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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Picture Tagging Etiquette

Dear Cybersorter
I went on holiday with the girls and took lots of photos. I stuck them up on Facebook, and one of the girls lost it because she’s in a bikini. But she posed for me, and my FB settings are friends-only, so what’s her problem? These photos include several of us, and I don’t want to take them down just because this one girl has got into a strop. What do you think?
SN

Dear SN
You didn’t sneak a zoom lens into your suitcase and stealthily take shots of your friend from behind a cactus. The pictures do not incriminate her, except possibly with the beach fashion police (and they are so 2006). You own these pictures of your holiday, which you had permission to take. If her vanity is crushed because she wasn’t in front of a skinny mirror, it’s not your fault. It is reasonable to de-tag her from the picture, although she can do that herself, but unreasonable for her to demand you take them off the site.
Of course, she may never talk to you again, but would that be such a terrible loss?

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