I recently decided to boycott pictures in my Facebook news feed because I don’t want to see my favorite photos on the wall when the camera is on the ceiling. I don’t think this is a good idea, but I’m not sure what else to do.
Facebook has been having a problem with this recently. Some people have decided that they want to see their photos, even though it’s just a bunch of static images. This has lead to an increase in the amount of people trying to down play the photos on their public profiles. I think this is a good thing because it’s not just annoying to others, but it can even be dangerous too. You might get in trouble for making a picture private.
You can of course just have your picture posted for all to see, but that’s not a good idea – and its not good for your profile either. We would all like to have our profile pictures on the internet, but sometimes its just too hard to have a photo for every single website you use, especially with images that are in high res, so it’s best to limit it to just a few sites.
This is another area where we are getting a lot of questions, and we have no intention of getting into the nitty-gritty of how to go about doing this. We do know that it is against the rules and can get you into a lot of trouble, so we would suggest you first opt out if you can.
While some may call this banning, we do not do so, but we do try to get people to be a little more mindful with their online activity. A common misperception is that we are a website that constantly harps on about what we think are “bad” pictures. Of course, we know this is not true. We have a lot of great pictures, but only a few that have been posted on our site in the last few months.
We have always gotten calls from people who have complained that some of their pictures have been posted on our site. While some of these complaints are valid, we are not responsible to police the content of any images posted on our site. We are not a website that deals in copyright infringement or the theft of any other individual’s picture.
In the middle of a video of the latest “new” game for Nintendo, a group of people asked us if we would be so good at keeping a secret from a particular website. We replied that we would, as the title suggests, be in the movie. When we asked to be interviewed by a representative of Nintendo, this was the first time we heard about a “new” game for Nintendo.
In any business, it’s not a good idea to be in direct competition with a customer. If you are a website that deals in the sale of copyright protected content, you are the enemy of your customer. So what we did was we asked Nintendo to kindly stop sending us any pictures of new games. Then we posted this on our page, and Nintendo responded by sending us a cease and desist letter. You can probably guess the rest of this story.
Nintendo’s response was swift. In just the next 24 hours we received a cease and desist letter from Nintendo. The letter was simple: “The recent picture of the new Mario Kart Wii game is in violation of your exclusive rights. We will take the appropriate action to remove it.
I don’t know how we missed this one, but Nintendo’s legal team sent us a cease and desist letter. This is a very quick and cheap method of getting out of an unpleasant situation. It’s a common tactic for companies to send cease and desists to websites that post illegal content. I didn’t even notice until I got the letter.
