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The legal bit
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The legal bit Apart from when someone says 'Hitler did have some bright ideas you know', something that will really put me off someone is if they have one of those lengthy legal disclaimers on their profile. Especially if this turns out to be longer than the text about themself and what they're actually looking for. Why does this touch a raw nerve? Well, for many years anything that can be digitised - photos, text, audio, video - has been misappropriated and distributed to parts of the internet you can't reach or will have no control over. This renders legal disclaimers thoroughly pointless. So those big music corporations that used to turn over billions of £s and have large teams of lawyers, how are the copyright notices on Youtube working out for them? Not great! They're not going to work out for you any better. If someone is determined to use your pics they will, and if they're smart they'll end up on a website powered by a server in another country where you can't enforce anything. Unfortunately this sly, underhand process is sustaining the 'revenge porn' websites you might have heard about lately. It doesn't give you a great feeling inside when you learn this but I'm afraid it's true and until the internet makes radical changes this won't change. Your disclaimer is like answering a nuclear warhead with a spudgun. Legal disclaimers on profiles aren't just naive, they're a brainless way of filling space and pretty much demonstrate that the people using them have nothing to say about themselves, or aren't willing to. Why are you here? I'm here to make friends and meet fabulous people - when was the last time you were turned on by a copyright notice? The use of disclaimers is closely allied to the paranoia and egotism that is often justified to be covert about identity. Recently in a chatroom I said that single people always have a good reason for not having face or full length body shots on their profile (i.e. they knew they didn't look good and were lying about their age), a particularly crap couple chipped in that people didn't want to be recognised in their local Tesco's. I know it was bitchy of me but I responded by saying only good looking people from the website got spotted by others so they were perfectly safe. If you're going to look for reasons not to be open about who you are, what you want and what you look like don't expect much from the people here who are willing to put themselves out there. So let's drop the legal notices and communicate with wit, warmth and charm - you never know it might get you somewhere. |
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Even worse, those disclaimers makes people look kinda dumb because it means nothing. *Eons* ago (like maybe a decade because in Internet time that's a eon) someone began suggesting people add this to profiles on VisionPersonals.com and other sex sites. They didn't so it out of concern but to trick folks. If someone put that on their profile, other people could do a google search and find all of the accounts with all of their nude pics and sex videos  I'm a grad student and I can tell you that there have been numerous articles written about VisionPersonals.com. Students have that right. They cannot use pictures, direct quotes from profiles, groups or blogs or real screen names or any other identifying information without a person's consent. However, anything a researcher can find in a google search (and it's pretty amazing what people don't lock down) is fair game for different types of analysis. I'm not interested in any guy who sports that notice on his profile.
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I didn't know it was an attempt to trick people but the bit at the end of some where it says 'It is advised other people post the same' I find to be particularly irritating! I'm not good at taking orders at the best of times and the idea these disclaimers serve any useful purpose is ridiculous.
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"Legal disclaimers on profiles aren't just naive, they're a brainless way of filling space and pretty much demonstrate that the people using them have nothing to say about themselves, or aren't willing to." Now, now, Matt, not true of everyone, myself included  Not to mention rather rude! I may have to remove you from my Christmas list  I also have my own version of the disclaimer, just for my own amusement, on my profile  "I'm always disappointed when a liar's pants don't actually catch on fire..."
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Lol I do tend to upset everybody sooner or later so it was bound to happen Holly  My point really is that these disclaimers don't work anywhere - not on websites like these, not on entertainment sites like Youtube, or even at the bottom of work emails - you know the ones saying the content of your email is confidential - they're a waste of time too. If I'm trying to be rude it's towards lawyers who build their part up when they know these disclaimers are pointless and the masses of people on here who have one liners of literary genius such as 'will fill in later' in their profile text, and then a disclaimer . . . despite the fact they don't have any pics anyway.
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