Business or Personal? Facebook is making people think thrice about how much to share (PART 2)
Posted on | October 29, 2008 |
Time for another round of insights, since it’s been a while since I’ve weighed in on this and lots has happened since.
Let’s talk about photographs. One of my passions! Love shooting them, love sharing them. I could easily be a professional, but instead I choose to work inside the industry and enjoy my photography as a fun, yet serious passion (I have been shooting for 15 years now). The social photographs are very tempting to upload and share on Facebook, but not everyone holds my beliefs (grin). Point being that some people still desire to have a separate private and business life and some things cross the line. Definitely fair, and I respect that.
Note: On the heels of a burlesque post, you may be tempted to think this has something to do with that… you would be wrong!
In fact, some have gone so far as to de-tag themselves from photos I posted! Whoops! So, I simply adjusted my process. I’ll post photos now, but not tag people in them. If my friends wish to identify themselves by tagging, let them do so. In fact, an old memory popped into my head of when there was a photo of me of when I was, ahem, a bit more robust than I am now. I de-tagged that one only five months ago. So, not only do I respect that point of view, but at one point I completely empathized.
I did discover that AFTER you upload a photo, you can set privacy options. Nice touch, but it should be DURING upload that you can set this (think: flickr).
Here is how to do it. In your profile, click on the edit button next to the photo:
Click on edit privacy and you will see this:
You can also customize the privacy to tailor who can and cannot see the photos:
As you can see, you can be considerate of other people’s wishes for privacy after posting a photo. :) And, you can post a picture just for someone else! Awwww, how romantic.
Originally, I had set this to “friends of friends” in the situation I describe above. Clearly not a good choice!
Another option is to always just send the photos to your friends via email (LOL). But how would I have learned this wonderful lesson if I had not?
The part I need to test out is if you choose to allow a photo to only be visible to one of more specific friends, does it indicate to them? Must test! To the Batmobile!
After editing, I went out to the “Home” page and the test image I allowed only three friends to see is not in my list of updates. Interesting. Since it’s late and I spent about 2 1/2 hours on the phone with various tech supports trying to get a domain and eCommerce site up tonight, I am not going to go ask my friends what they see. But, I will soon and post an update with screenshots of what they see.
I seem to remember an article where they spoke about college coaches going on FB and seeing what players broke the drinking code via photos posted by friends from the previous night’s shenanigans. Hilarious.
To reiterate, on Facebook be yourself, post photos, have fun. But if someone else wants a little privacy, you may want to consider it (right after) uploading.
Tags: custom settings in facebook > photographs on facebook > privacy
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