"...don't do anything stupid that might come back to bite you in the ass."

The problem with that (aside from the fact that most people have done at least one really, really stupid thing at some point) is that many people consider parties to be a private place where they can kick back and relax, let off steam, and not have to worry about someone a decade later looking at every detail of a night when that person was 21 and single and very, very drunk. It's kind of why you can do things at a party that you wouldn't want to do in Times Square. Except, thanks to people who have an obsession with documenting the minutia of other people's lives, everywhere effectively is Times Square now.

It's always been an aspect of our society -- of any human society -- that things you do eventually get left behind as you grow and change. It allows people to grow and change, instead of being locked into the person they were in their youngest years. Our social institutions, our relationships with each other, even, yes, our employment, are all based around the idea that things we did back in the day will eventually recede into the past, to be replaced by the things we've done recently and the people we are now. This is changing, and changing fast. More importantly, it's changing faster than the society built around its opposite is adapting. That lag is going to cause some significant problems for a while. Probably for at least a couple of generations.

Some of the best parties I've been at have no-camera rules.

d-bags that feel its their right to record things without consent can gtfo. nobody needs you around putting others privacy in jeopardy.

I suspect once the novelty with hipstermatic pics and facebooking everything subsides, we might see more of this (camera-free zones).

People need / want their fun without it causing trouble for years after.

also consider as you age,you have more to lose.

Max Awesome: I could feel people around me getting impatient while waiting for me to get out of the frame so they could get their shot. (We're Canadian, so everybody was still polite about it.)

The people that want everyone to get out of the way so they can take a picture of themselves in front of the tanks absolutely get ignored by me. I don't care if they're impatient or not. Fact is, it's a public exhibit and it's there for everyone to view, not for your own personal photo opportunity. I'll make room for people to view the exhibit, and try not to linger too long holding up a spot if it's extremely busy, but I'm sure as hell not completely clearing the way for a group photo opportunity, and neither should others. Apparently these people don't realize no one cares about seeing 100s of pictures of them standing in front of random places anyway. Ok, we get it, you went somewhere. But they're all pictures of you looking exactly the same as in the last 100 pictures, and you're blocking anything that may have made the picture worth viewing to people that haven't been there. I don't care to see more than one photo of you standing there posing like a guido, or making a silly face or hand gesture that you apparently think your friends will find unbelievably amusing or awesome.

/rant off

Dont go skinny dipping at a party or have sex with someone you might want to forget about later or any other crazy, fun, one time thing. McManus might exersize his god given right to video you doing it and post it somewhere to teach you a lesson about blowing off some steam or enjoying yourself.

Life's farking hall monitors, so much fun to have around.

Lunaville: As for Mugato, he has a point. Generally, people go to a party to have fun. They will tell more jokes than usual. They might consume an alcoholic beverage. Frequently, party attenders will flirt with others. You seem to be suggesting that people must now keep a firm grasp on the corn cob up their butts when attending a party because you want to continually film and photograph others without their consent. You must be a boat load of fun at a party.

I do a lot of photography for fun and I rarely bring a camera out at a party. I consider it very rude to put things up on facebook without asking permission and sharing the photo with the person I've taken. Especially if they could be incriminating. In ubermoralistic America, I think I'd ask no matter how innocent the photo is.

If I'm partying with them, I obviously don't hold enough malice to want to see them fired.

That all said- I won't be surprised when first lawsuits come out against the "publishers" of photos that have cost people their jobs. There's a reasonable expectation of privacy at a party (ie- not published on an international scale), publishing random photos from a party is not in the public interest so can't be protected by that. You've not obtained a model release form, so publication is out on that level as well.

Basically, by the rules of professional photography, you're not only a massive twunt if you take photos at a party, you're also heading up a certain creek and throwing the paddle away.

McManus: "No, there's a difference between people attention-whoring about every aspect of their life, and what Mugato did, which was complaining about people filming him at a party if he did something stupid. And I'd hate to have your job, where holding a beer is frowned upon. Do you work at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?"

Seriously dude, do you ever actually READ Fark?! Look up Ashley Payne, and then Google "potential employers check Facebook" and have at it.

Well, I'm glad that all we had in college were pagers.

I still say my old boss had one of the best senior pranks. She and some friends stole a skeleton from one of the science classes, threw some old clothes on it, broke into the old gym that was being remodeled and tore up one of the walls, threw in the skeleton, then boarded it back up. The next day the local police were there, the county coroner was there, took them all a few minutes before they realized the skeleton was wired up. Great prank, they weren't even mad about it.

I beg to differ, subby:

Car completely assembled around flagpole by morning, and principal didn't even suspend them

McManus_brothers: I love how me saying "Hey, maybe doing stupid shiat is a bad idea" has apparently turned me into Niedermayer from Animal House. You guys really crack me up!

you're a dildo.

mialynneb: McManus_brothers: Mugato: McManus_brothers: Here's a concept, see if you can follow me because I know it's complex: don't do anything stupid that might come back to bite you in the ass.

You forgot ", Citizen" at the end of that.

Really? You think because I'm saying that maybe doing stupid shiat at a party and not expecting there to be unfortunate consequences is a bad idea, that makes me some Big Brother-style blackshirt? Ok then.

I mean, honestly, that's your argument! You should be able to do stupid shiat, and get away with it - but boo farking hoo, all those people with camera phones!

So because people can't feel the need to not take a dump without texting/tweeting/FBing it everyone else should have to be on the look out? Seriously? I'm not a farking celebrity and don't need my picture taken and then tagged when I'm enjoying a beer. Some people, like myself, have jobs where that shiat is frowned upon. Grow up and put your damn phone away. If you feel the need to chronicle your life fine but not everyone feels the same. It's about respect.

No, there's a difference between people attention-whoring about every aspect of their life, and what Mugato did, which was complaining about people filming him at a party if he did something stupid. And I'd hate to have your job, where holding a beer is frowned upon. Do you work at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?

Stinkyy: RoyBatty: Bslasch: And they'll sing for weeks without food or water.

You do realize that scientists have decoded what they are singing, right?

Singin bout bonin?

Singin. bout. bonin.

And that dude that keeps rattlin' on about everyone not doing anything we might regret later so he can take pictures or video with impunity, get real, little Cindy Brady, get farking real.

Fluorescent Testicle: If the student got a laugh out of it: Funny prank.

If he didn't: Not a funny prank.

There was another person involved. Unless both the student and the unnamed woman got a laugh out of it, then it's not a funny prank, and whomever recorded the tape should be sued, charged, and castrated, in any order.

RoyBatty: Mugato:

The whole sharing of photos thing is just beyond me.

Go to lunch with friends -- take photos -- share on Internet??

Do anything at any time -- take photos -- share on Internet??

Still seems like a really strange and narcissistic act.

I went the the Aquarium this weekend for the the first time since sharing photos on Facebook became a thing, and I managed to annoy a bunch of people when I walked up to the tanks to actually look at all the amazing the fish and jellyfish.

Apparently the thing to do is to get your taken in front of the tanks to prove to your friends that you were there and then move on to the next exhibit photo location without actually looking inside the tanks.

I could feel people around me getting impatient while waiting for me to get out of the frame so they could get their shot. (We're Canadian, so everybody was still polite about it.)

I didn't care. I was there to see the damn fish.

Could have been worse... Doctor Who could have been on.