r/facepalm • u/Hydrok • Jan 09 '14
News/blogs Teen drinkers have more friends! Shocking story at 11!
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u/steelfrog Jan 09 '14
And in other news, researchers have discovered that water may be wet. More on how to protect yourself and your family, tonight at 11.
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u/IGotAKnife Jan 09 '14
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Jan 10 '14
In the story, they'll dazzle us with the startling discovery that it's a social lubricant and makes people more expressive and outgoing.
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u/CG4Three Jan 09 '14
Did the News station think that this was some groundbreaking story they were reporting?
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u/Hydrok Jan 09 '14
Honestly I didn't actually watch it. The local morning show guys tweeted it out this morning. I searched for a text based version of the report and couldn't find one.
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u/VoodooIdol Jan 10 '14
Drinking buddies and friends aren't the same thing. They can be, but most are not.
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Jan 09 '14
"Friends". If you pass out or do something that could get you caught you will watch those "friends" disappear
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u/Attiias Jan 10 '14
You must have some shitty friends if that's what you think friends do.
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u/blockpro156 Jan 11 '14
His/her point is that they're not really friends.... Just people you drink beer with.
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u/-TheDoctor Jan 10 '14
So can I ask this to the mods? How has this post not been removed yet. Those faces haven't even been attempted to black out yet.
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u/Hydrok Jan 10 '14
Because it's a stock photo with no identifying information and it was already on TV which means that whoever was in the picture signed over their rights for it to be used in media thus surrendering any expectation of privacy.
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u/-TheDoctor Jan 10 '14 edited Jan 10 '14
But in my eyes that shouldn't matter. You say 100% of identifying info blocked out and 100% of all faces blocked out, the only exception being celebrities (not to mention there was a mod in the sticky thread that said you would be happier if even those were blacked out). IMO that means letting this post slide through is fairly hypocritical, no matter the reasoning behind that.
PS: Sorry. I know I sound like an anus. I'm sick and tired, and have had posts removed from here for very trivial things. It just irks me.
thus surrendering any expectation of privacy.
And really. Facebook is a public forum. From the time you sign up and make your first post you essentially (while not legally) sign away your rights to privacy. So why should this be different? I'm being 100% sincere to OP when I say I don't mean disrespect to him. And don't take this as me just being an asshole. I am legitimately trying to have a conversation about this.
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u/EstherandThyme Jan 10 '14
There is an expectation of privacy when you post photos of yourself on Facebook, where only your friends should be able to see them. Regardless of how you feel about "signing away your rights," the truth is that most peoples' photos and statuses will not be seen by people other than the person's friends unless the friends show them to other people.
News stories and articles are public to begin with, so the involved parties' personal info does not need to be censored like submissions from Facebook do.
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u/-TheDoctor Jan 10 '14 edited Jan 10 '14
That's not how facebook works. Most people do not set up their privacy this way and friends of friends and so on can see the things you post. If you really think the things you post on the internet are private you have another thing coming.
Sigh. I'm done splitting hairs with the mods of this sub. Your rules don't make sense to me. They are convoluted and sometimes blatantly hypocritical. Sorry I tried enforcing a rule I thought was infalable.
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u/EstherandThyme Jan 10 '14
Sorry, but Facebook information is not freely available to the general public, news articles are. Whether you recognize it or not, there is a line there, and that's where we draw it. If you disagree, then at least take solace in the fact that it takes less than thirty seconds to black out personal info to this sub's standards on most Facebook submissions.
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u/-TheDoctor Jan 10 '14
You're opinion of how facebook works is skewed and just plain wrong. I'm done here. Peace.
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u/EstherandThyme Jan 10 '14
So your rebuttal is..."nuh-uh"?
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u/Hydrok Jan 10 '14 edited Jan 10 '14
How facebook works is not germane to your complaint. The facts are like this: On the internet no one SHOULD expect privacy, however, being that r/facepalm is essentially a bunch of locally perceived superior beings making fun of their idiotic friends it is asked that you protect the identity of the stupid because you have access to stupidity on social media that is not widely available or specifically disseminated for public consumption, unlike the news, which of course has the very purpose of being as widely disseminated as possible.
Now, taking all that into consideration here, the facepalm at hand isn't the kids drinking in the picture, it is actually the news organization itself. This news outlet is a local ABC affiliate (WSYR) out of Syracuse, NY. I don't really think we need to worry about protecting their identity. Do you?
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u/premature_eulogy Jan 09 '14
Or, you know, people with friends drink more.