Online photo trouble

LegacyUser

A friend of mine put a photo of me up on bebo without my permission. It's a little embarrassing so I got him to take it down as soon as I noticed but I keep finding it up there and people have even started using it as their profile pictures. I don't even know most of them. I really want this to be gone but I have no idea how I'd go about this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

star-pants

I assume by the fact it's an embarrassing picture to you -- means that other may find it amusing? hence their usage of it as a profile photo?
Unless you email bebo and send the photo & see if they can do something about it, I doubt there's a whole lot you could do. By contacting people you don't know and possibly even people you do know, might just make it worse (as in they think its great the more you protest).
I recall a friend of a friends pic being up (possibly of him on the loo I can't recall) but on LOADS of his friends profiles, so when you saw a list of friends, twas all the same pic. But after a while - they got bored of it and moved on.

I know that's not a whole lot of consolation to you -- as it's a picture without your permission. But perhaps the bebo moderators might be able to help?

humanji

You're screwed. There's no way of getting everyone to take it down. The three choices that I see are 1) Ask everyone to take down the photos, 2) Report them on Bebo in the hopes that the admins will remove the pics since you didn't give permission (though I can't see that happening), 3) Ignore it.

giveersumwelly

As already mentioned all u can do is send bebo an email and ask them. they usually respond within a day to u. u never know they might be able to help u out. also u could report the people that have took the photo of your friends page....can u give us an insite into what the photo involved it might not be as bad as u think......joke!!!:eek:

dame

What age is your friend? Repeatedly putting a photo back up when you've asked him to remove it is extremely juvenile. Either that or he isn't really a friend at all (or maybe he's very immature and not really a friend). He doesn't seem to care very much about you, your feelings and your reputation. Why did he put the photo up in the first place? It's one thing finding funny/embarrassing pictures on the web and putting them in your albums, but it's a whole other ball-game putting up pictures of your friends that will compromise them.

Conor108

Shouldn't the photo have it's own image url? And the people's profile pics are just hotlinking off this one image? I think if bebo took that link down, it would automatically be removed from everyones profile. IF thats how it works. I can't be sure so yeah send them an email

Nevyn

You own the rights to your own image and you just get bebo to take it down.

eamoss

Conor108 wrote:

Shouldn't the photo have it's own image url? And the people's profile pics are just hotlinking off this one image? I think if bebo took that link down, it would automatically be removed from everyones profile. IF thats how it works. I can't be sure so yeah send them an email

Just checked that there but yea that is how that it works the photo will have the same url. So email bebo with the image url (right click on the image, go down to properties and you will get the address there) but if they 'saved as' the photo and them uploaded it them selfs you are well fúcked!

DublinWriter

Thaedydal wrote:

You own the rights to your own image and you just get bebo to take it down.

Interesing case about Virgin Mobile using images taken from Flickr without permission in a recent ad campaign.

They are currently being taken to court in the States over it. It's not as legally black-and-white as you'd first think.

Twinkle-star15

I don't know how bad the photo is, but if it's only kind of embarrassing your best bet is to laugh along. I know it's really bad, but people will be fed up with it in a fortnight, tops. Do you know the other people who have it on their pages? If it's really really bad, and you want it down now, you should try talking to them in person about it. It's probably not as bad as you think it is, and I'm sure your friends don't realise how much they're embarrassing you.

Drift

Hey OP,

I know a guy who may be in your situation at the moment (it may even be you). His situation is that a lot of friends of his have a picture of him as their profile pic and the picture would be described as embarrasing. I don't know him well enough to know how he feels about it but it was funny at first and may have gone a bit far now.

I do know for a fact though that the only reason people have the picture of him up is because they count him as a good friend. In your case I would assume the same. These sort of things come and go fairly fast and most people get fed up of having a photo of someone else up as their bebo profile pic fairly fast so if I were you I'd laugh alongand wait for it to gradually die off in the next week or two. Then just be careful in future how you get photographed.

Just in case it is you I'm going to have a word with the one person I know well who has an embarrasing photograph of someone else up - see if I can do anything.

Toots

If you go onto ur friend's bebo page and click 'report abuse' you can have the bebo account closed down. You have to give a reason to the the bebo moderators as to why you think this person has been abusive, and if they think this is severe enough they will close the account down.

I know this sounds harsh, but if you asked your friend to take down the picture and he has repeatedly posted it again, I think this might be a good option. It'll cause him the hassle of having to start his bebo from scratch again and perhaps make him realise what an a$$hole he's being. If I was you, I wouldn't be too keen to continue contact with him after this!!!

fitz

Thaedydal wrote:

You own the rights to your own image and you just get bebo to take it down.

Not true.
You own the rights to pictures you take.
Pictures of you that someone else takes, you've no real rights for those at all.

Red Alert

I would just ignore it. They will find a new profile pic soon anyway.

davyjose

Thaedydal wrote:

You own the rights to your own image and you just get bebo to take it down.

Exactly. If you were sponsored by Coca-Cola and Pepsi put a photo of you up, you'd sue them. Let Bebo know that legal action will be your last resort, but it will be a resort.
The invasion of privacy that "social" networking can contribute to is IMO very scary indeed.

BaZmO*

Thaedydal wrote:

You own the rights to your own image and you just get bebo to take it down.

Tell that to Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, Abi Titmuss, etc.

Once a picture goes digital on goes on the web you're pretty much fecked.

You've 2 choices only.
1) Ask your friend to remove it, or
2) Ignore it.