I've posted before about my concerns with sharing pictures online, but this is a whole new angle... I just joined Instagram and made it private but ughhh. So. Gross.
http://getoffmyinternets.net/instagram-becoming-ground-zero-for-baby-role-play/
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Ugh. I just made my profile private- I thought I had before but I guess the change didn't save. This is so gross.
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Gross..
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Sick. Also, I'm forwarding this to my relatives who give us a hard time about not wanting pictures of our son on the Internet.
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@mewtill: good idea!
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ick. I don't have instagram (no smartphone), but when I do, I'll be sure to make it private!
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My husband has insisted that we never post photos of a future LO online because he thinks people could do bizarre things with the photos and I've always laughed at the idea...but I guess he's right.
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WHAT.THE.HELL..... seriously? That is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
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I always watermark my photos and will do that with all future children's pics too.
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oh my gosh, that is sick
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Disgusting. I think I'll probably stop hash tagging then?
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Ugh. So sick
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@stiletto_mom: how do you watermark on IG??
Ugh! People are SICK.
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I can't read the link
it says 'incoming links to this page are temporarily blocked'
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@babyjmama: I do it in one of the other apps like LINECamera before I upload onto IG.
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@mrs. bird: says the same thing for me when I click on it
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One of the many reasons I dont have instagram and my FB is super locked down.
WTF is wrong with people?!
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oh my gosh this is sick. Disgusting. Mine is private but it makes me wonder whether I should keep my account at all.
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Read this the other day--disgusting.
@stiletto_mom: why would watermarking your photos prevent people from seeing/using them? Sure, it prevents people from legally using them for anything, but we're talking about creepy people here.
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Okay, so the link doesn't seem to be working anymore, but just from reading the comments on this thread, I'm going RIGHT NOW to make my IG private.
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@allison: You have to copy and paste the url into a new tab.
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Ugh! My IG and FB are private but family members share my photos. Drives me nuts.
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That's creepy, but not surprising. And unfortunately, that's the internet.
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This is so disturbing. Part of the reason I don't post too many pictures. Why do people have to ruin babies?!? Ugh. Makes me sick.
@stiletto_mom: That's a good idea.
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I've been way ahead of this. No photos of my babies on Facebook and I don't have IG.
A photo was stolen of Lala once from WB and put in someone's twitter account. It took some time to get sorted, but someone disturbed was pretending that my daughter was hers
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@Mrs. Jacks: oh my gosh. That's really scary.
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@Mrs. Jacks: that's so scary, and unfortunately I don't think it is that uncommon.
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The sites down. Now I'm curious!
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@Crumbs: if you just type in getoffmyinternets.com, and scroll down, it's the second blog entry
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@sorrycharlie: ok I just made my IG private!
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@Mrs. Jacks: okay, I'm officially really weirded out. A photo from WB?! I've posted photos of my LO on here... How do I get them off?!
@mrbee?
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And this is why I don't share any photos of LO publicly online. I know family members think we're weird for not putting him on Facebook, but this is part of why.
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Ugh
this is messed up
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@allison: Congrats on your 1000th post!
It was a picture I posted over 2 years ago and someone observant alerted me to the issue (thank goodness!). But as long as you are only posting photos gold on HB, you should be ok!
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@Mrs. Jacks: they weren't gold!!! Ahhh....
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@Mrs. Jacks: And thank you. My 1000th post was apparently a freak-out on Mr. Bee's wall. Yay.
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@allison: I posted back to you... you can post deletion requests on our help forum!
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