In the early days
of Flickr I routinely accepted contact invitations from people I did
not know. These days I am rather more suspicious and check a prospective contact's photostream before agreeing. This came about a few years back when I noticed that a perfectly sweet and decent photograph of Pearlie and Aunt
Lizzie had attracted a lot of interest. I checked the commenters'
profiles and got a horrible shock. I regret to say that these were
men with a special interest in the elderly. Each to their own, as the
saying goes, but not on my photostream you won't!
Then there were
the specialists who took, in my view, an unhealthy interest in
some pictures of my friend's horse-trodden toe. I had to block
toeamps99 - the weirdo.
In the past two
days I've had two new contact invitations both from middle-aged,
podgy men. One had only a few photographs up. They were of his wife, who looked a lot like Marcia Falkender. He seemed to welcome salacious and creepy
comments from other men about how beguiling she was. Aaargh!
Begone horrid man. And then another unwelcome invitation today from a
goofy French-sounding man. His entire photostream consisted of five
unflattering pictures of a male person, I assume to be himself, with
greasy hair, wonky teeth and fat slug lips. His interests he stated
to be swingers and teen moms - the brute! Blocked.
Does anyone else
have this problem? I do have pictures of elderly ladies, I do have
pictures of sore toes, I do have a few pictures of young women
holding babies - none of whom are teen moms. They might be teen
aunties, or teen big sisters, or teen the girls next door, or even
moms that look a bit teen but aren't and are me many, many years ago.
Perhaps I should
stick to posting photographs of Slemish and gardens and flowers as these seem
not to attract weirdoes. I can't even be sure that there aren't
people out there getting off on my photographs of dogs. I am also
going to have to consider changing my Flickr icon as it makes me look
far too free-spirited and fun-loving. Which I'm not.
5 comments:
Yes, I've had a same problem on flickr.
In my case it's four photos of Laura Ashley hankerchiefs which I posted (in my "Home" set).
I don't want to name-and-shame but they were favourited by one individual. Natural curiosity led me to their selection of "Favourites".....all of which were photos of hankies. They'd lots of blanked out photos which fell outside the safe-filter so I investigated further.....ye gawds.
101 things to do with a hankerchief.
This is actually very common from what I see, but SORE TOES?
It's a strange world.
The mind boggles! I'd never have guessed that handkerchiefs could be fetishised. I suppose a resource like Flickr must be fertile ground for those with less usual tastes and interests. Did you block your hanky (panky) person?
O Lord the depravity of some human beings! Should I post a pic of the blackened toe nail that I currently sport? I am just relieved we aren't having sandal weather as it could turn a (normal) person's stomach!
You know, it never occurred to me to block them!
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll go and do so now.
Sorry to hear about your toe Andrea. No doubt there is at least one strange and unusual person out there who would enjoying looking at any pictures you might post.
Claire - blockem!
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