Tag Archive 'photos'

Embarrassing Photo #10: Then We Ordered Another Bottle of Tequila, and When I Woke Up One of My Kidneys Was Missing

dan tynan on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, yahoo, youtube

It was a vacation she’d probably rather forget. When Janet Dudley-Eshbach, president of Salisbury University in Maryland, created an album of her family’s trip to Mexico on Facebook in October 2007, she didn’t expect a local TV station to broadcast the photos to the world, or to have a Wikipedia entry covering the mini-scandal. [...]

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Embarrassing Photo #8: No Nudes is Good Nudes

dan tynan on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0

Here are two quick rules of thumb. If you’re going to teach art to high schoolers, try not to post nude photos of yourself online. And if you must teach art and pose in the nude, don’t do it in Texas. Tamara Hoover found this out the hard way in May 2006, when she [...]

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Embarrassing Photo #2: Quick, call 911 - my pants are on fire

dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0

Now that an ex-beauty queen is running for the VP slot, life may be easier for hot mommas who also happen to be office holders. It will be too late to help Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, though. The former mayor of Arlington, Oregon, got in hot water with her constituents after a family member posted photos [...]

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Embarrassing Photo #1 - Hey Kevin, Tinker Belle wants her outfit back

dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Da Web, Foolishness, Lists, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, youtube

It’s bad enough to dress up like you’re about to slip a dollar under some toothless child’s pillow. But former intern Kevin Colvin made it much worse by asking his boss at Anglo Irish Bank if he could take time off for a “family emergency in New York,” then flitting off to a Halloween party [...]

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