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When Drinking and Technology Don't Mix: Scanner Emily's Facebook Faux Pas

Posted by Emily Farris

I, Scanner Emily, like to drink. I also like to dabble in technology. These two things usually do not get me into trouble... on their own.

Friday night I was out with some friends and one asked about a guy I've gone on a couple dates with. I got out my phoneputer and went to Facebook mobile. Facebook popped up, and I put the guy's name into the text field. His picture didn't show up. I was confused. I was drunk. So it took me a few minutes to realize I'd updated my status to say this guy's name: "Emily John John.*" It was too late to make it disappear completely (Facebook gives you a few seconds to "correct" your status), so I decided the only thing to do was send a text message explaining what I'd just done, in case he'd seen it (because, of course, he's my Facebook friend):

"Embarrassing confession in case you see it: I'm out with a friend who asked about you. I got on facebook and tried to put your name into search on my phone and am pretty sure I just updated my profile to say 'emily john john.' I am very embarrassed and not a freak. Oops. Whiskey and phoneputers do not mix."


At least it wasn't as bad as the time I accidentally sent my mom a dirty text message.

Post Super Bowl a few years back, I was a little sloppy, and thought it would be fun to send my boyfriend at the time a text from the next room. And so I did. It was too dirty and offensive to be repeated here. A few minutes later I got this message.

"Your message was addressed to a landline # 816-796-####. 4 a limited time send msgs to a landline using Sprint's Text to Landline Service! Std rates apply."


I'd sent the message to my mom! And Sprint was going to make sure she got it. I'd mistakenly sent text messages to landlines before and figured they disappeared into the cell-o-sphere. That's the way it should be.

Never the alarmist, I figured if I'd wanted to take advantage of the Text to Landline Service, I'd have to take another step, like...I don't know...sign up for it?

I sent the message to the intended recipient and went back to watching "Grey's Anatomy." Then, I received this:


"Your message was successfully delivered to an answering machine or voicemail at 816-796-####. Thanks for using Text to Landline!"


Fuck.



*Obviously, some names have been changed to protect people's identities.

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Comments

jezebel9 said:

You do realize that you could've just changed your status back to whatever it was before and then deleted the offending status from the news feed thingy on your profile, right? Then no one would've been the wiser, unless they were looking at your profile at that exact minute. :)

January 21, 2008 10:40 AM

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January 21, 2008 10:55 AM

Emily Farris said:

I couldn't get my feed on my phone. And I was too drunk to figure anything else out. Good to know, though. Thanks!

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tartlet said:

I got my first text message a few weeks ago.  On my landline.

It was a computer-voice (think HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey) speaking the words in monotone. "Hap-py-new-year-smile," droned the voice on the other end of the line.  Thinking about what your mom must have heard in robot monotone makes me giggle...

January 21, 2008 2:41 PM

Brian Fairbanks said:

You know you're going to have to tell me what you said to your Mom.

January 21, 2008 3:52 PM

ladeedottie said:

I have totally updated my status with a bfs name on my phoneputer before. Except I just deleted and hoped no one saw it... yeah right

January 21, 2008 9:13 PM

Kaybie said:

I know, too dirty to be repeated on Hooksexup's Scanner?? I feel cheated

January 21, 2008 9:20 PM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, "Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven" was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

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about the blogger

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

Colleen Kane has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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