Backlash against Flickr and Orkut
If you’ve been cruising around the mommy blog community this week, chances are you’ve heard about this. Apparently, there are people who have been going onto flickr and taking pictures belonging to other people of their children and using them in profiles on Orkut. And that’s not all, as people’s photos of their children have been popping up in marketing, on websites, etc. All without permission, of course.
This is a huge deal to the parenting blog community. We talk about our children nearly daily and we like to share the pictures we take of our children. Unfortunately, the general public obviously cannot be trusted with this level of sharing. So all across flickr there are mothers privatizing the pictures of their children. It involves setting the permissions of all of the pictures of your children to be viewable by those you have marked as “Friends” or “Family” on your contact list. I’m one of the many who have joined this crusade. It’s a shame to have to “lock down” these adorable photos I’ve taken and enjoyed sharing with my readers, but I need to make sure my children’s likenesses are safe from the outside world. Short of taking down the pictures altogether, this is the best solution I can think of.
If you’d like to read more about this particular issue, check out the blog sites below (mine is included):
If you’d like to privatize the photos of your children but are unsure how, check out these blogs or leave me a comment here and we’ll get you all set up. As parents, this is the LAST thing we need to worry about, don’t you agree?
September 27th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
This drives me crazy. I hate that a group of people have caused me to hide all my kids photos from people who might enjoy them.