Digital Etiquette

Share a time when you or someone you know was the recipient of an inappropriate use of digital media or when you might have used digital media in an inappropriate manner.

I have a friend on social media that enjoys taking photographs. She will randomly take many pictures at social gatherings without asking permission and then post them, again without asking permission. Although the photographs in and of themselves are appropriate and well done, I don't necessarily want my face posted where everyone can see where I am and what I'm doing. She never saw the harm in it until confronted...This is a total privacy and lack of consent issue.

How did this make you or others feel?  It made people angry and uncomfortable, myself included.

What might have been done differently? Always ask permission any possible recipient of a posting, whether it is a picture or information.

 

I, too, have felt an invasion of privacy when someone wants to take my picture without my permission.  The way that I tried to remedy this situation is to teach a mini-lesson in my middle school classes about everyone's right to digital privacy.  I had the students discuss how to ask permission when they want to take a picture and how to politely respond to someone who declines to be photographed. To some, it had never occurred to them that they were invading others' privacy by taking pictures without permission.