and I hold the unpopular opinion that many of them do more harm than good. We get Amber Alerts and Silver Alerts that send an ear-slitting screech more appropriate for imminent earthquake or nuclear strike. Using the NUCLEAR DANGER IS IMMINENT sound for everything is causing a "boy who cried wolf" situation.
Edit: I don't think this situation is going to be fixed because anyone who says this in public will be branded a heartless SOB who doesn't care about missing children or seniors.
We get a lot of mobile phone alerts in CA and I hold the unpopular opinion that many of them do more harm than good. We get Amber Alerts and Silver Alerts that send an ear-slitting screech more appropriate for imminent earthquake or nuclear strike. Using the NUCLEAR DANGER IS IMMINENT sound for everything is causing a "boy who cried wolf" situation.
Edit: I don't think this situation is going to be fixed because anyone who says this in public will be branded a heartless SOB who doesn't care about missing children or seniors.