Personal lives - stepping over that line

[jeannius]

Dazed, me too! Those naked pics of MY girlfriend will HAVE to go....or Tony might want to join? OMG!

Good to have a laugh, but it still doesn't take away how serious this is.

[1designguy]

I'm seriously considering removing the naked pictures of my girlfriend from my pages.

Did you do it already? I found nothing

I'll go back and have another look

STILL PISSED

[dazedgonebye]

I'm seriously considering removing the naked pictures of my girlfriend from my pages.

Did you do it already? I found nothing

I'll go back and have another look

STILL PISSED

Ha! Made you look!

[darter02]

You know, about year ago we had a discussion about what a PAD project is. I stated that I thought a PAD was taking photos every day and all that. At the time, Jypsee was pretty acidic to my opinion and blasted me a bit, anger that seemed to still be around when someone else asked us “old timer’sâ€

[camera0bug]

I'm leaving my naked running photos up for all to see.

...and the birthday suit SP's too.



Sorry Mom!

[robertwhite]

Hi I am actually amazed and disgusted that someone can actually stoop that low
As said before in this tread to critacise ones photographs is one thing to interfere with there lives is totally out of order
Good for you for having the courage to highlight this very sad affair
Regards Bob

[type]

I happened upon an old picture from my early PaD days

http://www.pbase.com/image/33362553 where jypsee made the following comment:

jypsee hide | delete 03-Sep-2004 17:46
I've come to enjoy the beer not so cold; it has more flavor, something Americans who enjoy "Bud" and its ilk, seem oblivious to or else they just don't like real beer. Thank goodness for microbrews. How do you stand the constant surveillance?? I'd rather live with the threat of Al-Queda than live under this kind of scrutiny and lack of privacy.

I too would rather live with the threat of Al-Queda than live with jypsee's brand of scrunity, invasiveness and attack. Statistically, the chances of my being damaged by her are far greater than by Al-Queda, judging by jude's experience.

[gpc]

Jude,
Thanks for having the courage to post this issue. Hurray to your boss for handling it so well. Phttt! to the ill and vicious person who did this.
Gayle

[5points]

A very sad story, but fortunately with a good ending!
(Hopefully it will not have an impact on what you show us here on PBase.)

[leejungil]

Wow! I don't peak in these forums often but I'm glad I did! I'm actually stunned that someone would do that! I guess never underestimate the power of jealousy and someone with too much time on their hands! I guess it is a good warning to us all, but I hope it doesn't have any effect on your posting here on pbase as I think its definitely agreed that we all love your work jude mc!

[clickaway]

Just caught up with this Jude.

I'm really glad you are really well covered on this - I couldn't imagine you cheating on the paper.

Yeah, I think Mary has bent up stuff in her head. Its a pity that she has some good work on here but I always feel somewhat guilty about giving her any positive feedback in view of her attitude in the past.

This latest action of hers has just strengthened my resolve here.

Now, we are still waiting for Mary to respond. Interesting.

Take Care, Jude.

[annayu]

Really glad that it worked out to your advantage and that your boss is cool, Jude. We all have our differences on the net and I usually don't like it when everyone gangs up on one person, but this action is unexcusable. And a bit scary. Did you contact Mary directly to confront her?

[camera0bug]

Hey!

No one has complained about my naked SP photos to my boss yet.

I'm beginning to get worried.....

[floradoragirl]

My first reaction when I read this was just a huge "wow" of incredulity and I guess that still remains because it's still hard to imagine someone doing this. As I read the replies it made me think further - what made me look at the post in the first place is the header "personal lives - stepping over that line" and it's something I've recently begun to think about.

Doing a PaD - we do step over a line of sorts, we share bits of ourselves with complete strangers and we only know who's commented on our pictures, not who's looked at them.

My pad has featured my partner, my home, my cat, my friends, my colleagues, my colleagues' children, my colleagues' grandchildren, my workplace, my work, my face, my holidays, my current obessessions (mostly these days with camera lenses!) my dinner, my pretty much everything. I'm not enough of an artist to do a PaD that's abstract or conceptual and that doesn't contain the minutiae of my life, because I'm stumped for inspiration far too often and have to fall back on what's around. And what's around me is my life. Most of us share our lives in our PaD's. And we take it on trust that it won't be abused. This and something that happened to me recently have made me wonder if we share too much, if we trust too much becuase perhaps we do.

But then - what do we do? Recently someone (I don't know who but I'm sure it wasn't jypsee) posted a link to my pad at another site. I was extremely upset and the site admin took the link down but for a little while, it made me worry about posting anything about myself anywhere. I feel a little more self conscious posting, haven't done a proper SP since then for example but...I don't want to stop PaDding, even though there are times like now when my enthusiasm wanes.

I still think it's incredible that someone would do this to you Jude and incredibly awful. It's not luck that it didn't do you damage, but that's entirely because of the person you are not because the actions taken against you didn't have the potential for damage. Like annayu2, I don't like posts that gang up against any one person and I can understand why you'd have reservations about posting but I think you had to post this - I think we all need to know what's happened because this kind of thing matters to everyone. I'm really glad you posted and I'm really sorry you (or anyone) had to endure this.

Rosie

[adalberto_tiburzi]

Well said Rosie.