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Monday, March 16, 2009

Hypothetical Question

A complete stranger adds you as a friend on Flickr. You look at his stream and it's filled with God-awful pics of him bending over in nothing but a nasty bra and suspenders to show you bits of his body you really didn't want to see. You certainly didn't ask to see them, but because you've got a few pictures on Flickr showing yourself fully clothed, albeit as a different gender, you're somehow seen as fair game to anyone with a selection of poorly fitting lingerie and a cock like the last chicken in the shop (if the shop were a post-nuclear-holocaust bunker specialising in irradiated bonsai poultry) to add you as a "friend", in order to share their tenth-rate porn with you.

That same person has one picture on which he's inexplicably printed his full Yahoo username and password together with the message "use me and abuse me".

Would it be wrong to take them up on their offer, log on to Flickr using that Yahoo ID and password, and delete the entire Flickr account so that it were as if it had never existed? And then sit back with a strange sense of satisfaction that there was one less pointless sexually retarded loser using Flickr, and the world was a infintessimally nicer place because of it?

Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Anonymous Miss K  Sorry. I didn't mean to add you using *that* account.. 
Blogger Becky  *smirk* :-) 
Blogger Steg  I think it's actually your public duty to do so.... 
Anonymous Alli' Cat'  Perhaps deleting all the pictures, contacts, etc. Then uploading a picture of a nice fluffy kitten; before changing the account password so they can't access it would be a more 'measured' approach?
However, if one can't be arsed wasting too much time on a smeg-head, simple account deletion would seem an appropriate alternative. 
Blogger Pandora Caitiff  This is quite the moral quandary!

On one side we have freedom of expression and not pandering to his wishes.

On the other, you have an open invitation, and a service to humanity.

I think Alli's is the best solution. Kittens FTW! 
Blogger Kris  I'm voting for. Sometimes fate hands you a way to clean up the bad streets... 
Blogger sophie h  These people give me the creeps. They dont read your profile, or ignore what it says.
Its your duty as an I.T.professional to protect the rest of us Becky.
Maybe you could just delete the pics and leave a message 'from Flickr'. 
Blogger Calie  Just to solicit a balanced opinion, I'd check with your twin sister. 
Anonymous Clarissa  Anyone who is stupid enough to post a password in the public domain deserves everything they get.

Hypothetically speaking, of course. 
Blogger Carolyn Ann  Sod freedom of expression: this idiot is asking for it. Delete the lot, refer him to Special Branch for pornography and wish him a nice day.

Just my freely expressed opinion. Of course. :-)

Carolyn Ann 

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