Somebody stole my photo off of facebook and has been using it to troll internet forums, how screwed am I? (high school, classroom)
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I guess some guy was real pissed at me or something. He stole my facebook photo and has been using it to troll internet forums. For a while I was unaware of this until some friend of mines in real life showed me something he read on an internet forum and asked if that was me.
This hit me like a ton of bricks.
How screwed is my future? I deleted my facebook recently.
Well nowadays, everyone is "googling" people to see what they posted on FB or other social media websites so it can affect her and this is not the first time I've heard this story. Maybe someone else can chime on what can be done, but it is wrong on so many levels.
Your picture alone is not the concern, its the using of the picture and name combined if they are doing that. Contact the places where they are using it and see if they can delete the accounts. At minimum they should be able to remove the picture of you that is being used as an avatar. Not all prospective employers look at those things.
Your picture alone is not the concern, its the using of the picture and name combined if they are doing that. Contact the places where they are using it and see if they can delete the accounts. At minimum they should be able to remove the picture of you that is being used as an avatar. Not all prospective employers look at those things.
if it is the picture alone and not the name, then what should be done?
if it is the picture alone and not the name, then what should be done?
I am no expert on this. You can still ask them to remove the picture but because it was on facebook I am not sure you can complain it violates your privacy. You might try to find a forum that is frequented by internet gurus or legal types who might actually know the answer to this question.
How bad of a picture is it? I assume you have now figured out that you should never put anything on the internet that you are not prepared for your mother or employer to see. Without your name attached it is unlikely that a future employer will find the picture. If you are thinking about teaching high school, is it bad enough that students will gleefully share it with each other?
Is the photo inappropriate, or is the issue the content that it's being fraudulently attached to?
The above poster is right...if it's not attached to your name, it's not going to come up if a prospective employer does a search for you. But it would be an issue if someone happened across it and recognized you, and wondered why "you" were posting the sorts of things that "you" are.
Basically, it's identity theft, though...someone is posing as you, misrepresenting themselves by photograph. It's no different than someone using your name or other identifying details...I'm not sure how you'd go about legally identifying that, though.
I had a social media profile long before I was in the classroom, and I have retained it, with pretty specific privacy settings. I also never, ever post anything under my own name that I would not be comfortable saying out loud within the earshot of my employer, nor do I post photos that I would not readily show my employer. But if somebody accessed even tame and totally neutral photos of me, stole them, and began posting lewd or offensive posts somewhere while posing "as" me via using my image, I'm not sure what my recourse would be. It's a pretty messed up individual who would do such a thing.
You're probably best off going to the forum itself where the fraud is being perpetrated, and see what they have to say, then go from there.
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