Bicol Bacation Bideo Brouhaha

Long story short: I made a video of my recent trip to Bicol, and it made some of my fellow travelers upset, either by its content or the way it was edited (the way some pictures were juxtaposed, not from a technical standpoint). Some of them are no longer speaking to me.

Short story long (Names have been "Singularized" out of my possibly misplaced sense of courtesy):

The video took 3 weeks to produce and uploaded to Facebook at an ungodly hour. Minutes later one of the girls in the video, M1, said she didn't like me putting in certain pix in the final product. In my "defense" those pix in question were my harmless way of getting back at her for putting in certain pix in her version of the Bicol vacation video that I didn't like. Requests for edit=1.

Later that morning I received a text from C --asking me to remove certain swimsuit pictures-- and from M2, in a frantic text saying C left me the above message. (Panicky much?) Requests for edit=2. The harried nature of their messages was probably because I uploaded the video for viewing for Friends instead of limiting it to just my fellow travelers, and they hoped they could get me to take it down fix it before it receives any more viewings.

I was more disappointed than mad at their reactions, especially w/ C and M2. C, embarrassed by the video, called it ugly and wanted her pictures taken out of it because she said it was her pictures. I took that to mean she was claiming ownership, w/c I had doubts about, and after checking confirmed those pics in question were shot with my camera. M2 (after calling me an idiot) clarified that C was talking about her being in those pictures, and that she had a right to ask them to be taken down if she didn't want them made public (as least in video form, 'coz she sure as heck didn't object when those same pictures were previously posted on Facebook.) True, she had the right to ask, just as I had to refuse if I thought the request was unreasonable.

And then there's R, who was in the same "objectionable" pictures as M1, on a warpath. R was mad at me (M1 just disappointed, but at least ok w/ it all now) because there was a tacit agreement between us that those pictures would not go online in any form.

Ok, they got me there. My bad. At first I privatized the video, but to avoid any further conflict (and realizing logic will never win over emotion in these kinds of arguments) I just apologized to C, R and M1 and took down the video. (Hell w/ M2, fighting C's fight when C's perfectly capable of doing it.) But nooo, it wasn't enough for R, who wanted all pictures I posted on Facebook w/ them on it taken down.

Mad and disappointed? No. Annoyed? Hell, YES. Sino siya, si Katrina Halili? I can swear on my own grave that the video is cool and unobjectionable to anyone (else) that has or might see it.

The fact that C, R and M2 are taking the same kettle-bell class as me would've made further contact awkward, but fortunately I attend the class scheduled an hour earlier. Other fellow travelers who've seen the video don't see what the fuss and bile is all about.

Long story short: I was slightly in the wrong, but made peace w/ some, while others are still in the Petty Zone. Hope they enjoy their stay there.