Being photographed

**wildrover** · 9th December 10, 11:16 AM

Keep in mind that the internet is a big place, but teh internets are forever. If you're caught screwing up online, you'll never live it down...particularly if it's funny somehow. In other words, when you stand out, do it well.

Also bear in mind that if there is no association with a photo, it cannot be used to identify you except by people who you presumably already know. In other words, if some random tourist (or a kid in WalMart) takes a "crazy guy in a kilt" photo, it is highly unlikely that you will be correctly identified as Joseph Q. McFramenkrantz in somebody's Facebook album.

Keep an eye out for unintentional links, or multi-step links, to information you'd prefer be kept private. Photos of you in others' posts, identified by your username or first name, while your real name sits in your signature line. Some people are comfortable with this...some of us keep the mindset that keeping things a bit hidden is simply good practice, whether we're hiding anything or not. Social media sites are the greatest risk, but can be mitigated. My kilted rear is all over Facebook, but there's no name to match

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Understand and minimize the risks, and go enjoy being the center of attention. There's no reason to live like a paranoiac

...particularly when the vast majority of people you meet are going to appreciate your kilt!

**artificer** · 9th December 10, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by wildrover

Also bear in mind that if there is no association with a photo, it cannot be used to identify you except by people who you presumably already know. In other words, if some random tourist (or a kid in WalMart) takes a "crazy guy in a kilt" photo, it is highly unlikely that you will be correctly identified as Joseph Q. McFramenkrantz in somebody's Facebook album.

Have you read about the 'face matching' software google is developing? Where, if you have one image of a face you can actually search the web for the same face...

THAT gets freaky in a hurry.

**brower247** · 9th December 10, 01:18 PM

I only have one firm and steadfast rule on photo requests,... NO Up-Kilt photos please

**Bugbear** · 9th December 10, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by artificer

Have you read about the 'face matching' software google is developing? Where, if you have one image of a face you can actually search the web for the same face...

THAT gets freaky in a hurry.

Ya, that's a bit creepy.

**Teufel Hunden** · 9th December 10, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by brower247

I only have one firm and steadfast rule on photo requests,... NO Up-Kilt photos please

Really? Those are the ones I never decline.

**wildrover** · 9th December 10, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by Teufel Hunden

Really? Those are the ones I never decline.

Just hope nobody runs the image convolution software on those pictures, right?

**Frank McGrath** · 9th December 10, 02:09 PM

I was at the Baltimore Science Museum with my son and his kids, when I happened to look over and see a man pointing a camera at me. When I looked his way, he pulled back as if he wasn't there. When I turned back around to the kids, I saw a flash reflect against the wall behind me. I went to the man and politely asked him next time to ask permission. He said thanks. As I turned to walk back to the kids, he took another. I Turned around and called him a nasty name. He did apologise and the security guard came over and grabbed his camera. The guard erased the last several pictures, because photography was evidently not allowed in that area. The guard then scolded the man for not reading the signs.

Otherwise, I just don't care.

**Darkislander** · 9th December 10, 03:03 PM

Oh yeah - I'm all for it. It's the people who want to grab at your kilt for a look that. hack me off

**BoldHighlander** · 9th December 10, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by Darkislander

It's the people who want to grab at your kilt for a look that. hack me off

I thought that only happened on this side of the pond!

**tripleblessed** · 9th December 10, 08:04 PM

Have resisted posting on this, as I appear odd enough from other threads, BUT.... As many know, some cultures resisted photographs as a stealing of
one's soul, and were laughed at by condescending more scientifically aware peoples. It turns out that they were the more accurate than known at the time. As with the ancient Greeks and even more ancient Hindus who described the interior of the atom 3500 years ago, the tribes had an awareness of subtle energies unmatched by instrumentation until recently. Although small, there is a measurable amount of your energy captured in the process, and through resonance, it can exert some influence, although most would have no idea of the techniques which allow that. Actually, no photo is necessary, but makes the process easier. So, what someone does with a picture of you CAN have negative implications. The upside is that if you have a favorite spot, or one that feels healing to you, it is possible to print a pattern on paper that will transfer energy from a photo of that spot, placed correctly on the paper, to a photo of you placed correctly on the paper. The photo of you then transfers that energy to you through resonance.
This is one of the areas of quantum and relativity theories that Einstein
said made him exceedingly uncomfortable, and he wasn't sure he wanted to
prove, though he was sure it is so. When proved, he just smiled that amazing
smile. And yes, it can be measured, and yes, it is replicable, and no, I don't have that degree, and no, I'm not posting the particulars. Some of it is copyrighted info I don't have permission to share.

Let the laughter commence.