*234 - voyeurism

This is OLD NEWS but about the kissing couple on Stomp? I can't help wondering every time he walks into the canteen with his girlfriend and Tubby booms "LOOK IT'S HIMMM" whether he knows his photos are up on the net? Or imagine if his parents find out! :
Well everything about the couple's actions has been said and discussed and that's all very well, so I'm just looking at the issue from another angle - Don't you think it's a little mean and voyeuristic of the student who sneakily took photos of them? I guess nowadays with all those nifty little cameras and handphone cameras, it's so easy to anyhow take photos of people. I mean, if I found out that someone took a random photo of me slyly eating a burger under the "no food and drinks" sign in the MRT or something and posted it up for public criticism I would feel horribly, horribly embarrassed and ashamed about getting caught of course, but also terribly violated.

I don't think it's nice to take photos of people just to put them up for public criticism. Increase public awareness of social issues, yes, but maybe a little more discretion? Discussion is fine and rude bashing is to be expected but no need to single out one poor soul for humiliation. Use the photo to get your point across (it sure worked, haha! Who didn't get the goosebumps?) but maybe like blur out the facial features or something? I don't know. It's not so bad if it's on a blog I guess, because chances are you won't find out about it, and what you don't know won't hurt you haha, but on somewhere like Stomp which has a huge viewership, it's really quite bad.

Do you think respecting privacy (even if the person's doing something wrong or offensive) and having a little kindness is very much less important than acting appropriately in public? I'm not sure myself. Just a little rant from me. Somehow don't think anyone will agree with me though haha.