Hayfield's Dahlen takes 19th at state girls golf meet

domini wrote:

Yes, you should ask permission. It's a courtesy, just like not using something that belongs to someone else.
Respecting others is something that people forget. For me, little courtesies are a marker of respect. The people I am around also feel that way. We respect each other, and that helps us get a lot done. Life is too short to deal with people who can't do you the simple courtesy of asking permission for something.
I lock down flickr and send urls to a few relatives. I don't post pictures of other kids without permission on my facebook page. It's not my place, it's disrespectful.
You don't know which friend of a friend is the one that creates issues or problems on facebook. Facebook is just a ragged pain. I think it was better before people decided to not just hang themselves out there but everyone else as well. We need to respect other people's perogatives and rights. I don't tell other people how to raise their kids, and I don't make decisions for them. I ask for the same courtesy.

I think in more sinister terms, like someone who is in hiding from an abusive/stalker ex. I just think they're entitled to their privacy without having to go to *ridiculous* measures to maintain that privacy (like worry about someone putting a picture of their child on the 'net, in a way that really could identify a location (even if it's just a town) in some way.

I don't know why I think that, because I've never experienced anything like that myself.

I understand the respect thing. I truly do. I wouldn't want people posting pictures of me all willy-nilly all over the internet. I think a line should be drawn, sure. But what you're making it sound like is everytime I take photo's of someone or a group of people at a party, I have to go and have them sign a release just so I can share it. That just sounds a bit absurd. Personally, I think people who make such an issue out of that have a stick up their @zz. Relax. It's a world of internet and social networking sites now.

I would see no difference in saying, you take a regular picture photograph of someone, then said person wants to know what you'll be doing with the picture and/or who all is gonna see it. It just sounds like border-line paranoia. It's not an issue to get worked up over. All this LW is going to succeed in doing is alienating herself and her son from any kind of activities. No one is gonna want to invite little Johnny and his crazy paranoid mother to anymore parties if this is how she's gonna act when someone snaps his picture.

I think it's a matter of respect, AND I think it's a lost cause, so it doesn't seem like a battle worth fighting.

Exactly. Hence my "forget about it" attitude. I don't know about others, but I've got more important things in life to worry about than who's posting my picture where. I don't have kids but I'd likely have the same attitude as far as they're concerned. So what if Kelly down the street put edog Jr. on her facebook or even Youtube? As long as she wasn't sending it to NAMBLA I could care less. If she was, that's another issue altogether.

Interesting!

1: Yeah not much you can do in the global video world we live in today. Nothing like privacy. As a parent I think I would be a little upset if someone posted videos or pictures of my kid without my permission though.

I made a point of never posting or sending pictures of him while he was a kid and I would be a little pissed if someone else did, just because it's not their kid or their right to go posting his image for the world to see without asking my permission.

2: Freaking TELL HIM to KNOCK IT OFF! It is demeaning, though I doubt he sees it that way. Just yet another guy acting in a paternalistic manner towards another adult who happens to be female. What else is new?

Ok, nobody yell at me, because I probably won't be reading any more tonight 'cause I got stuffs to do, and because I know not ALL men are that way, and because it's just the mood I'm in today so just...let it go.

Mimi
~irritatedly~