saving the stupid from themselves...

[acroyear]

...or "why the hell am I a nice guy?"

So we're at the Sprint store in Charlotte and I check out the other smart phones including the current Centro set-up (they had the lime-green variant of my new phone) and I check out the Facebook for Palm app and what do I find?

Someone left themselves logged into Facebook.

Yes, a "public" phone and she's still connected to it, with full access to changing her profile and status, full access to wall-posting her friends, and full access to LOTS of details of her friends' profiles (including any phone numbers).

Being the nice guy that I am, she's now got this likely confusing FB message from herself suggesting she not do it again (that's how I used to handle it on the vaxen back in the old days), and yes I logged her off.

I don't what to know what a total asshole might have done...I get enough "I found pictures of you at [insert random porn url here]" as it is.

Comments

[mistressfetch.livejournal.com]

Wow. She is so lucky that YOU found this and not some crazy psycho!

[dawntreader]

or some crazy psycho that would have done something mean to her account! ;)

[dawntreader]

in all seriousness, i probably would have done something similar.

only i'd have left some crazy status message that said, "[account holder] left her account logged in at the Sprint Store but a kind stranger made sure to log off before any damage was done."

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

yes. definitely that :)

[lesa.livejournal.com]

I periodically ask myself the same question of course with a different gender identity...

It's like yesterday we are all trying to take Drew back to the airport when this car in front of me was going 20 miles under the speed limit and kept slamming on it's brakes pulled over next to me at the stop light and frantically waved at me to roll down the window to ask for directions when he was surrounded by signs pointing the way...

Did I mention that his driving scared me and he about hit me twice?

Did I help him find the airport even when he about swerved into me to make the turn..

Yes, Yes..I did.

d'oh

[klytus.livejournal.com]

I work in tech support, so I am saving people from the consequences of their own cranial density on a daily basis. On the one hand, I like helping people, and I am a nice person. But at times, I start to wonder if I am *really* doing the universe any favors by being nice, or am I just enabling stupidity?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

for some people i know, i've started to take the Doctor's "one warning. that was it." approach.

Don't know about you, but...

[kiltboy]

I'm still weirded out by the fact that you "get enough 'I found pictures of you at [insert random porn url here]' as it is."

I'm just wondering what site would have naked pics of you on it? NakedMorrisDancer.com? Bells on your knees are bad enough...

Up to you how you feel about it.

[eiredrake.livejournal.com]

On one hand, you earned yourself some positive karma by not being a dick. People make mistakes. You, me, anybody. Hell I drove away from an ATM at one point and left my damned ATM card in it. My entire financial structure would have come tumbling down if someone had gotten that card - and I don't consider myself a nitwit.

But by the same token, you're interfering with the natural causality of the universe here. For every action there is a reaction. The natural reaction would have resulted in trouble for her and she would have learned from it. People continue to do stupid shit until slapped in the face with it. In my case, the slap to the face involved not having my ATM card for a week until I could get it back from the damned bank. So the likely outcome is that this person is only going to do stupid again now.

I'm not the nicest person in the world nor have I ever claimed to be. But I usually do similar things in similar situations. I'd be the one people call 'dumb ass' for finding a bag full of money and turning it in instead of keeping it. Interfering with causation can have repercussions but I find that it's nicer to not be a jackass. So, good on ya.