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i'd agree with that too, and add that second city / upright citizen's brigade-style programmes for aspiring comics are pretty much the same deal

Funerals are a waste of time and money.

damn, it's 'post things bg agrees with' day itt

Some cultures tend to agree.

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Parents should only be allowed to post one pic of their child online on social media a year up until the age of 6, after which the child must sign a release every year after.

Rogue One is even less entertaining than the prequels.

Not controversial.

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Parents should only not be allowed to post one any pic(s) of their child online on social media a year up until the age of 6,

Yeah^^^ basically. I tried to be a bit more fair though, nevermind that I always think of strangers jacking it to these pics of children online.

counterpoint: we've got a lot of extended family who love to see pictures of the kids and FB is a great way to do that, in fact it's one of the few things it's actually good for, also my kids are very cute

Make sure your account is locked down. Also, I just think it's bad that kids don't get a say in what is posted of them online. I got PISSED at my dad when I finally accepted his friend request on fb and saw a bunch of random pics of me in his profile that wasn't locked down.

hate to say it but your parents have an eternal, god-given right to distribute embarrassing photos of you and there's nothing you can do about it

yeah, but I have a right to privacy.

ok but lol at the idea that there are rando pedos trawling fb for banal photos of clothed children smiling in candid photos to jack it to; u realize these guys have a whole dark web full of actual child pornography?

It's hyperbole but I do get annoyed when I see friends posting playful pics of their children in the bath or playing topless in sprinklers. It's puritanical of course but dude, people are creeps.

Parents should only not be allowed to post one any pic(s) of their child online on social media a year up until the age of 6,

― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:57 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah^^^ basically. I tried to be a bit more fair though, nevermind that I always think of strangers jacking it to these pics of children online.

― Yerac, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:59 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark

agree 100% minus the strangers jacking it part -- my mind tries to protect me from shit like that by pretending it doesn't happen (even though surely somewhere it does)
i feel creeped out and even sad every time i know abundant information about someone's kid and i don't know the actual kid. i feel sorry for them (they may not hate it as much as i would have as a child but i hated having my photo shared as a child a LOT)

i would raise the age of 6 to the age of consent

The privacy angle, as in data privacy not like other humans seeing photos of you, is definitely more worrying.

My sister uses a private flickr account to share photos of her kids, and while I'm glad FB isn't building user profiles of her children before they're in kindergarten, I do worry that flickr, like friendster, will get sold to some random data miner when their new owners realize there's no money in it.

hate to say it but your parents have an eternal, god-given right to distribute embarrassing photos of you
this is not true. parents do not have a right to exploit their child's image.

Yeah, I haven't met some of my friends's kids who live far away but I see so many pics of them online that I feel like I know them. And they have absolutely no say in how their images get distributed online, forever saved.

ilx conversations about rights and morality are some of the least enlightening conversations on the site we're much better when we stick to whatever pop album cosmo loves this month

For me I don't care about my own childhood images because I don't think I am so indentifiable in them but more recent pics that I sent to my parents that went straight online. Like, NO. I don't even put them online.

I got PISSED at my dad when I finally accepted his friend request on fb and saw a bunch of random pics of me in his profile that wasn't locked down.

Yeah, this really bugs me too, how Facebook and Instagram give people a license to post photos of other people without their permission.

my god folks

my god

worse ye get

my mom sometimes posts pictures of me that i don't like because it's a bad angle or something, but i think that's just because i am extremely vain

i'd never get mad at her for it. that seems crazy

you should never post a picture of someone publicly without asking for their consent
that is basic

if the person says no, do not post the picture
if they say yes, it is ok

Everyone has a different expectation of privacy and control of the information out on the internet.

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now you that you are a confirmed sex symbol you've got to protect that brand treesh!

caveat: if the person is performing/on a stage, you can presume they are consenting to being photographed unless they state otherwise

what are you talking about? xp

i am good with the new social norm of not posting pics of people without their consent. i would always ask people, but i didn't know it was a thing before. if someone posted an obviously embarrassing photo, of course i would always think that was out of line/mean

but just like group photos and photos from events--i just untag myself if i don't like the photo

there are almost no pictures of me online, and none w/ my full name attached, it's good

This is not really related but kind of. My friend has recently acquired an online stalker of someone he has never met before. She found out his phone number and calls him repeatedly and is trying to "save" him. In the last month though, he's had fake profiles that has a pic of him as the profile pic requesting to be his friend.

Is she a born again christian type?

did it start with her finding his baby pics

I don't know. He used to publicly post a lot of philosophical rants and post on public news stories. He totally stopped doing that.

That sucks. People shouldn’t be driven into hiding online because of someone else’s shitty behavior but I’m sure it happens all the time.

wait your friend is being stalked by a stranger and is trying to save her own stalker?

well thats at least a positive outcome hey xxp

Baby pics are fine. All babies pretty much look the same anyway and everyone is usually good with the etiquette of pretending they care about the 100th pic.

Oh i didn’t read it that way. I thought the stalker was a woman trying to save a man.

NO he is being stalked by a woman he has never met who calls him a lot to save him. And then recently after he was being stalked he had fake profiles that has him as the profile pic, requesting to be his friend.

oh not that cant be right can u check agai

That sounds like a nightmare. There is a kind of haunted house quality to the internet—all these spectral messages and accounts.

fake plastic treeship

Ha, does anyone remember that tuomos used to post lots and lots of pics here and then rjg and someone else went to denmark? and totally saw him and was like "are you tuomos?"

Fine here's my controversial opinion:

Method acting classes are actually just a format for emotionally abusing aspirant actors into creepy pyramid schemes

― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:47 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd agree with that too, and add that second city / upright citizen's brigade-style programmes for aspiring comics are pretty much the same deal

― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:53 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, excuse me, but speaking as a graduate of one of these programs, I just have to point out that the participants generally come saddled with ample preexisting emotional damage, thankuverymuch.