The Fappening: Reaffirming Man's Ruthlessness in 2014

"The Fappening" happened.

"Finally" some Reddit users are saying. Yes, finally. Finally we have bold evidence that humans are the most inhumane of creatures.

The Fappening is rape from a distance. It is cyber-molestation, a complete expulsion of privacy and a discharge of decency.

The Fappening will be remembered as the day mankind devolved into a gang of horny and greedy degenerates who jumped at the chance to degrade a group of women, worldwide.

This is not pornography, this is a disgusting sex crime in which everyone who views the photos partakes.

I saw some of the pictures yesterday. I observed and commented and even laughed. Can you believe that? I fucking LAUGHED at a fellow human being whose most private moments were stolen from her.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. THIS IS NOT OK.

I feel so strongly for these girls. This is not just their bodies. This is their minds we are ripping away from them. And I am just as guilty as the rest of you spectators.

So why did I do it?
Shock. Awe. Curiosity and the complete relief that it wasn't me.

Well guess what.

It WAS me. A few years ago, when I was barely 19, I was at a Halloween party and my phone got stolen. Now at this time, I had had a long-term boyfriend of two years, and of course, some photos had been traded between him and I. So what happened when my phone was stolen, and the photos with it? Well the person who took my phone, opened my Facebook (I was constantly logged into my account as it was an app on my cell phone) and uploaded, to MY OWN profile, nude photos of me.

What did this look like to everyone else but a slutty teenager who got drunk and posted nudes of herself online?

Needless to say I was devastated. I ripped around and deleted every photo that had been posted. Luckily (as if anything was lucky about this situation), it was two in the morning on Halloween, so it was not the prime time for Facebook. But believe me, there was enough attention given (many repulsed, and many [repulsively] aroused responses) to really get into my head.

That was MY body. Those were MY photos. And it was me at my most vulnerable, on display for every person I knew to see. It was horrendous. The following week at University and the reoccurring scrutiny that it brought to my loss of dignity made it worse. It took me a long time to get over that violation and rebuild my self-respect.

Now for me to imagine what these girls are going through, how the ENTIRE WEB-ACCESSING WORLD can see them naked without their permission, that is fucked up. That is horrible. That is rape from a distance, and every fucker out there who jerks off to these women is violating them without their permission.

And maybe you think I'm just disgruntled, maybe you think I'm overreacting, maybe you think I'm a self-righteous female, but fuck you for doubting for one second the shame that this brings to everyone abusing this defamation. Fuck. You.

You are an asshole. I am an asshole. We are all a bunch of fucking assholes armed with computers and cruelty.

Take it from someone who's been there; This violation of privacy, even on a small scale, and especially on a large one, is a brutality that deserves objection.

Sincerely Disgusted,

LF

The Interwebs: Internet Tips and Tricks

I'm on the internet a lot, almost all the time.
Whether I'm stumbling, blogging, researching, or just downloading, I'm pretty much connected to the world wide web in some way or another. I'm no expert on the topic, but here a few very simple tips to utilizing the way you surf the web.

#1) Use Google Chrome.
Some of you use it, most of you have heard of it, all of you need to get it.
Google chrome is faster, cleaner (in general appearance), a safer for your computer than any other browser out there. And after a short amount of time, when you open google chrome, a list of your top visited sites is compiled. So you're just one click away from hotmail, facebook, stumble, blogger, wherever you usually go.
But my favourite thing about google chrome, and some other browers try to do this, is that your address bar is google. No more wasting precious seconds of your valuable browsing time by going to www.google.com first, that's old news.

Here's a brief visual comparison of some technical stats of chrome vs. other browsers:

http://cdn.clickonf5.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1503_performance_comparison_of_web_browsers_large.jpg

Another nice thing about chrome is that all of your recent downloads are lined up along the bottom of the window, so no need to hunting to find where the files have saved, which for me always seems to be the weirdest places. It's weird to go through your "resume" folder and find a picture of an underwater marshmallow staring out at you.

Underwater marshmallow

#2) CTRL ALT DEL your history.
So you don't actually use that command, but you should still be clearing out your history regularly. And not just so that your girlfriend doesn't find your recent redtube views. Your regular internet browsing can start to load up a cache of cookies, temporary files, and stored graphics. Clearing all of this will help your browser run more efficiently, and these little things can add up to some used space on your hard drive. If your like me, there's a lot more important stuff you need to save on your computer than the last person's facebook page you creeped.

3#) Organize your bookmarks.
This one depends how often you're on the web, and what you use it for, but creating folders in your bookmarks can be insanely helpful. I used to bookmark here and there, but soon I realized I had 50 bookmarks, and no idea what they were for. So I sorted them out. I have a few basic folders that I'm constantly adding to, 'books' 'movies' 'misc' 'wish list' etc. But this can also help a great deal if your researching for anything. Make a folder for your project, ex; 'why ginger kids cry' and start your browsing. Every page you use, bookmark it. You never know when your going to need to go back to that information. This really really comes in handy when you need to write a bibliography for an assignment too.

#4) Youtube to Mp3 converter.
Do you lurrrrrve free music? Were you sad when Limewire shut down? Have you been looking for an efficient way to get your tunes? Well here you are!

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

This website is easy to use, and handy as fuck. Just go to youtube, look up the song you want, and copy&paste the url (video address in your address bar, just in case you're over 45) of the video into the bar. And shazam! You have your very own mp3 of the song that you want. No money? No problem! And this is where google chrome is nice, because all the songs you just downloaded are now lined up nicely on the bottom of your browser.

#5) Peer Boosting
If you ever download movies, music, or anything else that's perfectly legal* off U-torrent Bit-torrent or any sort of torrenting website you know some downloads can be a bit lacking in the seeders section. There's a way you can help pick up the speed of your downloads. All you have to do is right click your download in the torrenting program, and open it's properties. A list of website url's should be in a box called "trackers". Now copy and paste this list under all those other sites, and voila! You have created a lot more resources for your download. Make sure there's an empty line between each site.

http://tracker.publicbt.com/announce

http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce

http://tracker.ilibr.org:6969/announce

udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce

udp://tracker.ilibr.org:6969/announce

http://nemesis.1337x.org/announce

http://genesis.1337x.org:1337/announce

http://exodus.1337x.org/announce

http://fr33dom.h33t.com:3310/announce

http://www.h33t.com:3310/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://tracker.torrent.to:2710/announce

http://bt.rghost.net/announce

http://pow7.com:80/announce

http://tracker.ex.ua:80/announce

http://tracker.torrentbay.to:6969/announce

http://bt1.the9.com:6969/announce

http://bt6.the9.com:6969/announce

http://linuxoid.in:4443/announce

http://tracker.torrentbox.com:2710/announce

http://mixfiend.com:6969/announce

http://sombarato.org:6969/announce

http://dl.viewcave.com:4425/announce

http://tracker.hdbbt.com:6969/announce

http://3dfreedom.ru:6969/announce

http://bt.rutor.org:2710/announce

http://opensharing.org:2710/announce

http://umunu.com:1984/announce

Like I said, I'm no expert, but these are the things that I find really useful in my virtual surfing. Cheers!
-Foxx

*Not even legal in the least.