When Facebook goes wrong...

Earlier this week I picked up in my Facebook feed a picture of a guy I studied with at university.

I will spare him his name, but he is now doing a very similar job to mine at a large London ad agency. In the picture he was totally naked, part from a dust mask on his face and a large power drill in front of his own personal power drill...

His wife posted the photo, not him and someone tagged him in it for the whole Facebook world to see.

This is why when I talk about trends, I say that in my opinion I think that we will probably move from a time of Radical Transparency to an era of Refined Privacy in which we are not quite so keen on sharing everything with everyone all the time.

Anyway, the pix certianly brightened up a rainy morning!

Comments

[Nicola]

That's hilarious! I am constantly 'cleansing' my Facebook pics now I'm using it for work purposes too. Though there's still some pretty dodgy ones!!

[John Dodds]

What type of drill?

[El Gaffney]

i was just having this discussion at lunch - not about nudity but about taking back a little bit of privacy (can you shut the door half way, por favor) and on facebook in particular. i've been starting to catalogue some of the more interesting movements in the livefeeds that come thru on the homepage. pics can be the most "revealing" or damaging for sure - though we just hired an intern who is doing a keg stand on his profile image.