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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 162063" data-attributes="member: 9521"><p>It seems like this topic crops up on a regular basis and the conclusion always seems to be the same - do not post if you're concerned about the misuse of your photos. I also have a FaceBook page where I post my images and many of them have been &quot;shared&quot; by newspapers and magazines, real estate agencies as well as private users. It's a real balance between the added exposure vs. that ill feeling of watching my images as they're spread all across the internet. What is more disconcerting is when you see the number of &quot;shares&quot; is X but you can only see Y of them because many of those sharing your images have their privacy levels set so that I, the owner of the image, cannot even see who they are let alone what they're doing with it. But the key really is - low resolution images and always have a watermark. On the positive side, it's provided me with interested buyers who otherwise would not have seen my images, so I think it's a trade off worth continuing....at least for now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 162063, member: 9521"] It seems like this topic crops up on a regular basis and the conclusion always seems to be the same - do not post if you're concerned about the misuse of your photos. I also have a FaceBook page where I post my images and many of them have been "shared" by newspapers and magazines, real estate agencies as well as private users. It's a real balance between the added exposure vs. that ill feeling of watching my images as they're spread all across the internet. What is more disconcerting is when you see the number of "shares" is X but you can only see Y of them because many of those sharing your images have their privacy levels set so that I, the owner of the image, cannot even see who they are let alone what they're doing with it. But the key really is - low resolution images and always have a watermark. On the positive side, it's provided me with interested buyers who otherwise would not have seen my images, so I think it's a trade off worth continuing....at least for now. [/QUOTE]

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