Friday, December 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 pictures, and the people controlling the site post the pictures online with rude comments underneath. Sites like these make you more conscious of what you photos you choose to put online. This site even steals your photos 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 pictures that they don’t want everyone to see, others just have normal photos on this site. These normal photos 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 picture of yourself online? It wasn’t like they were doing anything embarrassing; People just can’t control how they look. Yet, on the other hand, if you are careless or irresponsible enough to have a photo taken of you while you are doing something you would be embarrassed for others to see online, then maybe you should consider the consequences of your actions beforehand.
Another scary thing about this website is that anyone can send a picture 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 photos 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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