February 1, 2010
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Seeing Your Online Friends Naked
The other day, a blogger on xanga had photos of himself posted naked on his site. He had naked photos on his computer and his friends saw the photos and placed them on his site. When some of his xanga friends saw the naked photos, they recommended the post. I won’t mention his name because I don’t want to embarrass him.
It used to be the pattern on xanga that people would post naked photos of themselves. They would ask their friends if they wanted to see naked photos of them and then added them to protected if the people wanted to see.
No matter what anyone says, most people wanted to be added. In fact, these posts tended to be some of the most commented posts.
Imagine your xanga friend posted naked photos on their site.
Would you
1. Look away to protect their dignity
2. Check them out because of curiosity
3. Recommend their post so everyone could share in their shame.
Comments (101)
HAHAHAHAHA Just by that photo alone I know who you’re talking about.
numero dos!
lol who knows
I’d be curious and maybe take a look but I don’t know if I’d rec it.
I would have recommended his post if I didn’t want to hog those pix all to myself.
I’d check them out but I don’t think I’d rec the post.
Depending, I suppose, on who it was and how they looked.
Oh my god, I missed naked pics of HIM?!?!?!
fml.
Do you want to see naked pictures of me? Is that what you are saying here? My answer is 1 or 2 depending upon who it is.
REC.
HA HA PENIS
Curiosity would probably get the best of me lol.
@scrambledmegsntoast - as the secretary of Boobs and Penises I must advise you to go with 3 madam president D:
Maybe 1, maybe 2, but not 3..
I’d loook!
But I wouldn’t rec.
LOL! NO! I would not recommend the post. Thats such a b****move
But I might take a peek out of curiousity
Unless they announced that they photos were nude I probably wouldn’t even notice. Even if they did announce it I would probably think it a joke and click on it anyway. I only rec posts that I think have a message that needs to be passed on. I don’t think nudity is any big deal, so I probably wouldn’t rec it.
I’d be curious, lol.
I would not go simply out of respect not only for that person but also for my wife! If it was a naked guy why the heck would I even be temped to go look
prob number 2 to be honest
lol
Am I sensing Dan’s next post going from Breast Cancer Awareness to Testicular Cancer Awareness? Instead of pink ribbons, will we be using another color for this? Gee, I hope I’ll qualify for the blue ribbon.
4. Forget to click the link for their post because I really don’t read their Xangas anyway.
i was wondering why he would post those photos of himself
id rip them for my own computer if she was hot enough,,, no,, that guy wouldnt be hot enough,,, i dont rip pics of guys,,,,
2.
FML. I can’t believe I missed this by being gone.
But DAYUM, I’d check ‘em out.
2. LOL @ the picture. It’s nice to know I have basic common knowledge of xanga celebrities to figure this one out.
Poor Sam
=D
I followed the link and was
. If I had known that was what it was it would be 1. He’s got a cute lil body tho. I didn’t think it was appropriate to tell him that. Um. Like I said, 1.
shit if they were his pictures i’d look.. i wouldnt rec it though.
haha, really?
i’ve never noticed any naked posts! shucks.actually, though, i’d like to remain in the dark about these things
baha! Id totally go look, im a creeper like that!!
i’d look. but i wouldn’t go broadcasting it to the world. i’d wanna keep that ALL to myself.
ew why would anyone want to see me naked o.o
It’s human nature to be curious!
It all depends on why he put it up there. If he put up the posts just to get everyone to see him naked, I’d probably not look so much. But if there is a reason he posted them in the first place, then…
Lol, I was at one networking site, and in less than 15 minutes some guy sent me a nude pick he said was of him.
#2. Rec’ing would be a bit much.
I would have probably checked them out because of curiousity. I don’t feel like seeing someone naked really changes my idea of them. Ok maybe I’ll be a little more attracted to them after, but who cares ?
I wouldn’t recommend it, because that’s just really embaressing. That’s like pointing and laughing when someone’s pants falls down in public.
either 1 or 2… if they had a previous or current profile pic that screams ugly, I won’t be able to take a nude picture without going blind…
as for rec., well, if they’re desperate enough to get more views that they would do something like that, then why not?
have a weird perv. hit on them!
I’d only look if I was wearing my dirty raincoat at the time. I have compulsive obsessive disorder, and have to stay in my accustomed patterns.
I never give it a second thought. I don’t bother.
oh snap, i did not know that his friends posted those not him!!!! now i feel bad for oggling…
if it’s a girl, I’d look.
I’d check it out.
If it’s a woman I’d check it out without a second thought. LOL
Depends whether it’s a guy or girl…jk. I wouldn’t…why are you all staring at me…O.ARGHHH…
I was gonna click b/c the post was so out of character. But then I thought about it and was like, “wait… no, I won’t” and so I didn’t. I thought it was actually a prank so I’m glad I didn’t see it
Respect, all the way!
1. Look away to protect their dignity!
I am to curious of a person so 2, and/or 3…depending on who it was. I mean, they post them so they can be seen right??? Why not help them be seen!
1. Besides, anyone whod do that has no dignity
I would totally look.
Now I want to post naked photos of myself.
If I saw one of my online friends naked I’d be a little disturbed unless I knew them personally (in real life) too.
That was quite the interesting post by him. I think for a lot of us curiosity would win over.
#2
I would be curious.. and most others would be as well!
lol
I would not recommend though.
Please, please don’t YOU ever, EVER do that. The interwebs community will thank you. That is all.
2.
Gross.
I saw one pic on my subs page and said a prayer for him. It’s the mom in me.
1, maybe 2 but definitely not 3.
2
Hahahahaha yeah I guess number two because I saw them.
I’m…not sure. depends. On a lot of things.
~V
In the past I haven’t looked at some pics that were advertised as, ahem, revealing. So it would depend on the person, AND it would depend on who put them up, my friend or someone else.
I wouldn’t check out pics put up by someone else.
I would look away, or even defriend them, because I’m not interested in being friends with exhibitionists like that.
-grins- I’d be too curious to look away, but I wouldn’t recommend.
Unless it was a really good post. :p
only if it was a girl… guys, no thanks!
Curious for sure!
my brother–you should be brutally forthright and add
4. Stare like perv
‘My heart’—I need no other’s—showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly.’–C.S. Lewis
Good morning, Dan!
Is it horrible of me to say that it depends on the person?! Cause it totally would.
I would probably peak & then never talk about it! LOL
I’d hope I’d look away, but my curiosity would probably prevail especially if it was a gal.
It would depend on who it was…some people you don’t want to see naked.
Man, that kinda sucks. I’d prefer not to see another Xangan nekkid, unless she was HOT!
What can I say? I’m a guy.
Man, this Republican Revolution is not what I expected.
4: Call the a DUMBASS.
Oh, wow….I’m so upset that I missed that!!
(Everyone wants to see people they know naked!)
Check them out, because I couldn’t look away if I knew they were there, haha. But recommending, nuh-uhhh. Not to save them embarrassment, but to save me the “why did you recommend THAT?!”
Look the other way for MY own dignity.
I’d be too curious, I would have to look.
I wouldn’t rec it though.
I’d have to say 2, sadly.
4. INSTANTLY CLOSE
Lol probably a combination of 1 and 2 if possible XD
All of the above!
You should have warned us that there was a photo of a naked fish on your page!
It depends on who it is and… 2.
4. I’ll ask him, “Wanna make a wild sizzling sex?”
My real answer, I’ll contact him/her (via email or phone or Xanga Private Message) to alert him about the matter. A fellow Xanga did this to me on Nov-2009 because she wanna bring me down, I guess. No, not my naked body, but I photo wear only towel – I was on my way out from the bathroom when the picture was taken. Of course their ‘XANGA FAMILY & FRIEND’ recommended the post.
Well, epic failed I’m still here. Hi guys!
Depends if they were hot.
In all honesty, I would probably check them out due to curiosity. However, I would not rec.
And, seriously, in the situation of your friend it sounds like he didn’t even really want them on his site. Some “friends” of his decided to do it for him. I wouldn’t consider people like that to be friends, at all. I would definitely not associate with jerks like that ever again. :/ That’s not funny, cute or “all in good fun,” when someone does that. That isn’t “just a joke,” either. I don’t care what anyone says.
I find this to be an interesting question. In the one case the photo’s were posted just because they were on the computer by someone else not the person in the photo’s. That’s kinda low. If someone posted photo’s of themselves I don’t know if looking away would really be protecting their dignity since they themselves posted the photo’s. I would of course be curious but as they say curiosity killed the cat. I wouldn’t knowingly look for a post of any of my xanga friends naked.
2 xD
People are so embarrassed by the naked human form. In itself it is just another one of God’s beautiful creations. It is when we sexualize it, make it crass that it becomes “dirty”.
That being said I would not want to look at someone else’s nude pics. I tell my friends, my daughter, her friends to never EVER take naked pictures because once they are out there they will come back and haunt you. You never know when you’ll be sorry you took them.
I would probably go with number 2.. If I’m interested lol
i would probably be tooo curious and check tha homie out…..but i wouldn’t rec’d thats mean LOLz
2 & 3
I would look but I woudln’t rec.
4. i would think they were stupid.
a lot of the things that go on the internet, never really come off.
2 and 3 and MORE… XD
You can never have enough nudity! 3 ftw. Not to mention that’s less competition for when I run for president. Can’t be big brother if people have seen your twigs and berries (or milk and cookies – to each his or her own)
2 or maybe 3.
I wouldn’t “look away to protect their dignity”. They’d have already sacrificed that by the act of posting such pictures in the first place. Nor would I view them “out of curiosity”. That would be sharing in their self-inflicted disgrace. NOR would I call others’ attention to them. I would just message that person and ask him/her- for their own sake and for those of young people on site- to remove the pictures. There’s far more than enough porn online. The last thing the internet needs is amateur exhibitionism as well. Such people should think first of the example it sends to children, if not their own safety.
I don’t really want to see naked pics.