Posted on March 13th, 2008 at 9:01 pm by fran25 and
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After a particular incident today, I really got to thinking about MySpace a little. Now I am not downing MySpace—I have three spaces and I love it!–today just made me think a little. There was a guy that had found me on MySpace and was sending me emails and was really getting aggravating. Obviously, I didn’t write him back, but he would see when I checked the email because it posted on his site as read. Nonetheless, after a few emails I just quit opening the emails he would send. He has even requested me to be his friend over and over again—I just let the request sit in the friend requests spot until it gets deleted. Today I received and email from him and I decided to click into his profile and check his page out to see what was on there. I looked at pictures and at the very last album, there were a bunch of pictures that I had used as profile pictures and he had them on his page. I was so aggravated! Needless to say, I am going to upload a different picture to use as my profile pic. It never occurred to me, even though I know the profile picture shows even if the page is private, that someone could be so dishonest.
These thoughts led me to wonder about other things. What if the guy set up a MySpace page and used someone else’s picture? The only reason why I thought of this is because one of my friends showed up on my friend request again. I emailed her to confirm that it was her, but just what if it wouldn’t have been her? This is where you have to be careful. In the same way, I try to think, well what if someone is sitting in a car and takes a picture of me? I guess we can live our lives scared of everything, but you just have to be careful and enjoy life as much as possible. Now I am not going to delete my MySpace account just because of this—it just makes me angry that people are so crazy. They are everywhere though. Ok—enough blabbing. |
Link Here | March 19, 2008,
It was done to me two days ago. Someone (whom I think I know) took my picture and posted it on what looked like a myspace page that I would have done, but not quite. There was false information and a year old picture. It’s still up and I want it down. A friend, a teacher, or a family member might think it’s me and try to write. It’s scary that your identity can be taken away. I’ve sent a notice to myspace, many to the fake profile, and a couple to who I thought did it. Nothing has been done about it and I’m waiting here biting off my nails. Can you help? It’s hard to trust anyone anymore and I’ve run out of options. Please.
Jean
Link Here | March 20, 2008,
I can’t believe that! Was the person actually trying to be you? I never even thouhgt of that and really can’t understand why you would want to do that to someone. Since it has happened to two of just our small group it must happen quite a bit, but why would someone do that? What is there to gain from that? That is one reason I never let the students take a picture of me in class (that I know about anyways). I didn’t realize that anyone can take your picture and become you.. at least socially. That is scary.
Barbara Nantz
Link Here | March 20, 2008,
Yes, the person told the name of my hometown and information that would have been true along time ago. Let’s just say this person has an evil side and thinks it’s funny to have the power to use the profile to possibly turn my friends and family against me. It is hard to stop the public from taking pictures but it’s even harder to stop a family member that you shared your history, friendship and memorable photos with. You can’t trust anyone, not even family. I want it stopped and no one else to go through the anxiety it has put me through. I check it everyday hoping that it has been taken down, but it’s still there pretending to be me. Don’t be fooled.
Jean