Category — thinkery

matociquala: code monkey think maybe manager want to write goddamned login page himself.

Great piece about how the Internet is breaking down the barriers to knowing the people who make awesome things.

Okay so y’all have had at least one person affected by the LJ mojo meme, and got their journals defaced by a nasty picture.  The perpetrator was one aka along with others unknown.  [LJ mojo google search]

Most have taken down the meme results but the aftereffects are still being felt.  Awesome job for somebody who wanted to be a jackass.

He friended me last year sometime, and I checked out the profile and was immediately suspicious as there was a ton of gross interests and quite a few ‘friends’ (over a thousand or so) with no communities.  I checked a few at random and none of them had any interests in common with the dirtyfilthy guy whose icon was a face covered in a brown substance I don’t want to think about since I just had dinner.

I flipped out.  I felt violated, since here was this stranger that I have never spoken to in my life offline or online, watching my journal where on occasion I talk about my daughter and give out her name.  He gave off the creepiest vibe I have ever felt and I’ll be honest, it scared me.  I was so tempted to flock my journal.  I dug about LJ and found the admin console and a useful command: ban_set [user].  Useful tool to keep away the people you don’t like and don’t want to have read your journal. 

Strange feeling for a denizen of the net, having blogged online since 2004 (three years?  Dang.), and coming up on my one year anniversary with LJ, along with using chat, IM and email since Dec. 1996, to feel like somebody just violated your privacy when it was just words and a gross picture and just a feeling of wrongness.

But that runs smack dab into one of my firm beliefs that everybody should be free to say what they want, but yet I value having a trusted place to say things that aren’t for general consumption.  Sticky conundrum. 

[crossposted at my LJ.]