I tried it, that is wild! Now I’m all paranoid of all the photos of myself I uploaded from the past like umpteen years lol. That is amazing I had no idea about this stuff thanks!
The internet should make us all paranoid.
A month ago, I was arguing with someone about the concept of desiring to change oneself, as regards sexual identity and California’s prohibition against allowing teenagers to get professional counseling if they want to be heterosexual.
In an attempt to find some analogy that might illustrate my point, I looked at his avatar, which showed him to be somewhat large. So I said “looking at your picture, it seems you might have at some point thought you would like to lose some weight. Isn’t that a good example of how someone might want to change “what they are”?
He took that as me calling him fat. And it turned out he was gay, and apparently a lot of gays are fat, and they take being called fat as some sort of gay slur. So he was hurt.
His response was to go to my facebook page, and look at my pictures. I used to be quite fat, although at the moment I am merely obese. I also don’t post any pictures publicly on facebook (my avatar is a south park character). But it turned out I had made one album of pictures from a train show public so that some friends of my son’s could see them (I don’t have friends on my facebook except my family).
He went through them, and found a picture of my son, who is a very large child.
Then he came back to the Disqus discussion (on national review) and said “looking at you and your son’s obvious weight problems, you have no room to call other people fat”.
That was the first time I was truly pissed off at a conversation — an adult male (who was gay) had looked up not MY info, but had actually dragged my minor son into a political argument to insult him.
But I got him back — the next 10 times I responded to him, I mentioned how it was really creepy that he had taken such an interest in a minor child. Which, when I found out he was gay, really explained all his responses after that. He eventually deleted the original post, and I wiped out my posts to him. I also fixed my facebook.
My son posts everything public, and uses his name, so my guess is he’ll never get a good-paying job. :-)