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Honestly, I feel kind of the same way and i'm not really a big fan when I find pictures of myself online I didn't know about, but it's fairly unrealistic to bel

Honestly, I feel kind of the same way and i'm not really a big fan when I find pictures of myself online I didn't know about, but it's fairly unrealistic to believe you can stop people from doing this. Nothing was stopping people from taking your picture and posting it around town, or in a classified ad or something before, nothing's going to stop people from doing it now. The best thing to do is decide if it's a picture really worth being upset about existing and if it is, kindly talk to the people who posted it, otherwise it's probably not worth worrying about.

unfunco 6y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but for most of history there has been some sort of ceremony when taking a photo, saying cheese for example, it used to be much more obvious when a photo was being taken, and now its discrete in many situations. People that knowingly smile for a photo aren't really the people complaining.
lmilcin 6y ago
With companies assuming right to use the pictures posted on their platform it is now more complicated matter. Would you like picture of you posted by your family member on company's X platform to be used by company X for marketing purposes? I get your family member may not mind if their own pictures are used but you were never asked for permission. Would you want to be asked for permission?
logifail 6y ago
> The best thing to do is decide if it's a picture really worth being upset about existing [..] What if you've not seen the photo, don't know who took the photo, or who posted it, or where they posted it? Last year I had a drink with a group of friends in a pub, commemorating the untimely death of a friend one year before. The following day, at work, a manager who wasn't present the night before asked me about the event the previous evening. He said he'd seen me "in the photos" on Facebook. I'm not on Facebook, so I've no idea who took - or who posted - photos. Suggestions?
- grawprog 6y ago
  >Suggestions? Decide whether it's worth worrying about and if not, don't? Was your boss angry about it? Or were they just making conversation about it? One of those is worth worrying about, the other may be annoying but doesn't matter. You can't control people. I dunno, even before everyone had cameras on them all the time I was taught to assume everything I did in public could be seen and maybe even be recorded by anyone, my dad was a bit paranoid, he taught me this as a child long before cell phones became ubiquitous. It's just the way it is. If you're in a public place, people can see you, people have cameras, the internet exists. Again, I agree, I dislike pictures of me existing randomly, I try to avoid it. I'll dodge cameras and shit if I see someone taking pictures. But I know, inevitably, there's not much i can do about it. But I also realize, people tend to have short attention spans and memories and live in their own worlds so in the end it doesn't really matter and most people don't care enough to remember some random picture they seen of me anyway.

unfunco 6y ago

I agree with the sentiment, but for most of history there has been some sort of ceremony when taking a photo, saying cheese for example, it used to be much more obvious when a photo was being taken, and now its discrete in many situations. People that knowingly smile for a photo aren't really the people complaining.

lmilcin 6y ago

With companies assuming right to use the pictures posted on their platform it is now more complicated matter. Would you like picture of you posted by your family member on company's X platform to be used by company X for marketing purposes? I get your family member may not mind if their own pictures are used but you were never asked for permission. Would you want to be asked for permission?

logifail 6y ago

> The best thing to do is decide if it's a picture really worth being upset about existing [..] What if you've not seen the photo, don't know who took the photo, or who posted it, or where they posted it? Last year I had a drink with a group of friends in a pub, commemorating the untimely death of a friend one year before. The following day, at work, a manager who wasn't present the night before asked me about the event the previous evening. He said he'd seen me "in the photos" on Facebook. I'm not on Facebook, so I've no idea who took - or who posted - photos. Suggestions?

grawprog 6y ago
>Suggestions? Decide whether it's worth worrying about and if not, don't? Was your boss angry about it? Or were they just making conversation about it? One of those is worth worrying about, the other may be annoying but doesn't matter. You can't control people. I dunno, even before everyone had cameras on them all the time I was taught to assume everything I did in public could be seen and maybe even be recorded by anyone, my dad was a bit paranoid, he taught me this as a child long before cell phones became ubiquitous. It's just the way it is. If you're in a public place, people can see you, people have cameras, the internet exists. Again, I agree, I dislike pictures of me existing randomly, I try to avoid it. I'll dodge cameras and shit if I see someone taking pictures. But I know, inevitably, there's not much i can do about it. But I also realize, people tend to have short attention spans and memories and live in their own worlds so in the end it doesn't really matter and most people don't care enough to remember some random picture they seen of me anyway.