I was so happy when I found AC. I was in need of knowledge and support in my caregiver role.
I did find many supportive answers and have made in my heart friends.
But lately I read questions/answers that I know are not real.. How can someone be so cruel?
I know just ignore them! But they more than often ruin a question by making it become off topic..
I just don't know if ANY questions are real or not..
It's sad to think that another caregiver is where I was last year and needs support and some mean spirited person is answering their question with bad intentions....
Why do some people have to ruin a good thing?
if someone demanded i trim their nails id tell em to get f - ed but an old lady whos near blind and dying from dementia -- ill help them out . i s'pose were all different . ive changed a lot of baby diapers but adult diapers id have a hard time with .
Webcam spying was addressed, and according to the various expert(s) interviewed, it is feasible now and can be done. Whether it is, or the extent to which, is probably hard to define. But it seems to me that it would be commercial entities who have that capability, and could extend that to oversight agencies, as some communication companies have voluntarily done in the past.
Time has periodically had some interesting articles on these issues, especially after the Snowden episode.
Don't forget also the predominance of cameras in public places. In one local community here, there are 8 cameras at nearly each intersection. There are cameras in banks, retail stores...you name it. We're all on candid camera if we go to any of these places.
X-Box spying is also feasible. Although I would never consider this type of entertainment, it was surprising to me.
Not that I ever wanted a web-cam, but that's a good reason to spend the money on flowers and gardening supplies instead.
I think YouTube has made us a country of idiots trying to out do one or another to see who can have the most hits on their photos or video.
My significant other is always warning his grown daughter not to post photos of her young daughters on her Facebook page because it is too easy for someone to lift a copy of that photo and who know where that photo will finally end up.
I found this just so offensive. But unfortunately the advent of photo capable phones has allowed any one to take photos of anything and anyone, w/o permission. I doubt if there will be any legislation to address this though.
YouTube is another story; apparently anyone can upload a video. There are privacy issues here as well as intellectual property (IP) infringement. I do like to look through the ballet and dance sections, but I'm also aware that some of these videos are unauthorized and that YouTube had eventually started removing some when notified of copyright infringements.
Facebook...I will never, never understand what prompts people to share family or intimate photos online, or to post detailed accounts of their daily activities, children's illnesses, meals, animals sicknesses, and all sorts of trivia that to me would interest only their families.
I've told one of the younger members of my extended family repeatedly that there's no expectation of privacy when she uploads all of her photos online and that she's exposing her children to an openness which can be dangerous, especially given the proliferation of pornography, child abduction and other horrific crimes.
I've asked myself repeatedly, and others, but never had a satisfactory answer to the question of why people need to share so many photos of themselves and their family online. Are we becoming a nation of exhibitionists? of amateur photographers? What's the deal with all this anyway?
I'm partial not only to the dance but the music ones, although I suspect they are copyrighted. I've seen some of Scottish Tattoos with dozens of bagpipers marching into a castle that looks it could have been the setting for MacBeth.
the full Neil Diamond concert on BBC ! love it