Beauty Queens Lose Crowns, Privacy on the Internet
There have been many reports in the news lately of beauty queens whose title is under attack or whose crown has been taken away due to unladylike photos or other information surfacing on the internet.
Miss New Jersey and her blackmail issue is only one of the more high profile, recent cases.
Our local news just last night mentioned a local county fair beauty pageant where 7 of the 8 contestants have their myspace.com and facebook.com profiles marked “private”, so only their friends can see them.
Girls, wake up. If you are beauty queen material then you ought to know that your circle of friends includes some who are just waiting for an opportunity to put a knife in your back.
If winning notoriety in a pageant is high on your list of importance in life, then maybe you will have to sacrifice having racy photos of yourself, your underage drinking and where your boyfriend puts his mouth in public available in high resolution on the internet.
If you think marking your myspace or facebook entry “private” is really that secure, then think again. MySpace has been hacked before at the server level, you don’t think there is someone who can hack (or guess) your password (No1Queen)?
I suppose you regularly login to your internet blogs, websites and spaces over WiFi at the campus? That’s secure.
Information that is sitting on any server attached to the internet is NOT private. Learn that now.
The internet is not, nor ever will be (IMHO), known for privacy. If you don’t want the photos in the tabloids, then destroy them.
Better yet, don’t indulge in the behavior that will get you de-throned in the first place. Almost everyone has a cell phone or other camera device; and if it’s not that it could be a security camera, and the people with access to those tapes are not always stupid - they know opportunity when it knocks.
Knock, knock.
