It is always risky to upload your personal pictures on to someone else’s servers, but private pictures are exceptionally risky.  You are somewhat at the mercy of what that person or company does with the pictures.

For whatever reason, MySpace and Facebook users don’t seem to understand this, so they upload all sorts of pictures that are probably better left on their hard drive and out of the public eye.   My general rule is if you don’t want family and even potential employers seeing these pictures, then you probably shouldn’t upload them.

One service that proves it can be done is MySpace Private Profile.  Simply visit a MySpace page and grab their ID number, then punch it in on this site and you can view all of their private pictures.  I tried it twice before writing this post and it works flawlessly.  In the two private MySpace pages I visited I saw pictures of underage girls passed out holding alcohol and something else that I will leave up to the imagination.

Moral of the story?  Don’t upload anything that would embarrass you on to the internet.

[via CyberSurge]