OnlySimchas

i don’t think it’s for us to judge, you don’t have to put up pictures, if the people want to they will, andif not then they wont.$

it depends on the pics. the mushy ones we can do without, but the regular ones are very sweet, and this way we don’t have to go in2 facebook and get stuck there. like i say, if you don’t like it, don’t go in2 it. i would takeh like to see these people’s pics. 3 yrs. later. are they still smiling?

i once saw my pic up by my friends vort-i was ready to kill her…so now whenever i go into any pic by a vort or chasana i always make them promise that its not going to find its way to onlysimchas or anyplace else on the internet!

flatbush – I agree.

Ames: ok

Amichai: ur last comment was deffinitley uncalled for!! Seriously!!

BS”D

It seems to have lost its popularity in my community; perhaps there was an incident. In so many families that I know, older siblings had OS pages when they got married and the more recently married siblings did not have them.

I think you are making mountains out of molehills. If it bothers you, why are you even on the site? IMO, you shouldn’t post pictures of your own, there. It’s not creepy, it’s not untzniusdig (unless the picture itself is tasteless), it’s just not your thing. I have never heard of anyone having trouble with OS, but if any ex’s are writing on people’s message walls and it BOTHERS them, I am sure they can report it to OS, and that person can be denied access to the site. The Jewish Press is widely read, and also posts these pictures.

ames, that’s because guys don’t go on the site

even if the pic is not tasteless its still not tznius for the whole world to see you.

Flatbush, what defines “the whole world”? How many people looking at a picture of you is tzniusdig and how many is not? Perhaps no pictures of women should be posted in a home, so that male visitors don’t see the pictures?

ames, plenty of guys go on the site. they just dont comment on it

“It seems the people who use OS like having pictures posted as many post their own. The site caters to the users of the site, not the minority.”

i think there are many more people on the site who do not have their pics posted than those who do so the site should cater to them and stop posting pictures (except maybe baby pics)

not e/o whose simchas are posted know about it or even read it(i personally think its obnoxious when u post pic of the chosson and kalla w/o them knowing) there have been plenty of times when i had to print out my friends os page for them bec they dont have accesses to the internet or a few weeks ago my friend told me that she just saw her os page for the first time(and now she has 2 kids)

tzinus lady,I am sorry to inform you that you can’t promote your website. If you want to place and ad, please contact the Yeshiva world. I think I saw you promoting on another thread.

thanks for pointing that out. its been removed. -YW Moderator-25

Ha Ha Ha.

BS”D

A lot of times those pages are started by well meaning friends and relatives and when the couple does not want them up people either do not comment or they ask that the pics be taken down or changed.

You can set up a page for anyone and it is taken down only if someone complains. I was a victim of a prank pulled by a gang of stalkers I had been trying to bust and a friend saw it and reported it – only way I knew was when my friend told me about it. I then asked that my name be banned from OS until further notice and they complied.

I also tried a Purim prank a couple of days before Purim 5767 by posting the infamous pic of the new Homon Mad Mahmoud hugging his kallah M.A.F. as a chassune between the chosson from Teheran and the kallah from Vienna. It was promptly taken down :(.

mazel u forgot 42 and 55 lol

who thinks the baby pictures are creepy, in the pictures in the hospital????

I have always had mixed feelings about OS untill I saw something that really disturbed me. Someone had a bunch of wedding pics up and on the guest page a person- Presumably male, posted “hey, I dont know you and i am using s/o elses screen name to post but whose that georgeous girl in picture #x”- I am not joking!! then, in that picture he inserted himself using one of the features where a box encircles a face in a picture and has that persons name at the bottom. in this case, he didnt put a picture of himself, rather just the box w / the “fake” sign in name he was using, as though he was “standing” next to her.

Even if it was a joke, the whole thing was extremely distasteful and bordered on being crass.

wow, i see i opened up here a can of worms..not sure what i did to set everyone off. we should hear bsuros tovos. i really think the thread should be on modern technology, good or bad. or rather, what are we doing with it.

chasid: that is really disturing, thanx for sharing it with us.$

mod25: wow, first nite on the job, and already being a good boy.$

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flatbush27: there is no such thing as a bad mod, i’m just saying that he just started, and he’s already doing good things for us.$

Flatbush, why not email onlysimchas totell them of your concern? If enough people do that, then they may decide to remove pictures.

One reason I like pictures is because it helps you identify who the person is. I am sure there are a lot of “Chani Friedman’s” from Flatbush. How would you know if you should call and congratulate her? Maybe its a different person and calling her might make her feel bad because “yet another person got engaged before her.”

BS”D

SJS – what one of the Chabad sites does is list both chosson and kallah as ben or bas their fathers because we have so many people with similar names (Chani bas R’ Mendel Cohen to Mendy ben R’ Yossel Katz)

All OS would need to do on OS is add an option to enter that info for chosson or kallah.