Comments on: Craigslist ad sex stunt brutal reminder to trust sparingly online http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060915/3782/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Philip http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060915/3782/#comment-331115 Philip Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:30:30 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060915/3782/#comment-331115 I don't think it's a pure publicity stunt. I mean, most guys are uncomfortable with being solicited for sex from other guys. Some are even outright violent about it. So, what motivates this guy to pretend to be a women to solicit men? Obviously, he has some mental issues. Maybe he was physically abused as a kid or maybe his IS gay. I think he was turned on by the fact that people were sending him naked pics and didn't necessarily want to be on tv, just wanted to get off. Most people are not Internet savvy. They think that just because they are on the computer, they are protected from anyone else seeing them. Most people have no idea how you can trace emails and other highly technical ways the Internet works. It's sort of akin to driving in your car and picking your nose. You think no one can see you, but they really can and are disgusted. (C)philip philipovich. I don’t think it’s a pure publicity stunt. I mean, most guys are uncomfortable with being solicited for sex from other guys. Some are even outright violent about it. So, what motivates this guy to pretend to be a women to solicit men? Obviously, he has some mental issues. Maybe he was physically abused as a kid or maybe his IS gay. I think he was turned on by the fact that people were sending him naked pics and didn’t necessarily want to be on tv, just wanted to get off.

Most people are not Internet savvy. They think that just because they are on the computer, they are protected from anyone else seeing them. Most people have no idea how you can trace emails and other highly technical ways the Internet works. It’s sort of akin to driving in your car and picking your nose. You think no one can see you, but they really can and are disgusted. (C)philip philipovich.

]]> By: Michelle http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060915/3782/#comment-309399 Michelle Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:17:54 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060915/3782/#comment-309399 I'm not sure if people go on the CL personals for sex a lot but I could see that being the case as CL doesn't require any personal info like dating sites do. I agree that these men were way too trusting and they should not have given out their personal information. Still, ones hopes it would not be used to mock and humiliate people, esp. if this is supposed to be a personal ad (personal being in the title and all). I do think that they could have taken more precautions until they knew this was the type of person they would want to interact with. There are services out there, like myadbox.com, which provide users with anonymous, disposable phone numbers and email addresses to be used precisely with classified ads, including personal ads. If these men had been a bit more prudent they would not have had to suffer the embarrassment they did. Of course this does not excuse Fortuny's behavior and his lack of any sort of empathy. His self-publicity was at the cost of other's pride and privacy and no matter how you slice it, he's in the wrong. I enjoyed this blog, thanks! I’m not sure if people go on the CL personals for sex a lot but I could see that being the case as CL doesn’t require any personal info like dating sites do. I agree that these men were way too trusting and they should not have given out their personal information. Still, ones hopes it would not be used to mock and humiliate people, esp. if this is supposed to be a personal ad (personal being in the title and all).

I do think that they could have taken more precautions until they knew this was the type of person they would want to interact with. There are services out there, like myadbox.com, which provide users with anonymous, disposable phone numbers and email addresses to be used precisely with classified ads, including personal ads. If these men had been a bit more prudent they would not have had to suffer the embarrassment they did.

Of course this does not excuse Fortuny’s behavior and his lack of any sort of empathy. His self-publicity was at the cost of other’s pride and privacy and no matter how you slice it, he’s in the wrong. I enjoyed this blog, thanks!

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