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Ask permission before posting to Social Media?

  • 29-08-2013 05:49PM
    #1
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭


    Is this too much to ask? Without dwelling on any particular recent incidents and mindful of EP this weekend; why is it that people think they can post pictures of you to social media without your permission?

    Could I make a plea that if your are at a party, gig, event, rave or festival and you see someone in an awesome outfit, or getting into a 'scrape', PLEASE ask their permission before posting to social media. Some people have professional lives outside of partying, and you may cause them great difficulty by posting without permission.

    I remember a time when you used to ask people before taking a photo, now it seems that anyone is fair game if out in public.

    Is it too much to ask to be thoughtful and just ASK?


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  • #2
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Unfortunately some people seem to think that because they document every second of their life, everyone else on the planet does the same thing too.


  • #3
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    HA


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    God bless you and good luck with your cause.


  • #5
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    or getting into a 'scrape', PLEASE ask their permission before posting to social media

    Yeah, good luck with that!


  • #6
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    People will get out their cameras and film people's last breaths after horrible accidents and plaster it all over the web - your request for privacy, although legitimate, expects too much from the average twat-with-a-camera.

    Privacy in public is dead.


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  • #7
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    If you have a problem just untag yourself or don't consciously partake in photos, or don't do silly things where there are cameras snapping.

    It has always been the case that people inadvertently entered pictures in public places. If you follow the above guidelines, nothing will change and your reputation will survive.


  • #8
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    MadsL wrote: »
    Is this too much to ask? Without dwelling on any particular recent incidents and mindful of EP this weekend; why is it that people think they can post pictures of you to social media without your permission?

    Could I make a plea that if your are at a party, gig, event, rave or festival and you see someone in an awesome outfit, or getting into a 'scrape', PLEASE ask their permission before posting to social media. Some people have professional lives outside of partying, and you may cause them great difficulty by posting without permission.

    I remember a time when you used to ask people before taking a photo, now it seems that anyone is fair game if out in public.

    Is it too much to ask to be thoughtful and just ASK?

    this will only get worse..... its unstoppable at this point. Just dont do anything you're not supposed to be doing and you'll be fine. That slane girl found out the hard way.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The paparazzi will have you killed under a bridge for trying to instil that idea on people


  • #10
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    kneemos wrote: »
    God bless you and good luck with your cause.

    There are some places that have sucessful managed to revolt against this trend. Native American pueblos/reservations (very frowned upon to photograph without permission) and Burning Man; again bad form not to ask permission before taking a pic.


  • #11
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Hate that.:(
    Out of curiosity, how embarrassing was it? On a scale of one to jail?;)

    Or have you not done it yet?:D


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  • #12
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    Just dont do anything you're not supposed to be doing and you'll be fine.

    There will be plenty of teachers at the Electric Picnic raving their little socks off in their finest Sparklepony neon.

    That doesn't mean pics of them should be appearing without their permission on FB or elsewhere.

    Nothing illegal or immoral in what they are doing.


  • #13
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    MadsL wrote: »
    Native American pueblos/reservations (very frowned upon to photograph without permission) .

    They think taking a photo steals your soul


  • #14
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Gotta love these hippie wannabe photographers


  • #15
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    If you have a problem just untag yourself or don't consciously partake in photos, or don't do silly things where there are cameras snapping.

    It has always been the case that people inadvertently entered pictures in public places. If you follow the above guidelines, nothing will change and your reputation will survive.


    Yeah, doesn't always work like that. I had a pic that was taken at a festival last year tagged on facebook, nothing scandalous; except by the time I untagged it my sister-in-law had her nose in it. I don't really want her in my business nor to I want to explain why I have unfriended her.

    Time to leave FB perhaps?

    Maybe the age of common courtesy is over?


  • #16
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    MadsL wrote: »
    There will be plenty of teachers at the Electric Picnic raving their little socks off in their finest Sparklepony neon.

    That doesn't mean pics of them should be appearing without their permission on FB or elsewhere.

    Nothing illegal or immoral in what they are doing.

    The pics may or may not surface and if they do, it shouldnt be a big deal IMO.


  • #17
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,541 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    MadsL wrote: »
    now it seems that anyone is fair game if out in public.

    Thats because they are.
    MadsL wrote: »
    Time to leave FB perhaps?
    Yes :)


  • #18
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    They think taking a photo steals your soul
    No, they usually charge, it's lost income.


  • #19
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    MadsL wrote: »
    Yeah, doesn't always work like that. I had a pic that was taken at a festival last year tagged on facebook, nothing scandalous; except by the time I untagged it my sister-in-law had her nose in it. I don't really want her in my business nor to I want to explain why I have unfriended her.

    Time to leave FB perhaps?

    Maybe the age of common courtesy is over?

    If your not happy, just leave facebook and social media and refrain from doing illegal things and you'll be fine.

    I personally think its a non issue if a pic goes up of me on FB with out my permission.

    Unless it makes me look fat that is, then ill cry myself to sleep :P


  • #20
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    They think taking a photo steals your soul

    Nonsense. Native Americans get their photos taken with their permission all the time. The reason for the photo ban is capturing ceremonies or dances which are sacred.

    You wouldn't pop into the local church and photograph the priest consecrating mass without permission. Same thing.


  • #21
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    It's a world where the paparazzi are lying on the pavement to take pictures of female celebrities getting out of cars so I think we can say common deceny is too long dead to be revived.


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  • #22
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    MadsL wrote: »
    Nonsense. Native Americans get their photos taken with their permission all the time. The reason for the photo ban is capturing ceremonies or dances which are sacred.

    You wouldn't pop into the local church and photograph the priest consecrating mass without permission. Same thing.

    yes, ive done it at weddings and christenings and the odd alter boy ceremony looking to catch the priest with his pants down.


  • #23
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    lahalane wrote: »
    It's a world where the paparazzi are lying on the pavement to take pictures of female celebrities getting out of cars so I think we can say common deceny is too long dead to be revived.

    How did we get here so fast?


  • #24
    Shout Dust
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Shout Dust


    You can change a setting on facebook, where you have to authorise each tag anytime someone tags you. Won't stop the picture going up but will stop it appearing on your page without you allowing it first


  • #25
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    As this thread shows, a man list his embassy job over a youtube video

    Granted, he's an ass but he had no idea he was secretly filmed

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057027299


  • #26
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    MadsL wrote: »
    How did we get here so fast?

    Well we were never a really decent species at any point in history really were we? I admit it looked like we were heading in the right direction at one stage but I'm not so sure anymore.


  • #27
    Rascasse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭Rascasse


    MadsL wrote: »
    There will be plenty of teachers at the Electric Picnic raving their little socks off in their finest Sparklepony neon.

    That doesn't mean pics of them should be appearing without their permission on FB or elsewhere.

    Nothing illegal or immoral in what they are doing.

    No one can be under any illusion, by attending EP there is a very good chance of being photographed or filmed by someone. Don't like it? Don't go.

    It's also worth remembering that video or photos of the teachers raving in their sparklepony neon (whatever that is) could end up in next years advertising campaign.
    You give Your express consent to Your actual or simulated likeness to be included for no fee within any film, photograph, audio and/or audiovisual recording to be exploited in any and all media for any purpose at any time throughout the world. This includes filming by the police or security staff which may be carried out for the security of customers or the prevention of crime.


  • #28
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Shout Dust wrote: »
    You can change a setting on facebook, where you have to authorise each tag anytime someone tags you. Won't stop the picture going up but will stop it appearing on your page without you allowing it first

    Yeah I have done that. I'm just trying to get some kind of lightbulb to go on it people's heads before they upload to the web or even take the photo in the first place.

    We have more or less got the message out that texting/talking in the cinema is rude and inconsiderate, maybe we could get the message out that taking a photograph without consent is also rude and inconsiderate.


  • #29
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Rascasse wrote: »
    No one can be under any illusion, by attending EP there is a very good chance of being photographed or filmed by someone. Don't like it? Don't go.

    It's also worth remembering that video or photos of the teachers raving in their sparklepony neon (whatever that is) could end up in next years advertising campaign.


    I couldn't say it better.


  • #30
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Rascasse wrote: »
    No one can be under any illusion, by attending EP there is a very good chance of being photographed or filmed by someone. Don't like it? Don't go.

    It's also worth remembering that video or photos of the teachers raving in their sparklepony neon (whatever that is) could end up in next years advertising campaign.

    Yeah, fair point. I hate those blanket "we can do anything we like with your image" T&Cs.

    I think the organisers probably however have more judgement than most cameraphone snappers as to what is appropriate.


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  • #31
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    MadsL wrote: »
    Is this too much to ask? Without dwelling on any particular recent incidents and mindful of EP this weekend; why is it that people think they can post pictures of you to social media without your permission?

    Could I make a plea that if your are at a party, gig, event, rave or festival and you see someone in an awesome outfit, or getting into a 'scrape', PLEASE ask their permission before posting to social media. Some people have professional lives outside of partying, and you may cause them great difficulty by posting without permission.

    I remember a time when you used to ask people before taking a photo, now it seems that anyone is fair game if out in public.

    Is it too much to ask to be thoughtful and just ASK?

    try not doing something so wrong it can get you in trouble with your job?


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