Facebook Girls
One of the sites in question, even laid out like Facebook with a stolen model photo
There are now quite a few websites where people take photos of girls from Facebook and upload them to blogs. Some of these sites are pure privacy invasion, just personal photos of girls from their Facebook pages. Some mix photos of real girls and models, effectively crowd-sourcing softcore porn. With Facebook, people have started posting and identifying photos of themselves. This includes a lot of boys being boys and girls being girls. However, Facebook only gives the illusion of being a wall garden, there are plenty of cats and dogs that can get in and out. Thus you get people taking photos out of semi-private Facebook into the more public world of blogs.
This is an age where an inadvertent sex tape can lead to a career (a la Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton), but in Sri Lanka it’s more likely to scuttle any serious work prospects. In the west people already check Facebook before hiring, 79% of employers according to a Microsoft survey. This practice may not be as prevalent in Sri Lanka, but the email forward is ubiquitous at offices and a girls reputation is quite easy to damage.
Many of the photos on these sites are simply profile pictures and names, some risque and some not. As reluctant as I am to publicize these sites, it seems pointless to discuss without linking and I have also included info on how to report and block these sites in the future. That said, one site, FBKello, seems to have around 900 profiles from around Sri Lanka with photos, real names and links. They also invite people to ‘submit’ links to other girls pages. Another site, sekylk.info mixes stolen private photos with (presumably copyrighted) model photos, both local and international.
This is illegal under copyright law, but this is very much disregarded online anyways. The more serious issue is that these are photos of people taken without their permission. That is, unlike movie or music piracy online, this hurts individuals.
It is, however, possible to take these sites down. Blogger has a way to report abuse, one category of which is someone posting private information. It seems, however, that the person themselves has to report the abuse. Another site, sl-sluts.blogspot.com, seemed to have been driven underground by this reporting.
Just as inevitably, though, these sites spring up again, and the photos keep circulating. At some level, girls (and boys) may want to think twice about posting drunken or debauched photos of themselves as they may get around. People should also be careful about friending only people they know and controlling their privacy settings on Facebook. On some level, however, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was correct when he said that privacy was no longer a social norm.
There are generations that are growing up and growing used to living their lives in public. Even this generation, however, seems to take offense to their private photos being used for public perving. Recently, the Daily Mirror reported over 50 complaints against Facebook itself, which seem to be misdirected. The problem is that people are subverting Facebook’s controls and putting photos on the wider Internet.
Just a thought. Do we own our appearance? I mean what if Hillary Clinton had a twin sister who does porn?
Lefroy, I think Mahinda Rajapaksa has a twin brother who is a male prostitute in either North Korea, Burma, Libya or Zimbabwe…
Good work Indi, thanks for pointingthis out.
the worst fucking porn ever hahahahahahahahaha
good post. it would be nice if it wasnt so easy for people to just save pictures on facebook, but having said that it really comes down to individuals knowing what they are posting online and only posting stuff that they don’t mind random people being able to see/ copy/ share.
The fucks who run these FB blogs are pure perverts. My friend’s girl’s fb pics were posted on LankaNewsWeb …Mangala Samaraweera’s fucking disgusting site.
This is not a true information, please give me 1 proof for this……dont cheat others to spreading false information.
It is Young people who prey themselves for traps in FB. They add fake profiles as friends and then loose control. It is quite easy to impersonate someone in FB. I think FBs policies must change.
Verification of profiles are easier now. like what the Twitter ppl do. They call the number to verify the account. And add a Verified tag on the profile.
Another thing is mischievious young people donot care about their privacy these days. They just dont mind it bcos they have excuses. Infact I have talked to some girls talking proudly about their circulating picture which are infact altered for porn.
Now now, what’s the fuss… with Photoshop, any of us can become overnight sensations. It’s ability to stretch skin,color/lighten skin, remove fat, add muscle, increase boob size by a factor ranging from 10% – 100%, and in general, transform the human figure on a level equal to Michelangelo, is quite extraordinary. Play around with it yourself, and you’ll see why the models in various magazines and still pictures look so perfect.