This is kind of sad...
This makes me sad. I honestly can't believe there's people out there who think that it's alright to copy someone's private journal entry and share it with the world.
I got into a discussion on BDD about copy-pasting, where someone asked me 'what's so unethial about copy-pasting?' and 'why does (the wronged party) care if her protected entry wasn't bad?' basically. I wasn't allowed to reply on her on there, but I have this to say:
She cares because her privacy was breached. It was a private entry for a reason, her reason. Whatever that reason was, it had a lock next to it. Maybe she didn't want to let the entire world to know how she felt. I don't even know her that well nor do I know her reasoning behind locking it, nor am I defending what she's done. Whether or not it's her 'own damn fault' for writing that entry, it was still wrong to share it, and she has every right to feel betrayed. *shrug*
Look at it this way:
You see someone's diary on a desk. You can either leave it there, or you can open it. Whatever you decide, it's your choice. And if you read it, it's not that person's fault for 'leaving it there'. YOU chose to read it. YOU chose to open it. Whether she's stupid for leaving it there or not, you did something wrong by breaching her privacy. That's what trust is. You broke her trust. You chose to do the wrong thing. If you then tell everyone what it says, not only are you in the wrong, what you're doing is unethical. Hence it's unethical. I really don't see why that part of my statement is difficult to understand.
No, it's not okay to tell everyone what a private entry says just because it's there and you have access to it. By that reasoning, there's no such thing as 'trust' at all, because everyone should assume their secrets are never safe, and never tell each other anything. I'm not saying one shouldn't be surprised when you tell a bunch of people something and one of them tells, but the person that spilled the secret is still in the wrong for doing so, not the person that wrote it. There IS a such thing as trust, and someone on her f-list broke it. You can justify it all you want, but it's still wrong for that person to have done that.
Just because you let someone in your house, it doesn't mean they are entitled to take pictures of the inside of it without your knowledge and pass them around to people who you don't let into your house. ^^;
Maybe I write about something stupid like My Scene dolls I want, but I lock it. I don't care if my f-list thinks it's 'not private' -- they're not entitled to share it with everyone they know. I locked it for a reason-- I wouldn't copy/paste something a friend told me, just like I wouldn't want my friends to do it to me. It's called being a decent human being. I wish more people would try it sometime.
I know that you guys wouldn't do that, because you're great like that and I love my f-list, I'm just slightly ticked off. I'm sorry for the vent. It's just that this has happened to a couple people I know and like and I think it's despicable. Worse that it's being justified. =\
I suppose C+Pers never use things like Ad-Aware and Spybot to remove Adware and stuff, because tracking cookies should be expected when one opens themselves up to using the internet, or something.
I got into a discussion on BDD about copy-pasting, where someone asked me 'what's so unethial about copy-pasting?' and 'why does (the wronged party) care if her protected entry wasn't bad?' basically. I wasn't allowed to reply on her on there, but I have this to say:
She cares because her privacy was breached. It was a private entry for a reason, her reason. Whatever that reason was, it had a lock next to it. Maybe she didn't want to let the entire world to know how she felt. I don't even know her that well nor do I know her reasoning behind locking it, nor am I defending what she's done. Whether or not it's her 'own damn fault' for writing that entry, it was still wrong to share it, and she has every right to feel betrayed. *shrug*
Look at it this way:
You see someone's diary on a desk. You can either leave it there, or you can open it. Whatever you decide, it's your choice. And if you read it, it's not that person's fault for 'leaving it there'. YOU chose to read it. YOU chose to open it. Whether she's stupid for leaving it there or not, you did something wrong by breaching her privacy. That's what trust is. You broke her trust. You chose to do the wrong thing. If you then tell everyone what it says, not only are you in the wrong, what you're doing is unethical. Hence it's unethical. I really don't see why that part of my statement is difficult to understand.
No, it's not okay to tell everyone what a private entry says just because it's there and you have access to it. By that reasoning, there's no such thing as 'trust' at all, because everyone should assume their secrets are never safe, and never tell each other anything. I'm not saying one shouldn't be surprised when you tell a bunch of people something and one of them tells, but the person that spilled the secret is still in the wrong for doing so, not the person that wrote it. There IS a such thing as trust, and someone on her f-list broke it. You can justify it all you want, but it's still wrong for that person to have done that.
Just because you let someone in your house, it doesn't mean they are entitled to take pictures of the inside of it without your knowledge and pass them around to people who you don't let into your house. ^^;
Maybe I write about something stupid like My Scene dolls I want, but I lock it. I don't care if my f-list thinks it's 'not private' -- they're not entitled to share it with everyone they know. I locked it for a reason-- I wouldn't copy/paste something a friend told me, just like I wouldn't want my friends to do it to me. It's called being a decent human being. I wish more people would try it sometime.
I know that you guys wouldn't do that, because you're great like that and I love my f-list, I'm just slightly ticked off. I'm sorry for the vent. It's just that this has happened to a couple people I know and like and I think it's despicable. Worse that it's being justified. =\
I suppose C+Pers never use things like Ad-Aware and Spybot to remove Adware and stuff, because tracking cookies should be expected when one opens themselves up to using the internet, or something.