It is amazing the random things people put on the internet. Quiet often they don't realise that anybody can come along and see it. Take images for example such as are on the image hosting site imgur. Normally they are behind a random string of characters so you can't just guess a url and see a picture. Then take a clever person who works out the rough algorithm and writes a small program to find these pictures and display them randomly as demonstrated in this link. You end up with a random gallery of the strangest or most normal or downright crude stuff put on the internet where anybody can see it even if you didn't intend it to be that way in the first place.
So what does this tell you about people? They don't understand technology that well? They have no regard for their own personal privacy? People have extremely weird tastes in what they like to look at? A lot of what people put on the internet is incredibly dull? Take you pick of any or all of those I suppose.
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