Taking photos of people in public??

happyviolet

Thanks to the likes of SnapChat and Facebook pages called "Spotted at:....." it is now becoming "normal" for people to take photos of anyone in public they find to be interesting for whatever reason and put it up online.
So has anyone here ever seen a person take a photo of you in public, like you managed to catch them openly point the camera phone in your direction, and if so did you do anything about it?

Bonus Q: Has there ever been a photo you have seen on the "Spotted at:.." pages or Snapchat where you thought was a bit lousy? One I saw on my college's Spotted page was of one of the cleaners trying to sweep up the yards with the caption: "You should have listened to your teachers at school."

College snobbery at it's finest. :mad: And this is at one of the lowest ranking colleges in the country, I dread to think what the highest ranking would be like in terms of snobbery.

Sky King

happyviolet wrote: »

, like you managed to catch them openly point the camera phone in your direction, and if so did you do anything about it?

Is there anything you can do? It's not illegal to take a pic of someone in public is it?

happyviolet

Sky King wrote: »

Is there anything you can do? It's not illegal to take a pic of someone in public is it?

Well I'd imagine you should be entitled to do something, like going up to them and asking what the hell are they doing, since it is just downright creepy, weird and stalkerish if someone went out of their way to take a photo of a complete stranger for whatever reasons.

FizzleSticks

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Dman001

I've said it before, that people go way overboard with taking photos and putting them up on FB Groups and sharing them through SnapChat. Complete evasion of people's privacy, where people use these Social Media tools to humiliate people. Should be (or maybe is?) deemed as bullying, and should be cracked down on.

Tasden

I just hate when people take photos or videos of groups of children (like the school play or at a kids play group or whatever) and put them up on Facebook for everyone to see, you might be OK with sharing your child's every moment to get a few likes but don't include my child, if I wanted her photo/video online I'd put it up myself, if you can't take another innocent child's face out of it then don't put it up. Its for this very reason (among others) that videoing and photography is no longer allowed around kids nowadays which ruins it for people who just want to capture the moment so they can look back on it or show to family, not broadcast it to 967 "friends".

happyviolet

FizzleSticks wrote: »

Oh I thought you meant in the form of artistic street photography.

I can't stand those kind of identifiable joke photos, I "liked" embarrassing night club photos at first it was look how silly night club culture is and then it became oh look an ugly person. Pathetic.

Oh no, professional artistic street photography is fine, even if it is put up online on their websites, because at least the photographer has respect for whatever subject is in his/her work.

This trend on the other hand though..absolutely pathetic is right. You cannot even step out in public without someone whipping out their camera. I have seen it loads of times on facebook, idiots have pictures from Snapchat of elderly people, drunk people or someone who might look eccentric online and making fun of them. Swear to god, I actually feel nervous and annoyed when I am on public transport and I catch someone from the corner of my eye raising their smartphone upwards a bit as if they were about to take a photo of something. No one should have to live with this new type of paranoia.