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I don’t get amber alerts. They make my phone scream like the world is ending, and any interaction with device removes the message forever. So I can either stare calmly at the obnoxious noise box or stop the sound and never know what the issue was.
Yeah it's a terrible implementation. Shouldn't have software designed by politicians. "We need it to make a huge siren sound and makes sure people have to look at it before the siren will stop! Think of the children!"
I think an SMS message would be far more effective. If I get an Amber alert in the middle of the night, I'm not reading it, I'm just shutting it off as quickly so I can to get back to sleep. It's not like I'm going to be going out in the middle of the night to try to find a kid that went missing a hundred miles away. An SMS wouldn't wake me up, I'll actually read when I get up in the morning, and there's a chance I might be able to help because the information will still be there when I'm actually outside.
Had to look it up (my county doesn't have them), and two things seem weird to me:
I guess there's something to be said for everyone simultaneously getting an alert... if someone happens to be near the car they describe, get the alert and see the license plate, they'd call it in. So I guess there's circumstances where a hard alert where everyone has to simultaneously stop and look around could be beneficial. But yeah images could be useful, and most importantly something in your SMS history (which could have images) to refer back to seems like it would be way better.