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

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.