Would it bother you if one of your Facebook 'friends' copied something with your name on it from your account, then posted that item on another public website?

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Yes, I'd mind. Not cool. Very bad form.

I signed up for FB (with the minimum info possible) so I could access other FB sites. Nothing personal, just businesses and local police to get info.

I'm sorta confused. Are we talking about Facebook or GW? I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly you mean. Without revealing identities, can you give us a more detailed example of what you mean?

Yes it would bother me. I am on facebook and my only "friends" are my siblings and my nieces and nephews. I never post a status, never repost anything.

If I had young kids I would very much mind if their names and photos were posted anywhere without my permission .

I could care less if anyone one looks me up on the computer. It's already been done to me on this site when I have disagreed politically. You have to expect it. Women by nature are curious and sometimes busybodies. My life isn't over eventful so any search of me is probably a boring letdown.

Saying that though I do keep my FB account locked and under a made up name. I prefer a small group of friends and family and have no interest in collecting just to appear popular.

Oh plenty of men as well lol.

Sorry about the confusion. Would it bother you if someone used your identifying information on any public website, without your permission--in these instances on GW.

It could be inadvertently copying and re-posting FB pics that had your real name displayed, and mentioning the location, or posting an obituary from a local newspaper, which identifies survivors and the location of the funeral home. In one case it was a proud grandma announcing her new grandson's full name and birth date.

Anyone on Facebook has already given up all hope of meaningful privacy. Here, I have been warned about a photo I posted that had potentially identifying info and I have also alerted others to the same. This is a very different place than Facebook----but there is not much privacy here, either.

Yes, anyone who isn't aware of it should realize that Houzz harvests just as much data about you as facebook does and sells it the same way.

I think most everyone who uses the Internet knows that any photo can be copied and shared. if you don't want it shared, don't post it.

a shared obit would not bother me at all, because that was probably obtained off a newspaper (public) website.

I agree maddielee, but don't most people who post on FB expect that their names and locations won't be shared along with the pics? I don't mind that pics of my decor and GW username have turned up on pinterest and in blogs without my knowledge (my sister-in-law recognized one of them), but I wouldn't want my real name, and the town where I live, to accompany the pictures.

(BTW, I posted a pic of your ROTS pantry on the kitchen forum yesterday, as a good example. :)

mama goose, thanks for helping me understand. :) I fully understand that anything posted on the internet is no longer private. Even private emails can go astray. Whatever I post I need to realize that potentially anyone can see it. There are some things I don't post on GW because a friend could Google something and find it and it might hurt their feelings. I should have picked another username than my own real name, but it's probably too late for that now.

If I found out that a friend, either real-life or internet (i.e., someone with whom I'm in relationship) had copied and pasted MY info for their own purposes, albeit a benign one, it would not be cool with me. I'd contact them personally and tell them to take it down and knock it off. I consider it a gross faux pas, if not outright betrayal of trust.

It bothers me is an understatement. I think there's a great lack of common sense and/or respect with the whole thing. I've ranted before on this. Fine if you want to post info about yourself, but you shouldn't be posting it about others and their children, etc. Unless, of course, they're ok with it. There just seems to be a blanket assumption that everyone is fine or I can do what I want. With fb, I've had to have chat with a friend more than once about not posting info. about me and my family on her loooong drawn out status updates! It is none of her 597 friends business!! Gah! Our family and friends have been told not to post info or photos of us on their accounts. Even though I got rid of mine years ago I still have eyes. If anyone ever gets ballsy enough to go there (and they're not like that thankfully) they'd be done getting photos from us and I'm not sure how much I'd really want bothered with them anymore. They don't have to like our request but they should respect it.

As I do not share my personal info here (not my name, anything), I wouldn't like it. I am friends with one other from her at GW on FB, and a very few know my real identity, email address, etc. I have an email address for "tina m." that I use on-line. I have a FB account, but I post very little info there.

I use a fake name and give no information like age, where you work, religion, nada. I even gave a fake birthday and I get cards every year on that date even though I've told my friends over and over it's not my birthday haha

Justerrilynn.......how do you know people have looked you up on the Internet? I wouldn't have a clue if someone googled me, etc.

I don't have a FB account, but I wouldn't be happy if someone posted my personal info or photos without my knowledge.

I use the internet all the time at work for looking up people's information. You need to read privacy statements on every single web page you use or else your info is out there.

In todays age, with every single person on the planet, it seems, having a cell phone-your right to privacy is pretty much gone. You can be photographed or video-taped in moments and be all over Reddit, Snap Chat, FB, Youtube, Twitter and any and every kind of social media format out there before you even know it. And then it's shared, made into a meme and has gone viral and there is very little you can do about it.

But in response to the OP's question-yes, I would be upset, but again, the person who posted it on FB in the first place made it public. I never put anything out on the internet that I wouldn't want the Times to publish on the front page.

There are several places you can register that will notify you when someone uses your name to search......linked in and naymz are two.

Thank you all for responding. The most recent post, which
initiated my question, was one which had pictures of a school event, and
pictures of the students (including a posed class photo), with the
location of the school mentioned in the post. The name of the FB member,
who had posted the pics on her page, was on the bottom of each picture.
Posting pics of other people's children on her FB page might not have
been advisable, but she probably didn't expect that info to be posted to
another public website. I'm assuming she didn't get permission from
each student or parent before posting the pics to her page (or the school's FB page, if that makes a difference), or
if it's even necessary to obtain permission, but I wouldn't want that
much info, with a pic of my child, posted to GW, or any other public
site. I know I'm behind the times, and we can't control much of the info that's posted to the internet--you should have heard my FIL's reaction the first time I showed him his farm on google maps!

Several friends post (and tag) old pics of us, and our
family, to my late husband's FB page, so I'm assuming that anyone on
the 'friends' list can see them, download and post them anywhere. (Not
that anyone would want to. Oh, those pics from the 70's.) :[

I
once messaged a GW member who posted a picture of the exterior of her
house, with a legible street sign in the pic. She had previously shared
the name of the city in which she lives, so anyone doing a search on her
username would have both items of info. She hadn't thought about
that aspect--IIRC she deleted the picture.

Forgive me for missing if this has already been mentioned, but did you contact the person & politely tell them you were not comfortable w/ their posting that info? I suspect that it may've been done out of ignorance, rather than deliberately. Many people have no idea about how to be discreet or considerate on the web & for many of us, mistakes are how we learn....

Kswl......I had no idea you could register and find out who's been googling you. I find THAT kind of creepy, unless you are truly being stalked and harassed. With the explosion of the Internet who hasn't searched on Facebook or googled old flames, friends, coworkers, etc. just for fun and to see how they are doing. So now you're telling me that John Smith can find out that Jane Doe has googled him three times? Where's Jane Doe's right to privacy to innocently search whomever, whatever without HER identity being revealed?

ETA....I thought Linkedin was just a site for professionals to post your resume and network with colleagues for job opportunities and the like.

I believe LinkedIn only tells you when someone looks at your profile there, not when anyone does a general google, elbeeca.

I wrote my masters thesis on using the Internet in education, and I've worked in PR for a number of years. If it is in print, it is no longer private, ever, anything. As for the Internet, NEVER post anything that you would not be comfortable showing to the whole world, even an e-mail, since someone could, in a moment of anger, cut and paste your text and publish it to the world. Some things are just not appropriate to put into visible text. Always ask people's permission before publishing their images. When it comes to photos, I don't have a problem sharing them on my own FB (like a photo of my family at a gathering, etc.) because I would show a printed photograph to anyone as well. We are not in the witness protection program. But then again, we are also mucho boring. No scantily clad photos (well there was one of my showing off my new bathing suit, but heck, I did wear it at the Jersey shore and that is pretty much showing it to the world!.)

carolb_w_fl, the information posted was not about me, and the thread with the school pictures disappeared shortly after I read it. I did consider messaging the GW member who posted, but I was uncomfortable doing so. I suppose the worst she could have done was tell me to MYOB. (Or tried to google me.) Evidently someone else contacted her, or she realized that she'd shared too much info.

I messaged the member who posted the street sign, because I'm aware that with google maps/street view, and other sites, someone could have quickly and easily found her house#, name and other information.

I still don't understand----- do LinkedIn and other sites just tell you that "someone" looked at your profile or do they tell you specifically "Brad Pitt" looked at your profile or googled you?

If anyone has a photo of me in a bikini at 18, please feel free to share it on any and all social media sites, lol.

Lol, cattyles, I was remembering the huge aviator glasses and bell bottoms with crazy embroidery.

Or the above with a bikini top! We were so cool......and skinny.

Elbeeca,

I don't have a LinkedIn Acct, but I think on a premium LinkedIn account, it tells you exactly who viewed your profile. In the regular accounts, it just indicates your profile has been viewed X number of times. Maybe someone with an Acct will confirm or straighten us both out about that.

Recently, I attended a talk by an Internet privacy expert. What he was able to find out about audience members was impressive - amounts they donated to charities, club & organization memberships, pictures of their family members, etc. We all know there is no privacy but seeing how easily everything was accessed was eye opening.

I read an on line article about a school teacher who was fired for twerking in a contest while on spring break. She allegedly stated she knew people were there with cell phone cameras but she didn't think her on-stage act would be put out on the internet. Really? She is 24 and didn't know videos went viral?

Hhireno, I've a LinkedIn account, and you are correct. And no, it can't tell you who has googled you - Google is a different service. Just how many times over a specific period of time that your profile on LinkedIn has been viewed. And if you bother to pay for premium (I don't) the names of those who have viewed it.

I wonder if there are also apps to block your name with LinkedIn, etc.....and then more apps to unblock your block.....where will it end? I think it's an invasion of privacy to post your name when you do a search on LinkedIn or anywhere, unless it is made clear in big bold print that if you continue with the search you will be indentified by name to the person you're searching.

There is a setting in Linked In that allows you to view others' profiles and job listings anonymously.. or to identify yourself generically. I don't believe this is a premium membership feature.