Nowadays many people are more dependent on technology than in the past. Most of them have their own mobile phone that it becomes one of the basic things in their lives. The article "Text Message: Digital Lipstick on the Collar"shows that text message can be used as an evidence to divorce with their husband or wife instead of the mark of lipstick on a collar and the disappearance of credit card bill. Many divorced cases that one of the spouses use text message contact with their partner has increased since the number of people who use text messages becomes greater than before.This technology has many benefit when the fact is examined; however, there are some argument whether the text message that uses as an evidence is real or made up by someone else, and whether the message in mobile phone can be considered as privacy or not.
Text message is similar to e-mail that the message can be shown in the sender and the receiver' mobile phone in spite of deleting because the communications companies will keep that message after it was sending for days to a few week. Due to the fact that the message can be kept by the companies, it can be used as a strong evidence to support the argument in the investigative process. In case of Kwame Kilpatrick, he lied about his affair with politician, but at last the truth is revealed by the text message. On the other hand, if someone intend to persecute the one whom they don't like, they may create the fake evidence easily. For instance, husband'd like to divorce with his wife because he fall in love with a new woman, but his wife refute to divorce with him. So, he used his wife's mobile phone to send the abusive message to his mobile phone in order to claim that she is not appropriate to be his wife.
In addition, apart from being an evidence for divorced case, text message can be used in the other particular situation. For example, one couple are separate. The wife would like to take care of her child by herself. She claim that her husband went away from her and their child. Nevertheless, the husband argue back that he left her because she did the violent action. In conclusion, the lawer fnd the evidence to show that the husband is right by using the message that she sent to her husband to apologize what she had done with him.
Using text message can be considered as a private communication; however it may be not privacy as Mark Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy information Center, suggested not to use text message in the phone if you don't want anyone to know the message. Because people are not careful enough to show their personal information to the public, the text message becomes a popular information that is used in a court law to prove the truth. Generally, reading other people' message causes their lives lack of privacy. No one doesn't want anyone to pay attention to their own lives. Though it is neccessary to public individual's life if that can help solving the problem in society and family.
Communication technology like mobile phone have a lot of advantages to our society that it can use to prove the fact, and to communicate with a specific person although sometime it makes us less private lives, and it can make the deceitful evidences.
Text message is similar to e-mail that the message can be shown in the sender and the receiver' mobile phone in spite of deleting because the communications companies will keep that message after it was sending for days to a few week. Due to the fact that the message can be kept by the companies, it can be used as a strong evidence to support the argument in the investigative process. In case of Kwame Kilpatrick, he lied about his affair with politician, but at last the truth is revealed by the text message. On the other hand, if someone intend to persecute the one whom they don't like, they may create the fake evidence easily. For instance, husband'd like to divorce with his wife because he fall in love with a new woman, but his wife refute to divorce with him. So, he used his wife's mobile phone to send the abusive message to his mobile phone in order to claim that she is not appropriate to be his wife.
In addition, apart from being an evidence for divorced case, text message can be used in the other particular situation. For example, one couple are separate. The wife would like to take care of her child by herself. She claim that her husband went away from her and their child. Nevertheless, the husband argue back that he left her because she did the violent action. In conclusion, the lawer fnd the evidence to show that the husband is right by using the message that she sent to her husband to apologize what she had done with him.
Using text message can be considered as a private communication; however it may be not privacy as Mark Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy information Center, suggested not to use text message in the phone if you don't want anyone to know the message. Because people are not careful enough to show their personal information to the public, the text message becomes a popular information that is used in a court law to prove the truth. Generally, reading other people' message causes their lives lack of privacy. No one doesn't want anyone to pay attention to their own lives. Though it is neccessary to public individual's life if that can help solving the problem in society and family.
Communication technology like mobile phone have a lot of advantages to our society that it can use to prove the fact, and to communicate with a specific person although sometime it makes us less private lives, and it can make the deceitful evidences.
References
Holson, L. M.(2009, December,8). Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar.The NewYorkTimes. Retreive 3:32, December 9, 2009 from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/us/09text.html?ref=todayspaper
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