In an age where everything we do is online, how careful do we need to be? Many people have begun to upload and share their photos online. Photo sharing started mainly between photographers and teenagers. However, this trend has quickly caught on and now is being used by even the most computer illiterate people. My mother the other day sent me a link to the photos she uploaded. This coming from the woman who needs to call me at school when she is having trouble logging into her email. Everyone has caught on to photo sharing on the Internet and many have used sites such as flickr to do so.
So back to my question, how careful do we have to be? Recently there have been many stories of people, including marketers, taking pictures of children off these sites. Personally, I feel that these people have no right to reuse a photo of a child other than that of there own, but these people are not socially responsible enough to recognize that. The people we are talking about range from marketers all the way to sex offenders, because they don't see the wrong in it, we must take our own action to stop it. That means using security settings to protect our photos against these kind of lurkers on the Internet.
Even on flickr there are settings that allow you to protect the pictures that you post. The strictest setting flickr offers is Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. This means that people are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work as long as they attribute the work and do not use it for commercial purposes or alter, transform, or build upon the work. Although this setting protects against using your photos for commercial purposes, as you can see they can still be used for other things.
My recommendation, post photos on sites that password protect your photos, a site that is by invitation only, or a site that you can change the settings to make restrictions against who views your photos. Facebook even has a setting which members can switch to so that only their friends are allowed to view their pictures. As long as you trust the people you are friends you should have no reason to believe that these photos will be reproduced.
Inspiration for this post from SlackerMama.com
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2 good posts
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why slacker mama as a source - maybe it's worth a post of it's own?
to promote yourself ont he blog - maybe it should say somewhere that it's about marketing to kids, your experience (in general), maybe your career goals?
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