The Internet: Never has so much "Hooray" been in the same place as so much "Boo".

There are many advantages to the internet. Sharing of information, communication, news etc. And then there is the other side of it. I really don't care to elaborate on the disadvantages of a worldwide idea/photo sharing network, it's fairly self-explanatory. So you get the gist.

So I have this cousin. He is an incredibly, amazingly flambouyant gay 19 year old, whom I love more than anything. My other half is living in Vancouver and working at the biggest gay club in Van, Celebrities. He dances on the bar in his Armani underwear. Enough said.

Earlier today my charming diva of a cousin, B. we shall call him, and asked me to look at a certain Hi-5 (stupid useless friend sharing network thing) profile. I looked at it and saw his picture as the profile and replied, "Yes, your beautiful, what's your point?" He says, "That's not my profile."

So some strange Portugese boy got hold of a picture of my cousin, decided it was more attractive than his actual self and used it as his profile picture. I laughed at B. and told him to be flattered, and creeped out of course. Then I got curious and took a closer look at the page, sure enough, there were several more pictures. The next picture I recognized as the back of my cousin's head with a snake that belongs to a friend of his wrapped around his head. The next one I was a little less sure about, it was of a muscular man from the neck down unzipping his pants, sans underpants. I skipped it assuming, silly me, that it wasn't him. The next picture however...

(it was much much clearer on the site)

is unmistakably him, I'd recognize those lips anywhere, and I've slept on that comforter! One of the comments below read:

Julian says:
You, Tiago can come to my house any time...sneak into my room and strip off all your clothes...pin me down while I'm sleeping, causing me to wake up in confusion...then hold me down while ripping off my clothes...cover us both in warm oil (which you just happened to bring with you)...pin my legs back leaving me totally vulnerable to your every whim...then... *ahem*....*cough*.....*ahem*........
Hmm...I haven't really thought about it very much, but I think I like You! Smile

There were a lot of other interesting comments ("Wow baby show me more!!!"), but that is by far my favorite. A lot of them were also in portugese, which ruins my fun a bit. ( I now know that "labios" is portugese for lips.)

B. is just flattered they liked the picture.

After a ten minute bout of uncontrollable laughing I regained my breathe and asked my cousin how the **** this guy got a hold of these pictures. As I clicked on the next picture I realised that I had seen it before. I remember, because I made fun of him because it's a picure of just part of his face with a rather... erotic expression. They were all pictures taken on B's cellphone.

So after I was finished (for now) making fun of him for having his bush on the internet we decided to be serious for a moment. How could this have happened? He most certainly did not share those photos with anyone. They were for his personal entertainment. Yes, he's like that, and I'm sure there are other more... revealing ones this creeper could have chosen. So how?

His theory is that his computer has been hacked. I don't think so. Maybe on one of his... uh... sleepovers a guy used his computer? Who knows. Another I just thought of was when he came here for my grad he dropped his cell phone in the airport and it spent 10 days with air port security. Now that I think of it that's a pretty good possibility. That is if they pictures were on THAT phone, he has a selection.

So in order to put a stop to his little portugese fan, B. had a friend of his, his "portugese exchange student" to send him a rather threatening email. Like that will work. But it's better than not doing anything I suppose. But honestly, what are you supposed to do in a situation like this. Once a picture hits the internet, it could be in the hands of anyone. In posting it on the internet you are supposedly aware of the potential concequences. None the less people do it anyways, and are still shocked at the places they end up. A friend mine once drunkenly flashed a friends camera. A couple weeks later a girl came up to her at a party and said "Omg, I know you. You're tits are on my ipod!" that was weird. We didn't know you could put pictures on ipods. I laughed really, really hard. Gone are the days when only the creepy guy at the photo place got to see your unpleasant photos.

Regardless of how they got there, which will probably remain a mystery for the rest of our days, I will continue to make fun of B. Because his pubes are on the internet. As if I didn't have enough things to make fun of him for already ( dancing on bars in his underwear for example). This one is pure gold. Nothing he ever does can top this, that is until his debt finally reaches the extent to which he is forced to start making gay porn.

Excuse me while I submit to another ten minute bout of hysterical laughter.

P.S. I posted the picture only with his permission of course... idiot.