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Shopping Blogs — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:29:57 +0000

With the wave of social media and social networking taking the World Wide Web by storm, privacy is something of the past. And not because of an identity thief or phishing scam – we are somewhat responsible for letting the entire world into our homes and every day lives.

We upload images of our selves in the cliche profile pose with a cell phone or web cam help about 45 degrees above our head as we cheek a grin at the lense. We upload images of our pets, coworkers, family, children, jobs, schools, vacations, houses, holidays and our community. And we do not stop there. By updating the universe on what we are doing, where we are going, who we love, who we hate, what we like to do, eat, watch on TV, who we vote for, who we protest, what we think and feel and every imaginable fact about ourselves, we are voluntarily giving up some of our own personal lives and opening them up to our own sort of reality show.

There is some debate over how much social networking is positively or adversely affecting our society, but no matter what end of the debate you are on, there are some universal guidelines about how to safely update your Twitter or what upload images are appropriate for sharing with your monumental friends list.

First of all, do not reveal too much about where you live or work. It may seem like an innocent statement – the name of your employer – but you cannot assume that every person on the internet has innocent and harmless intentions. By announcing to the world where you are every day from 9 to 5, you may be inviting trouble.

Unfortunately, many social network sites may encourage you to fill out your employer in order to join group or be linked to other employees who have filled out the same information. While this is an enticing way to connect with the cute new guy in the accounting office, sending him a private message online may be safer.

Filling out your employers name is not such an obvious mistake as publishing your street address and home information. You should never display anything more than your city or state on a social network profile, and even that information might be more than you are willing to share.

The next step you can take to enjoy the buzz on your favorite social network while protecting your identity is to create an ambiguous and non-identifying username. Think about what strangers will be drawn to befriend you if they do not know who you are.

Creating a username like lovekitten01 may draw the wrong crowd to your friend request inbox. But altering it a little into something like catlady57 is not likely to send unsolicited friend requests your way.

Beyond the username and data that appears on your profile, you should carefully consider what upload images you use on your profile page. You may be tempted to put on a skimpy shirt and hold the camera at a seductive angle, but beware that this photo is likely to be seen by anyone on the internet, even if you set your profile to private.

Electing to have a private profile, viewable only by your group of friends, may hide the information within your page. You may even be able to determine which upload images are viewable by what friends, however most social networks will still display an icon of your profile photo along with a message that you profile is only viewable by your friends.

Also, you are probably telling yourself that you are not going to collect friends that you do not really know that well. But when it comes down to it, the longer you are active on a social network, the more popular you become and you will lower your guard for accepting friend requests. Do you really want everyone you have ever met to see a suggestive photo of you or read about where you live and work? Probably not.

So, before you click that upload images button, ask yourself these questions. Would I be embarrassed if my boss saw this photo. Would I want my dad to see this picture. In five years, will I regret having upload images for the world to see and share?

These are just a few practical ways to protect your privacy because the truth is, there are a lot of benefits both socially and professionally to having a social network account or two.

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Upload Images Benefits

Shopping Blogs — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:40:21 +0000

It is amazing to me how much picture taking and sharing has changed in the short twenty-two years that I have been alive. When I was little, there were big fat cameras that took pretty poor quality pictures and today you can upload images onto the computer, view every picture you take before you decide whether you want to hold on to it, and modify any image to your liking.

Even though the fact that we can upload images today is a known technology, being able to upload images has really not been around for that long. It was not so many years ago that digital cameras did not even exist. I am pretty sure I got my first digital camera around the ninth grade and that was pretty quickly after they came out. The ability to upload images was a strange, exciting, and unusual technology.

Before the days when we could upload images, my friends and I had to take a risk every time we took a picture. Then, we would have to bring our roll of film in its little canister to the closest Walgreens and hope for the best. The excitement that came with bringing film to Walgreens and waiting impatiently to get pictures back, does not exist for me anymore. I am not going to lie, I do miss that moment when I would open the picture envelope to see how my photography skills had done for me. Sometimes it would be a huge disappointment because the lighting would be bad or the shot would not be centered, and more often times than not, someone would be blinking. So, even though the excitement is not the same, having advancements such as digital cameras and the ability to upload images definitely is more of a positive than a negative.

Now, when someone blinks you can look at the image immediately and retake the picture. You do not have to wait to get it developed to find out it was a bad shot after you already paid for it. My friends and I will retake a shot multiple times until all of us are content with it. After a picture is taken, everybody usually would gather around the camera and try to get a glimpse at the image. Now, it seems like second nature to be able to do this, but really we have only had the ability to do it for a couple of years.

After we have a bunch of images we like, we can upload images onto our computer. After we upload images, we have the ability to change and modify them however we would like. If the picture is dark we can brighten it, if someone had red eye we can take it away, if the photo is off center we can center it. There are so many different options and ways you can edit after you upload images.

I think the biggest reason people today like to upload images is because they can share them with their friends online whenever they would like. With networks like Facebook and MySpace, people upload images all the time because they want people to see them. One of the biggest things I like to do when I get on my Facebook account is go through pictures my friends have posted on their page. If you don’t like a picture of yourself you can untag it and if you really like a photo you can share it.

Even though I miss the excitement of waiting around for photos I have not seen, I think the ability to upload images makes the pictures we take today so much better because we can always sort through them and edit them before we make prints. The ability to upload images is a fairly new advancement, but with all the quick advancements in technology, who knows what is going to take over next.

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