I generally don't even make photos of my children public. Nor do I even talk much about them publicly.
The people who are interested in seeing them are people that I know and are connected to me through the various social networking sites that I publish photos for immediate connections only.
My reasoning is there is just too much to go wrong by being public with this information/data and at the same time there is nary a benefit. There are all types of predators on the internet and I wouldn't want pictures of my children causing any prompting in them to attempt to seek them out. Couple that with sharing too much information about them publicly and a would be predator could easily assimilate a story to make my children feel like they were known by me or my wife. Creating a since of safety and familiarity with them should they be approached without my presence.
This is actually a big concern I have for all the "mommy blogs" out there where parents openly share a TON of information about there family publicly when wee ones are involved.
Maybe I am overly paranoid, but I rather be faulted for that, than to have something happen to them.
Dave Delaney
· 9 months ago
Yes, that's also an option too of course. Good point.
C.C. Chapman
· 9 months ago
I take the same approach you do when it comes to this for the EXACT reason you raised.
I've talked about this before, but I don't understand why Flickr has not integrated a trackback ping similar to all blog platforms so that when a photos is embedded it would let you know. Sure, you wouldn't know when people download an image,but it would at least help with some of the notifications and I would LOVE to know if people use one of my CC licensed images, but it would also wake some people up to them needing to change their licenses.
Dave Delaney
· 9 months ago
Great point C.C. I would love to see that too. It's too much trouble to go into statistics to see if your photos are being used. You would think Flickr could implement RSS, eh?
nicholasyoung
· 8 months ago
They are owned by Yahoo! after all. Even though their CEO is kickin' butt, I still don't see them being as big of a player going forward.
Dave Delaney
· 8 months ago
It'll be interesting to see where Yahoo! goes. They are making big moves in mobile, which is wise.
TheJennTafur
· 8 months ago
Unfortunately I know that anything I put on flickr or on any web sharing (photo) website is going to be taken by someone. I stopped using my flickr account after reading all these reports of individuals sharing with me how their pictures were being taken without their permission although they had indicated All Rights Reserved with the Copyright Symbol.
If you don't want your pictures taken then be like Patrick which is not to share pictures of certain things or people. I've taken this route. I've been seeing a lot of pictures of kids on flickr to the point that someone had created a flickr group of children's pictures they found on flickr. I only found this out when I had shared a picture of a family friend and I quickly took my picture out of flickr not thinking that someone would do this.
This is why I won't upload pictures of kids or people I don't know. I take more pictures of objects than people. You have to be careful nowadays.
Thanks for sharing..
Dave Delaney
· 8 months ago
True. I still think sharing some photos of your children is fine, however be careful how you tag them. Don't ever use "children" or "kids" as a tag, perverts subscribe to searches like that. You can also go into Flickr and look at your Statistics to see if your photos are being used elsewhere.
Cheers.
TheJennTafur
· 8 months ago
So true! Thank you for the tips. I stopped tagging my photos after I saw all this go down.
I was unaware of using the Statistics to see if my photos are being used elsewhere. I have fortunately been approached and asked to use some photos and I am thankful for that.
But, I have been uploading my pictures to Snapfish and I only share with my family who I know will only share with family members. But then again I know those pictures can be shared too. The real gems I don't share!!!
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The people who are interested in seeing them are people that I know and are connected to me through the various social networking sites that I publish photos for immediate connections only.
My reasoning is there is just too much to go wrong by being public with this information/data and at the same time there is nary a benefit. There are all types of predators on the internet and I wouldn't want pictures of my children causing any prompting in them to attempt to seek them out. Couple that with sharing too much information about them publicly and a would be predator could easily assimilate a story to make my children feel like they were known by me or my wife. Creating a since of safety and familiarity with them should they be approached without my presence.
This is actually a big concern I have for all the "mommy blogs" out there where parents openly share a TON of information about there family publicly when wee ones are involved.
Maybe I am overly paranoid, but I rather be faulted for that, than to have something happen to them.
I've talked about this before, but I don't understand why Flickr has not integrated a trackback ping similar to all blog platforms so that when a photos is embedded it would let you know. Sure, you wouldn't know when people download an image,but it would at least help with some of the notifications and I would LOVE to know if people use one of my CC licensed images, but it would also wake some people up to them needing to change their licenses.
into statistics to see if your photos are being used. You would think Flickr
could implement RSS, eh?
moves in mobile, which is wise.
If you don't want your pictures taken then be like Patrick which is not to share pictures of certain things or people. I've taken this route. I've been seeing a lot of pictures of kids on flickr to the point that someone had created a flickr group of children's pictures they found on flickr. I only found this out when I had shared a picture of a family friend and I quickly took my picture out of flickr not thinking that someone would do this.
This is why I won't upload pictures of kids or people I don't know. I take more pictures of objects than people. You have to be careful nowadays.
Thanks for sharing..
careful how you tag them. Don't ever use "children" or "kids" as a tag,
perverts subscribe to searches like that.
You can also go into Flickr and look at your Statistics to see if your
photos are being used elsewhere.
Cheers.
I was unaware of using the Statistics to see if my photos are being used elsewhere. I have fortunately been approached and asked to use some photos and I am thankful for that.
But, I have been uploading my pictures to Snapfish and I only share with my family who I know will only share with family members. But then again I know those pictures can be shared too. The real gems I don't share!!!
Thanks, Dave! xoxo