Sep
Livejournal user plusninety has decided that my face is prettier than theirs, and have taken one of my public photos and posted it all over their journal and lj profile. Needless to say I am kinda wigged out about it.
In short, I removed all my public photos from scrapbook. ALL OF THEM.
I also left a snarky message, because I don’t think plusninety (who is apparently Russian) is going to kindly take down a photo because I asked nicely.
I am most definitely DISGUSTED with the internet. I knew it could be creepy, but the internet *I* knew is a happy fun place, filled with fun and great things, where everyone (mostly) played nice and we all got on joyously. I forget that it has this disgusting underbelly of creepy and gross.<
Sigh. I think I just got learned by the internet.
[edit] I TOTALLY just got learned! It’s an live journal based script that takes the your journal username and generates a public picture from your account. If you log out of lj, it doesn’t generate a picture. While I’m glad that its not focused on me, this is STILL A HORRIBLE AND DESPICABLE THING TO DO! Internet, I am still unimpressed with you.[/edit]
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Yea when you said someone had taken your picture and posted it all over their journal this is the first thing I thought of, someone made a facebook script that did the same thing. You had to be logged into facebook to see your picture but it made you think the person was calling out etc. People made legal threats over it they got fooled so hard.
Yeah . . . you’d think after all that forum bs with bitchy threads I would have remembered how pathetic some people armed with the internet can be.
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know, that I’ve also been “added” by plusninety.
I’m always very careful before returning the gesture and when I checked out his account, I saw a picture of my 4-year old son.
Needless to say, I completely freaked out.
It was a huge relief when I found this blog and thus explaining to me what had happened.
I agree that it is completely despicable that such things can occure. So, I sent an official complaint to the board of Livejournal. I don’t know if it will make a difference but I felt that I had to make an official statement.
Well, I’m glad my post helped! It took me a few minutes of thinking to work it out (probably longer than it should have – like you I freaked out!) and while I left countless messages, plusninety seems to think it an amusing joke. Alas – some people have a very ODD sense of humour!
Hello. I too was “added” by Plusninety. Thing is. He don’t have a pic of mine but he does have one a friend of mine did for me.
I’m not sure what to think. I’m now going to see what I can do about this.