Why do young people always post pictures of themselves online?

They could easily be remembering what you look at and saving it to their spankbank

This one doesn't sound very likely, anyways; but they could've easily clipped their picture out of your yearbook

I don't think the average person posting a picture on Facebook runs into this problem.

Yearbook.

Likelihood?

Likelihood?


I have a question for you - are you this paranoid of all technology? All of this is possible with ANY picture; none of it is likely with any picture.

 

pictures are worth a thousand words. you can tell a lot about a person from a picture that you cant get totally from forum posts. it gives your posts some context when you know what the person posting looks like.

 

And if everyone you knew played with dynamite or drove their cars over cliffs would you do the same???

Plus I would bet that WildFlowers deleted her Facebook acct for the same reasons I am considering deleting my Facebook acct. I have heard several less than favorable comments towards Fb concerning Americans and their civil/Constitutional rights. In other words (for example) if the Justice Dept [read that Gestapo/SS, enforcement arm of the Police State of] our US Govt asked Fb to turn over all of your Fb activities WITHOUT a search warrant Fb would roll over on all of us, theoretically.

My offline friends know me as a loud and proud redneck who loves to smoke a hooter or a bowl. Now I am on a few sites where I don't want anyone knowing I smoke the herb and it sure as Hell AIN'T THE GOVMINTS BUSINESS!!! But hey that's just me.atriot: I can kinda see why young ppl would go bozo nuts with Fb, Twitter and other social networking sites. But that's just not me. I would rather have 4 or 7 REAL FRIENDS than a thousand online pals from across the planet.

I got chores that need doin'.:hippy:

 

But they do NOT have a photo of you to "refresh" their memory or pass around do the?

I don't know about you. But I'm not in the habit of handing out copies of my "yearbook" to people I don't know. And if I did send someone a copy of my yearbook. I pretty certain that the postal service wouldn't keep a copy of it and print up a terms of service agreement that says I give them complete rights to use my yearbook photo anyway they want to.

Register a female facebook account and see for yourself how many men are just trolling it for webcam shows on MSN. I've already seen Facebook's performa synopsis. It's a real piece of legalese and marketing art. But if you know how to read past the crap; more than 65% of their traffic is generated by men searching for some sort of piece of ass.

See above response about the yearbook. Now add, if somone did steal my "yearbook" photo for the above mentioned purposes. The perpetrator is likely know and most likely in the same nation. Allowing for some sort or jurisdictional legal recourse.

Whereas a perpetrator based in Russia has to be first located. Add problems with treaties, different laws and the legal costs associated.

It happens all the time. I just got a woman who foolishly answered one of those emails off with 25 hours of community service and a promise to pay back her bank a portion of the money she inadvertently help steal by giving them a fake check.

By the third correspondance, the victim and the con-artist exchanged photos and the vicitm truely believed she was talking to a "good christian woman" with 3 children. All the photos that she was sent came from Facebook.

Now perhaps you will never be sucker and fall for one of these scams. But how would you feel if you knew your photos were used to help screw someone else?

Happens all the time. And not just viagra or penis pills. For example, there is a family of 3 that had their photos taken from a flicker account that are now being used in a supermarket in the Czech. And considering the costs, etc. There isn't much they can do about it.

Just because your car can do 150mph does NOT mean you should drive that fast.

This has nothing to do with technology. It's a question of common sense and understanding that other people are going to use the tools that are put at their disposial in way that are very much different from intended use.

Technology is tool and nothing more. It is neither a "lifestyle" nor a solution and it doesn't make people act nicer toward each other or embrace a dichotomy of altruism.

A good example is a recent story of a man that beat his girlfriend's 4 year child with the joystick from an Xbox. I think it's safe to say that was not the game maker's intended use for the equipement.

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V.O.T.

 

Of course the FBI and the CIA are using Facebook to their advantage. And there is really not much anyone can do to stop them. Legally there is nothing requiring any law enforcement agency to get a warrent to purchase information from Facebook. And Facebook can sell them the information without hinderance. If you're thinking their "Terms of Service Agreement." Think again. A TOS is only a one way list of rules that anyone subscribing to the site/service must obey.

Also I hate to say this but your personal information legally stops being "personal information" the moment you tell someone. So if someone scaned in their drivers license and put it on Facebook. Guess what?? It stopped being "personal information" the moment they clicked submit. In a court of law, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Same can be said with your photos, highschool information, hobbies, etc.

Facebook's claims and phrases about "personal" information are just legalese hogwash. Get it straight in your heads. If you put it online, it's no longer your personal information.

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V.O.T.

 

I meant from other copies.
The highschool's copy, their copy, their cousin's copy, their mother's copy.

My point is that there are pictures that the average person has out there, that could easily be used without their consent; the Internet only makes this idea more clear.
But in most cases, the damage these pictures (and their unauthorized use) can cause is pretty low. If one is to follow a profession like teaching or with high moral standards; then it might be raised some; but it just seems rather paranoid, to avoid putting your picture out there in the event that someone will use it or jerk of to it.

How likely are you to know, to seek legal recourse?

At least we agree on this much.

 

The simple fact is that criminals look for easy targets. A yearbook photo or similiar medium is not an easy target. In 1995, it was perhaps 1 or 2 cases a year in my office. Today there are lawyers that deal only in this area. I hate to say it, but photo theft is a growing industry. Both from a criminal and lawyer point of view.

I touched upon it in my last comment. People using the photos of other people for "other purposes" is growing at an exponential rate. I compare the problem to someone smoking cigarettes. Each cigarette they smoke, they're increasing their chances of cancer. Similarly, with each photo you put on line, you're increasing your risks of having something come back to bite you in the ass.

It depends on who and circumstances.
Perhaps you don't care if you're only Joe the shmuck living in a trailer park and someone steals the photo of your 13 year old daughter in a bathing suit in order to pimp out Russian hookers. But if you're a Baptist minister it would probably change.

Also keep in mind that technology is changing real fast. Photoshop of today is not the photoshop of yesterday. Think about it, one day Joe the Shmuck's daughter might be marrying a very rich man and socialite. But surprise!!! Someone filmed a porn and managed to put her head on the main actress.

So keep that in mind because everything you put online today is more or less permanent. And there will be programs that capable of doing things to photos we have yet to even imagine.

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VOT

 

Yes but it could also compromise your privacy!

 

Are you aware that your facebook account really isn't deleted. What Facebook does is it archives your accounts. So if they ever need to. They can re-active your account with a couple of clicks.

 

nope i hate posting pics of myself on line much rather remain anonymous

 

I know far too many girls from high school who have an entire album or two dedicated to the duck face + hand on hip self-portrait cell phone shot in front of the mirror. And, without fail, these girls always have people boosting their egos with compliments. It's stupid, it's annoying, and I'm glad Facebook has that feature that allows you to hide certain people from your news feed.

 

Thats why you REMOVE EVERYTHING YOU CAN FROM YOUR ACCOUNT BEFORE CLICKING THE LINK BELOW.. (Your linked accounts,etc)

http://www.************/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

THIS WILL DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT!!!!! (Make sure to clear it out first!!)

 

I got news for you.
Removing everything from your account won't make a difference. Facebook backs up their site twice daily.

All your photos and personal information remains in their possesion forever. The game that Facebook, Google, etc are playing to is to keep a record of everything. In layman's terms, no more deleting of anything.

Privacy laws are pretty simple at their base. That is everything is personal and private until you tell someone. Publishing your personal information as in a service such as Facebook and you have zero rights to call it "private and personal."

 

me too..although I have posted some tid bits


and testicles :biker:

 

But posting like this instead, eh?

Joke of the Day:
"If "CON" is the opposite of "PRO", what is the opposite of PROGRESS?"

Ha,ha, ha,... ha. We're funny for money.

 

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I love it...

Because Im an attention seeking piece of shit

 

There are a few reasons I like having pictures online.

I get most of my recent pictures from others (fb) because I've never wanted a digital camera enough to buy one

They can be stored online and my egomaniac part of my brain likes knowing they would likely be stored and preserved throughout my life and beyond

I always play the role of myself on the internet, habitually honest, pervasively flawed, pathologically defiant, chronically humiliated, and also, I have this face...

 

LOLOL! Very clever.

 

Because they want to impress other people.