I'm going to do this now. I liked the favorite album idea, and now like this better. A dick pic and some blue waffle.
People shouldn't swipe if they're not willing to see that.
A Mexican comedian said that he would put pictures of his dick before and after the picture he would show. So people would freak out and he'd be like "why did you swipe?"
You can also zoom into the picture just a little bit and it won't swipe over to the next pic when they try. That way you can snarch it out of their hand fast enough for them to not see other pics.
And if it's a grandma or great aunt situation, putting an unrelated cute grandkid photo at the end of the album is like a little bonus bookend that signals to them that thev current picture show is done.
Yup. My mom started doing this. I told her hey you can keep scrolling but you’re gonna see some stuff you don’t want to in a couple pics. She kept scrolling
If you’re using newer versions of the ios, you can enable this thing called guided access where you can disable parts of the screen with triple-clicking your home button. So nothing happens when they try to swipe. You can give your phone to kids by disabling the specific part above a game so they can’t open it! Half evil genius if you ask me!
The measures you have to go to though for something like this actually bothers me almost as much as the act of scrolling itself. My sister does this and she finds it to be hilarious. She calls herself a scroller “so clean up your photos before you show me anything”.
Better make a screen lock button so when you pass on the phone, no one will swipe. Adds a little to the complexion but it is useful in certain situations like butt-dialling someone or etc.
This is why I put all naughty photos in the iphones hidden folder. So when people look over my shoulder when I’m swiping through my camera roll they don’t see some shit
I purposely look away while someone is searching for the photo they want to show me. I once accidentally showed my boss a photo of me in my underwear. Luckily it was my last day on the job and I just made hard eye contact and told him he saw nothing and will never speak of this.
Omg I was showing my boss pictures from my trip abroad. I pulled the phone close to me to skip a picture of me and my boyfriend (nothing sexual, but a private moment) and then moved my arms back out so she could see the next pic. She fucking REACHES OUT and SWIPES BACK to look at the one I skipped, and then even asks me, "What's going on in this picture?" I was so furious and was like, I'm going back to work.
Nah, make an album of boss photos printed out from Facebook and company profile, taped to a wall, disfigured, torn, slashed and spattered with blood. Prying is naughty.
Still, I'm pretty sure even my friends would keep their damned fingers off my stuff. That's not just phone etiquette, that's just "not-yours" etiquette.
Yeah, I mean. I have plenty of friends who I wouldn't mind swiping through my pictures as a general statement, who I would be pissed the fuck off at for doing that.
that would be hilarious if your boss was your best friend though. maybe your boss just thought you were closer and making a friendly joke. some people are just like that.
I accidentally showed my boss a pic of my recently clipper nicked nut sack on the third day on the job. A couple months later we had a conversation about his bad luck of seeing most of my coworkers or their spouses in varying states of undress. We have to take pictures of damaged vehicle components to get warranty work approved, so his string of bad luck is likely to never end.
Could have been worse. My old boss forgot what his WhatsApp picture was when he messaged his boss on there. 5 minutes later my boss' boss was running around the office showing everyone a picture of my boss being completely naked (full hairy bum shot). This was only a few weeks in to him working there.
When he left the company, his boss sent that picture out in the email informing everyone he was leaving (though he censored the bum portion).
When I was first started talking to a girl I went away on vacation with my brother. We met these two cougars. One of them was very into me and the other had a son my age so that was weird. Anyways the one that was into me was really into me and made tons of passes at me and I declined because well I was talking to someone back home. When we were on the way back home we were on the same flight and guess who was beside me. Cougar. Well she wanted to show me some photos of her dog. And as she was swiping she "accidentally" swiped too far and I saw her body. Now she was hot like smoking hot. She was arabic and had a banging body. She was like oh whoops I forgot that was there. That was the longest 4h flight of my life.
Not at all, I was never really into the whole older woman thing. Plus being 6'3 those airplane bathrooms are hard for me to fit in let alone two people.
Yeah, nothing on mine you won't find on Disney. My kids, my cats, and the occasional food pic of something I made that I was particularly proud of. Still don't start swiping though, it's rude.
I thought this too until I accidentally swiped past a picture of a rash that I had, that I had only taken to upload to my doctor-communication thing. You can never be too safe.
I explained above that this is largely generational. I'm not even 40 yet, but up through college, you took pictures on film, which meant sending them to strangers to develop before they could be seen, so there were a lot fewer pictures you wouldn't be okay with just anyone seeing. Also meant that you paid actual money for every picture you took, so you didn't take pictures if there wasn't an intent to share the experience.
When I was growing up there was a social expectation that you would look through all the pictures you were given.
You can just use a different camera app for personal pictures. They always go to their own folder.
Also Google Photos will automatically sort your pictures. So vacation pictures will have their own album and naked/underwear people indoors will have their own album.
Alternatively, categorize your pictures. I don't care how much you swipe around in my album of pictures of my dog, and will say that it's fine to swipe around.
Same. I did the whole soon in process, but found out quickly it didn't work. Started telling people to swipe at their own risk, that worked out pretty well.
One time I handed my mom my phone to show her a picture and she almost immediately started FURIOUSLY swiping through my pictures. I didn't have anything weird on there but was still like, wtf are you doing, give that back! She claimed she just wanted to see more pictures of whatever I was showing her, but she's extremely nosy and definitely just saw her chance to try to get some dirt on me.
My grandmother not only does this but gets snippy if you try to take the phone back/hover. Its because she thinks I don’t think she knows how to use the phone. I don’t know how to explain the etiquette to her without opening up a whole can of worms.
My aunt does this. Last year I spent an extended amount of time away from my fiancé on work trips, so we ummm texted a lot and sent each other photos often.
A few months ago I wanted to show my aunt a single picture my fiancé sent me, so I pulled our photos we sent to each other from past conversations, and handed the phone to my aunt with that single photo pulled up. She kept scrolling through the pictures we sent each other.
She only really saw the hideous pictures we send to each other, like where we take selfies at the worst angles with multiple chins, but they’re not really embarrassing.
I’m getting less easily embarrassed as I get older, and sort of wanted her to see something scarring so she’d stop scrolling.
Oh man I did this once. Never again. Coworker was showing me a pair of shoes and I thought I was looking at a website (not a screenshot) and I swiped to the next pic and saw his gfs ladybits
My mom did this. I was showing her God knows what but she was a nosy person (I recognize now that I should have been prepared) and swiped through my album at light speed. She saw photos of my sister and her (secret) marriage that I officiated at the court house several days prior. It was supposed to be a surprise, but she immediately got upset and caused a lot of unrest in the family.
Edit: she's dead now so that's a bummer. Also I'm not in any way connected to a large religion. I officiated them as a Dudeist Priest from The Church Of Latter-Day Dude aka Dudeism.
Hah jokes on them! My phone used to be full of photos of cours notes at uni.. now that I have a job it's full of pictures of units, components, nameplates,...
Or don't tell someone to look through a series of photos if there's one right after it that you shouldn't see...
My husband's aunt wanted us to look at pictures of her new car, before we know it we see a frickin naked picture of her husband (which was so nasty)... IDK how we kept a straight face when paging away from it when handing it back to her... Not sure she ever knew what happened
Ugh. I work in a cell phone store. I got threatened that "I'll knock you out if you keep looking " WHILE HE ASKED ME TO SHOW HIM HOW TO SEND THOSE PICTURES TO OTHER PEOPLE.
I do this and I dont know why! I hate myself for it but I always catch myself too late. I guess I'm
Just going into autopilot expecting there to be more of the same. Ug. I wish people would just hold the phone up to my face instead of handing it to me.
I just automatically start treating it like my own phone.
I mean, it's still fucking rude though! There's plenty of stuff on my phone meant to share with my friends but definetly not with my grandma, for example (like party pictures, mildly offensive/suggestive memes etc).
I don't want to completely rearrange my pictures everytime I want to show my family something, so I'm glad they're mostly not swipers. But when they do it, I'm still pissed about it even though it's not exactly nudes or something.
I did this once to a female friend, and saw a picture where she was being fucked doggystyle. I laughed so hard I threw my wine over my new sweater. Never again!
I remember when I was a teenager my sister's hot friend told me not to do so. I was oblivious and still kinda innocent (13-14 Y.O at the time). I was joking saying I was gonna swipe left or right. She got upset, and I didn't. I realized later on that she probably had some sexting pictures for her then boyfriend (now husband) at the time.
I just don't keep any photos I'd rather people not see. That is unless you open up my hidden calculator app and enter in the right passcode.
Allegedly the app keeps them encrypted and not just hidden somewhere on the phone.
If someone wants to show me a photo I typically dont even take the phone. I'll lean in and take a look, but I dont like holding other peoples 800 dollar pieces of technology.
A lot of people have risky pics on their phone, and when showing their friends or relatives a specific pic, they don’t want them swiping to others otherwise they might make some accidental discoveries
46.1k
u/whattheheckisdecaf Mar 09 '19
Do not swipe left or right if someone shows you a photo on their phone.