Sunday, October 7, 2007
Dirty DTown
Recently, one of my friends told me about a website known as Dirty D-Town. On this website anyone can send in pics, and the people controlling the site post the pics online with rude comments underneath. Sites like these make you more conscious of what you pics you choose to put online. This site even steals your pics off of facebook and uses them on their page. My question is, is there anyway to stop a site like this? While some people have embarrassing pics that they don’t want everyone to see, others just have normal pics on this site. These normal pics may not be of the most physically attractive people, and the site takes advantage of that by making fun of the way people look. I think it’s horrible of this site to make fun of people just taking an innocent picture with their friends. One picture online is of a group of girls (the one on the left is skinny and the one on the right is a little larger) and the caption reads “evolution of obesity”. How would you feel if you saw this pic of yourself online? It wasn’t like they were doing anything embarrassing; People just can’t control how they look. Another scary thing about this website is that anyone can send a pic of you without your knowledge. Especially now days, camera phones are everywhere. Anyone could just snap a shot, send it in, and you would never know. Is this an invasion of privacy? One more thing I will ask is what kind of person do you have to be to make this website? At first it might seem like a funny idea; Let’s post pics of people doing stupid things online! But I think in the long run it just ends up hurting people. If you don’t have any other productive way of using your time other than trying to make fun of people, you need to reevaluate your life.
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on the other hand if people are stupid enough to document their drukness, or put their body on display and post those photos on the web than they no longer have exclusive writes on the pictures. maybe people should be more careful than of what pictures they put up. and maybe they should be more careful when it comes to their image.
I agree with Silverlight that there are 2 separate issues at hand. One of the issues is how irresponsible some people can be when it comes to censoring what they are put online or how they wish to act out in public. I think that everyone is entitled to have fun as they please, its just that people should be more aware of where this “fun” can lead them. However, the second issue is not as easily resolved. The fact that DirtyDtown takes perfectly normal pictures and pokes fun at them by titling them horrific things such as “the evolution of obesity” is just plain cruel. It is obvious that the people running this site have severely low self-esteem and therefore find it necessary to poke fun at others who they don’t even know. So what does it all come down to? People are just plain mean … but you still shouldn’t post unflattering pictures online!
wow. this was an interesting post! i didn't know there were sites like this online. scary. i try and be careful of what pictures i put on facebook, and lately i haven't posted any new ones. i often feel that it is a medium for people to say, "hey look at me and my friends, how pretty and cool are we?!" its almost like their asking for people to look at them. and then those people that put up pictures of themselves doing stupid things, well thats probably what there looking for. i dunno, but i think that it is wrong to make fun of people, but if you are posting pictures online you should probably be aware that anyone could potentially see them.
I agree with everyone's comments made to this post. I do think that Dirty D-Town is a nasty and terrible website but then again, it's your fault if you put up/ don't untag a scandalous/ stupid picture of yourself on facebook. You're displaying that on the internet for anybody to see. It's for your best interest to take down those pictures that you are ashamed of. When it comes time for you to find a major job, employers will be able to check what you post on facebook and myspace, so be smart about how you represent yourself.
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