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Sometimes I feel as if I'm the only one who feels this way, but people who post photos of me on their Facebook without my permission is peevish. Especially if, in the picture, it's clear that I didn't want it taken in the first place. It's gotten so bad to the point where I don't want it on there even if I appear photogenic.

But I'm not sure which is worse; when the friend refuses to take it down, or when they bitch about how I'm taking things too seriously, and it's just a picture.
By the way, I take photography very seriously. I can't help myself.

How do you all feel about this topic? I know I must sound like I'm overreacting, but eh.
 
I know that I hate it when people post pictures of me when they know I hate the picture.

Then they tag me in a photo and then I un-tag myself etc. It's a never-ending cycle of bullshit.

My friends know how I feel about my high school photos and therefore should respect my wishes and either crop me out or just take the whole thing off. <_<

So I agree with you on this topic very much so.
 
I guess I don't exactly care about this. I'm not the type to attract attention from just my photographs anyway. Plus, I'm not that much of an attraction as a person, so this could serve as publicity, in a sense... Which then, again, probably doesn't do much to attract attention.

In short, I don't give a hoot about what pictures they put up of me. Anyway, the chances are rare, since I have a super uncanny ability to avoid getting photographed. (They always snap me as a blur, or that I move out of the picture before they could)
 
There's always some embarrassing picture or other of me being put up on facebook, but it doesn't really bother me, I don't think other people particularily care about it either...and if it's a shocking one, it'l get a few laughs, and I'm ok with that too. Ive probably untagged like one picture of myself from years ago hahah I hate that pic, but other than that, Im not really arsed at all. If someone asks me to remove a picture of them Ive added, I'l just remove it. But generally, I don't care. We all agree that if there is something we REALLY don't want on there, we will remove it. But that's never really happened yet. It's pretty much the same small group of my friends that will be adding them anyway
 
Okay yeah, I'm the same way about pictures, I don't consider my self photogenic at all & when my friends take pictures of me I usually delete them from their device unless I really like the picture which is maybe....2 about 15 times.

If they post a picture of my on their page without my permission I don't freak out but I do get a little annoyed at it. In the end I forget about move on about it, sometimes I say somehting to them and sometimes I don't. Most of the time I don't say anyhting.
 
If they're insistent on keeping them up, report them for abuse or something. I'm not that bothered, I've never been in a horrible sticky photo situation.
 
My friends all had facebook before I got it so I initially felt a little funny about it when people uploaded photos with me in them. But I got over it quickly and when I actually got facebook (only recently) I realised that it wasn't really a big deal to me at all.
 
Ah, the good old day of Myspace and Facebook. I remember when I had one... Every now and then I would have a friend do the same to me. Most of the time I would ask them to remove it and they would. However, I remember this one case, where I had a friend snap a picture of me while sleeping.

I had asked him to remove it, which he refused, and we had a huge fight about it. So, the next day when I saw him at school, I punched him in the face and demanded that he remove it or I would kick him somewhere where he wouldn't recover.

He took the picture off, and I lost a friend that day. I really don't care though. Because if a friend is going to disrespect your wishes like that, then they aren't much of a friend now are they?
 
Tsukianei said:
Ah, the good old day of Myspace and Facebook. I remember when I had one... Every now and then I would have a friend do the same to me. Most of the time I would ask them to remove it and they would. However, I remember this one case, where I had a friend snap a picture of me while sleeping.

I had asked him to remove it, which he refused, and we had a huge fight about it. So, the next day when I saw him at school, I punched him in the face and demanded that he remove it or I would kick him somewhere where he wouldn't recover.

He took the picture off, and I lost a friend that day. I really don't care though. Because if a friend is going to disrespect your wishes like that, then they aren't much of a friend now are they?
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Thank you. I agree. I think the big thing here is how they don't respect what you want in the first place. Also, once a picture is posted on the internet, it's there forever -which is kind of a big deal to me.
 
It can sometimes be annoying in the sense that you have no chance to choosing a photo they would upload, and hence any photo of theirs with you in them could be absolutely awful. However I guess, since that is what I look like, there is no need to be angry. Instead I guess I should be happy that people are including me enough to even tag me as being present.

I have had one or two photos that do not do me justice whatseoever, and I've been tagged, but I haven't complained about it (though I died a little inside). I wouldn't want to cause a fuss in moaning to the person or untagging myself and making the person feel bad / make things awkward between us.

Instead I come up with a justification for why I might have looked like that in my head, so that if people come at me saying "ha, you looked like that" I'll have something to say.

Then again, for me, photo tagging doesn't happen often as I don't get out much at all. When it does happen it is very rare, and usually I am just honoured that the person considers me present / worthy of being noted.
 
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I don't mind if friends Tag me in their pics of Facebook, it seriously aggrivates me if i ask them to remove it and they don't, but on the other hand that has only been the case a couple of times, and so i have had to resort to blackmail to get them to take it down, (you have dumbass pic of me, then i shall post this one*flashes horrific pic of said person*) But when i ask my friends to take the picture that i don't want on facebook off of it, they have done as quickly as they can (i like to think this is because im a good friend and nobody wants to lose my friendship, but i think it's because i can be a lil aggressive when asking them to remove it.

Another thing that annoys me is people tagging me in photo's with dumbass statements like "describe me in three words" or even "Describe me in one word" It's like i could describe that person in however many words they like, but their not gonna like what i come out with, and i can't put what i wanna put incase a parent or younger sibling stumbles across the picture and gets offended.
 
Two words "Remove tag" :mokken:

We all have the same problems ;)

EDIT: Please put a little more effort into your posts so that they do not become spammy. Thanks. =)
 
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I've never had a problem with people putting pictures of me up on Facebook, in the right situation of course. If someone just randomly took a photo of me and put it up I'd be like "Eh...what?" but photos taken of me usually incur me being pissed at a party in which everyone in that situation knows at some point they'll have photos taken, and the chances are pretty high of them being embarrassing. Of course, it's all in good spirit, as friends I don't expect them to take it in a serious manner, so neither do I :-)
 
I'm not bothered by it. Thought I'll admit, that if I look absolutely awful on a picture I'll untag myself.

EDIT: Please put a little more effort into your posts. Such as why you're not bothered by people tagging you without your permission etc. =) Thanks.
 
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I'm not really bothered tbh
If its a picture where Im smilling with my friends so what if I look retarted
It reminds me I had a fun day that day :S
And I remember once I had the gayest face ever on a pic and the bastard wouldn't take it off :rage:
Thats the only thing bad about it.
 
I hate it when Im tagged and not asked. 1 ex tagged me in aload of cuddly photos of us after we broke up and I was in a new relationship! It caused chaos and I demanded he remove them, he wouldnt, so I de-tagged myself. But its a pain when someone has taken a horrid or embrassing photo of you and puts it up there for the world to see and lark at. So I try and de-tag myself from the ones I hate!
 
Well, it depends what I'm doing in the photo...for instance, my mate took one of me yesterday that I wouldn't particularly want on Facebook...
 
Catnip said:
Sometimes I feel as if I'm the only one who feels this way, but people who post photos of me on their Facebook without my permission is peevish. Especially if, in the picture, it's clear that I didn't want it taken in the first place. It's gotten so bad to the point where I don't want it on there even if I appear photogenic.

But I'm not sure which is worse; when the friend refuses to take it down, or when they bitch about how I'm taking things too seriously, and it's just a picture.
By the way, I take photography very seriously. I can't help myself.

How do you all feel about this topic? I know I must sound like I'm overreacting, but eh.
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I don't believe you're overreacting. If someone took a bad picture of me, posted it all over their Facebook page, then refused to take it down upon my request, then there'd be a nasty problem. Stuff like that ticks me off. It's even worse if it's apparent that you didn't want the picture taken in the first place. It shows that your friend is probably posting it just to get on your nerves...

It's common courtesy to make sure the photographed person is okay with having their picture displayed somewhere where tons of people can view it.
 
Down here where I live, it was explained to me by a lawyer that if someone takes your picture, with or without permission, and posts it on the internet without your permission, it can be considered an equivalent of attempted rape depending on how bad it is.

He went on to explain that if the picture is humiliating in any aspect and you demanded it off and they wouldn't listen, that's a lawsuit.

If it's a picture of you naked, that's the equivalent of rape. That's a lawsuit and some jail time.

Anyway, just some fun facts that I found interesting.
 
Ya'll do realize there are ways to maintain privacy options within Facebook right? I myself don't post a lot of pictures on Facebook because some of them are not deemed appropriate for my coworkers. (since quite a bit of people on there are coworkers) I mean I never tag anyone unless of course it is a "Work Related" event.

I hate being tagged, so I make sure to hide most pictures from other users by using the privacy features. Also to those who have ex problems, delete their handle on facebook.. and their friends. It makes it easy.
 
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