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The Snoop Next Door Is Posting to YouTube

Posted by Zonk on from the get-off-my-lawn-you-damn-kids dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Your most trivial missteps are increasingly ripe for exposure online, reports the Wall Street Journal, thanks to cheap cameras and entrepreneurs hoping to profit from websites devoted to the exposure. From the article: 'The most trivial missteps by ordinary folks are increasingly ripe for exposure as well. There is a proliferation of new sites dedicated to condemning offenses ranging from bad parking and leering to littering and general bad behavior. One site documents locations where people have failed to pick up after their dogs. Capturing newspaper-stealing neighbors on video is also an emerging genre. Helping drive the exposés are a crop of entrepreneurs who hope to sell advertising and subscriptions.' But other factors are at work, including a return to shame as a check on social behavior, says an MIT professor."

12 of 244 comments (clear)

  1. in other news.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ceiling cat is watching you MASTURBATE.

    1. Re:in other news.. by aonifer · · Score: 4, Funny

      *masturbates even more furiously*

  2. Re:No problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, YouTube watches YOU!!

    Shouldn't that be, "In Soviet Russia, TubeYou!"

  3. Public space, public faces by symbolset · · Score: 2, Funny
    Recording what people do in public is, er, in the public domain*.

    * This bikini cam brought to you by the Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. Visit scenic South Florida!

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  4. Re:No problem? by X-treme-LLama · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't he look vaguely like Mike Holmgren, but with a semi-mullet?

    Yeah I've googled it now, but that's what I remembered from before hand. Fairly close if I do say so. :)

    However in general you have a good point.

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  5. thats why i never go outside by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    thanks, i'm already a shy-antisocial-recluse-hermit, now i have more reason to be a paranoid-shy-antisocial-recluse-hermit..

  6. Have to say it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new McCarthyistic videotaping overlords!

  7. So... by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do we shame people who post on YouTube?

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  8. Re:No problem? No shame. by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey everyone! I illegally download from Sealand.

    Me too. Yesterday I downloaded a mermaid. Should I be ashamed?

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  9. Re:No problem? by springbox · · Score: 4, Funny
    Whats worse is that there is a real chance he will be denied a job because of it.
    Only if his chosen profession happens to be dancing and/or acting..
  10. Re:Exactly. by TempeTerra · · Score: 2, Funny

    "CAN YOU HEAR ME KNOW"

    I feel your pain. God damn but it pisses me off when someone's shouting on a cell phone and they can't even spell right ;)

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  11. Re:No problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Tube, You Russia!