It’s frustrating. Perhaps I’ve just been lucky to share my life online for over eight years now without getting burned. Quite the opposite. This website has enabled me to meet wonderful people I never would have otherwise, to make serendipitous connections that would seem miraculous in the pre-internet world. And yet now having that boundary crossed… it really stings. My wife, who has a much more public-facing job than I do, was especially mortified. I’ve read a hundred times about the dangers of putting family information online, but I thought my site was too small or my intentions sincere or … I guess I just should have known better.
The upshot is Bin Gregory Productions will be less personal in the future. I’ve restricted most of my Flickr stream, I’ve started pulling out child names and such from my archives, and I’ll be much more careful and particular about family-related stories in the future. I can live with embarrassing myself, but embarrassing my family is a serious dereliction of duty.
Salaams, akh. Forgive me for a brief chuckle. At the same token, back when I was pursuing a career in photography, I had to sue more than one institution for their illigal use of my image.
Salams Marc, Yeah it is all a bit silly. But you know, if it had been one of my “serious” photos of Malaysia or plants or what have you, I wouldn’t have minded so much. I might even have been flattered. But a snapshot of my kids? That’s just low.
Act of charity????
Sounds more like ‘dishonest’ act to me!!
Why couldn’t they just ask!!!