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FB Image abuse. Let's discuss.

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First, read this:

https://www.tinstarphoto.com/blog/

It's long, so if you don't have time, the skinny is that she is just a random person who started getting people ?subscribing? to her Facebook updates although she doesn?t have a public page.  Then she started getting lewd emails and phone calls.  Come to find out, someone had taken a screenshot of her Facebook profile PS'd her face onto nude pictures (not her) on a website that posts exists only to do this to people.

She writes that she's untagged all of her FB pics, has taken down pics of her kids, and has taken down her private blog about her kids.

It's scary and I would never want this done with my pic or of one of my DD.  Now I am thinking of taking down my stuff.

What do we think? 

EDITED: Ok, so her face was not PS'd onto the pics, apparently (I haven't looked at them).  I guess someone thought that she was the one in the pics, so they posted her FB page with her contact info and then posted the nudy pics by the FB screenshot and so people who go to the site think that it's her. 

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  • el_twirpoel_twirpo member
    i think it's pretty rare for this to happen, but at the same time, i just don't trust facebook and rarely post pictures. their privacy policies have been atrocious. this hasn't stopped me from blogging or posting photos on a separate server though. i feel like i have a little more control over that content and have ways to track traffic.
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  • ec3under4ec3under4

    I post pictures all the time to facebook but have been thinking about it a little bit more lately.

    The problem that I see is that there are creeps anywhere so what's to say that protecting yourself on fb is going to make a difference in the world we live in? Does that make any sense?

     I have known 2 people who have had their identities stolen on facebook. In both cases, someone hacked into their accounts and stole all their information and then created a seperate page with a different name that had ALL the same infor/pictures as them. That is super creepy to me.

    It's such a tough call because we live in an online world, there really is no way around it if you want to stay connected to people you know. I do have a blog but I never post the address anywhere and I don't even use my kids names on it. Who knows if that actually makes a difference but I feel better about it. 

    Seriously though, I'm a bit of a badass so if anyone tries to mess with my kids I will hunt them down and cut off their balls...that's just how I roll. 

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  • MrsMillerTimeMrsMillerTime

    Her situation was a little unique because someone googled her full name and landed on her FB page.  She runs a business so it is "important" that she be searchable via the web and unfortunately because she shares the same first & last name as some creep's ex, she got targeted.

    If you google my first name & last name I'm nowhere on the first several pages (I check kinda regularly).  I keep my FB page on lockdown and regularly check/update my security settings.  I don't use my last name on my blog (which is unsearchable, too).

    My point is that while it sucks what happened to her, because her name is "out there" on the internet because of her business, she's an easier target.  That's not to say that it will NEVER happen to anyone else, but if you're vigilant about keeping your full name off the internet you're less likely to be targeted.

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