When the Ugly Bug Ball announced its first engagement I was compelled to see what it was all about. The couple in question announced their engagement a month after meeting.
A website designed for the ‘aesthetically challenged’ was quite intriguing so I decided to take a look. BIG regret.
Within minutes of setting up an account and having it all approved by the powers that be I began receiving ‘Winks’ and ‘Private Messages’ from random people up and down the country. Not willing to pay for anything I could only see the subject line of these messages, all of which were harmless and boosted my ego no end.
Only problem was I had forgotten that if you posted images on a public domain they could get picked up via external sources.
Imagine my mortification when less than a week later, website completely forgotten about, I received a picture message from an ex boyfriend with caption ‘recognise someone’.
The image was from an email received as part of a monthly subscription to FHM magazine and at the bottom was my happy smiling face under the title ‘The Dates’. I was FULLY clothed.
Having since been completely ribbed by all my male friends about having to succumb to an ugly people dating website to try and find a date I soon learnt that I was not the only one to have an innocent image appear, unknowingly, as a space filler.
An acquaintance revealed how she had but some images of her boyfriend in his boxers on Facebook and a month or so later he appeared on an advert at the side of the page.
So beware of putting up pictures in a public space as you never know what they are going to end up being used for.
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