LorelaiS:
My best friend has terrible photo etiquette. She only uploads photographs of herself in which she thinks she looks her absolute best, and in which she is not being upstaged by anybody else. If there is an opportunity to upload a photograph of someone looking less than their best next to her looking good then she jumps at it. I know she does this though because of her own insecurities about her appearance. And honestly, I feel sorry for her. If she feels the necessity to create a false reality on Facebook, of her aesthetic and life, that says more about her, than say a bad picture says about me. She and I have had this issue several times in the past. Mainly because I know she feels competitive with me and so purposefully takes pictures that emphasise the parts of me I dislike. (Rule number 1 - never expose your weaknesses so they can’t be exploited!! :P) I have removed pictures of her in the past, but there are a few she has refused to remove of me. I’ll admit that I was pissed enough on principle to delete the photo myself when she’d left her Facebook account open on her computer.
My main gripe with photos on Facebook is that, just because you agree to be IN a picture, that does not mean you give your consent for that picture to be accessible by X amount of potential strangers. By uploading a photo of somebody on a website, without their consent, you are essentially breaching their right to privacy. I’d report it as abusive, say it’s harrassment, and it should get taken down. And maybe explain in detail to your friend why this has upset you.
I’m sure you’re beautiful, and we all take bad pictures. Just look at Cameron Diaz’s back catalogue for proof…
Welcome LorelaiS and Tanaqui
As already pointed out this is an old thread and the OP has no doubt resolved whatever the issue was by now. As evidenced by the fact s/he last posted in March 2011.