Photo Sharing--not for the timid.
For this week's assignments I opted for a combination of A and B. I have had a FlickR account for several years, not to download pictures (*true confessions*---I only went digital in the last year--), but to keep up with the photostream showing my beautiful granddaughter! So I started out intending to download some pictures of me. That didn't go as quickly as I had hoped, but I made 5 photos available, tagged one 23 Things Kansas, and put different privacy levels on all of them. I had hoped to then easily blog the image, but FlickR does not yet link to Posterous, so I am trying the work around. Funny, I can make it work from Posterous to FlickR! If you end up seeing an image--I was successful. If not, I'm still working on it.
I have some issues with photo privacy. I don't like to share photos of friends and family without their express permission and I don't like making photos of me public. I'm sure it's my age--believe me no naked photos exist! But I don't like the idea of people I don't know accessing and possibly reusing my photographs. So I only marked two photos public and I hope I wasn't so restrictive with the rest of the settings that I prevented them being viewed.
I have shared vacation photos on Facebook. Our women's group at church regularly shares event photos there too. This summer I ran into the situation where I loved a photo--but daughter #1 didn't think it was flattering and wanted it removed from public view. I think we have to take that into account. I also wonder about libraries sharing photos of children. I remember that years ago, when I was a girl scout leader, the organization frowned on using photos of the girls without signatures of the appropriate parents. Do we need to be thinking that way in order to protect the privacy of families?
Anyhow, try viewing the photo at this link:
Jan