Intenet abuses and the problems to be forgotten when wanted

"A brash website allowing users to rate Swedish teenage girls as "ugly" or "hot" based on the unauthorised use of pictures from their Facebook accounts has been reported to the police".

Source The Local, Site 'stole' pics to rank Swedish teen girls

The website is brought down now and since it was a dynamic page no content was saved in Google's Caches. Otherwise the abuse would have gone on until next indexing. Something that may take up to six months.

The owner of a website can remove content from the search engine indexes. But as victim to net abuse it is often very hard to get in touch with right person to achieve this. At big websites like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Wordpress and Google it is mostly impossible to find a helpdesk. And the support people must know how to do it. Twitter for example directs their users to the instruction below. Which no one except for Twitter self can follow since you need to own the website.

Anyhow - here is the instruction how to remove a Google search index and cached content. If you cannot make it by your own (meaning you do not own the website) try to get in touch with the support people and send them this link.

Google's instructions in how to remove from Googles cashes

I wonder if this aspect - the cached content is included in the new law proposal from EU:
Pressrelease: European Commission sets out strategy to strengthen EU data protection rules

As a victim for net abuse - you have the right to be forgotten on Internet. Instantly!

Would you like to reconnect with your dead spouse?

The men above are both living and  having a fun time.
One with and the other without Facebook

My father and mother 82 years old worried about my fathers Facebook account. I got his password and deactivated it. After about six month he appeard in reconnect suggestions box. I couldn´t investigate at that time but he disappeared again so I did not worry. A few months later he was there once again with the question if I wanted to reconnect with him. Instead of his profile picture there was that Facebook dummy picture. So Facebook knew his account was deactivated.

I did a few searches and found an instruction how to avoid this “bug”. You have to reactivate the account and send a mail to a specific address. And so I did. Then I deactivated the account again.

What if he would have been dead?
What if my mother had seen him in the reconnect box?
What if she hadn´t had his password to the private mail and being unable to follow that instruction?

If someone dies and you do a special “death report” - it takes six months before an account finally is shut down. She would have seen a ghost for six month.

Would you like to reconnect to your dead husband?

You must have the right to disappear from the net. And it must be simple!

Pressrelease: European Commission sets out strategy to strengthen EU data protection rules>

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It has to be fun, or else we cannot make it

I love the social web - especially when it brings people together

A little bit of happiness I want to share - I won the Croatian Summer Salsa video competition. An economical disaster probably -at least if you include last years travel expenses and one week of editing and rendering time. But it is worth every penny. With help of social networking at Facebook and Youtube - I am a winner even if I cannot go there and get my price.

While making movies you get so many friends. People want to chat while you record. You sometimes also have to ask about permission. Sometimes people want you to send pictures to their mail accounts.You get hundreds of business cards, mail addresses and Facebook friends.

While uploading the result at Facebook and Youtube you get twice or three times as many friends. You get to know the people in the clips, the artists and the teachers (and this is extra fun since I am a crappy dancer). At a competition like this one you also get to know the managers of the event. You become someone and just not anyone - at least if the result is good.

Despite the Croatian Summer Salsa festival was full of pain - I was ill whole week - this video makes me feel good. I remember every snapshot. That little girl in spotted dress, the street dancing scenes, the happy people, the flamenco lady, magic Nina in blond hair dancing at the poolside, the topless ladies in that small boat, the bachata ladies in the pool. Dancing, jumping and happy people everywhere.

Next year when I go there to enjoy the price I will have so many more contacts than last year, a VIP card, free classes and about half the travel expenses payed. And I will have much more fun than last year - at least if I can leave all viruses at home.

But most of all I will have more fun because I will meet many of my new social networking friends. At the beach, at salsa classes and at the parties. And at the most spectacular pool party of the northern hemisphere.

I love social networking - especially when it brings people together for real meetings!

Vacillalo Gozalo - have fun and enjoy (the video clip)

WEEEPA!!!!

first published 19/10/2010

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It has to be fun, or else we cannot make it