Weird Online Invasion of Privacy Stuff
I was curious to see what a friend of mine, an actress and visual artist, was up to. So, I looked up her name on the net and, even if I am a "jaded materialist," I was kind of shocked by the stuff I found.
One site that showed up was "Is [her name] gay?," followed by a statement to the effect that she should come out of the closet to help empower other lesbians. She had boyfriends when I knew her. It never crossed my mind that that area of her life was my business, nor would whether or not she's turned out to a lesbian be my business.
Another site had somehow dug of topless screenshots of her from a movie she appeared in (found all this on a Google images search without even going to the site). This site also presented her family tree. I guess that was to help make sure all her relatives found out. I gather it was some crappy indie horror flick. That would have been somewhere between 18-20 years old. I highly doubt she'd be comfortable with that (based on stuff she's said). I actually knew her when she was acting in that movie, though I didn't know about the topless scenes. I also know that after she put in the time and effort for it, they didn't pay her, though they were supposed to, and she regretted all of it.
So, now, with Internet, every blemish, every misguided mistake, every unfounded speculation, can be projected over what a person really is like or wants to be perceived by the public. Yikes.
One site that showed up was "Is [her name] gay?," followed by a statement to the effect that she should come out of the closet to help empower other lesbians. She had boyfriends when I knew her. It never crossed my mind that that area of her life was my business, nor would whether or not she's turned out to a lesbian be my business.
Another site had somehow dug of topless screenshots of her from a movie she appeared in (found all this on a Google images search without even going to the site). This site also presented her family tree. I guess that was to help make sure all her relatives found out. I gather it was some crappy indie horror flick. That would have been somewhere between 18-20 years old. I highly doubt she'd be comfortable with that (based on stuff she's said). I actually knew her when she was acting in that movie, though I didn't know about the topless scenes. I also know that after she put in the time and effort for it, they didn't pay her, though they were supposed to, and she regretted all of it.
So, now, with Internet, every blemish, every misguided mistake, every unfounded speculation, can be projected over what a person really is like or wants to be perceived by the public. Yikes.