Your caregivers can help
Adults you trust (like a parent or caregiver) can help you figure out the safest way to share your photos and videos with your online friends. Some websites let you keep photos you post private, which means only people that you want to see the photos are invited to see them. This doesn’t always stop people from copying the photos though, so keep in mind that once a photo or video is posted online, you’ve lost control over what happens to it. That’s why it’s always important to ask the permission of the person in the photo or video and your parent/caregiver before you decide to share anything, online or offline.
Lucy’s story
Lucy’s feeling pretty overwhelmed by all her IM friends asking to see the photos from her birthday party, and by the fact that someone on the other side of the world managed to find the website that the photos are posted on! She thinks about just deleting the photos completely but then remembers what her mum has told her about what can happen once photos are posted online. There’s no guarantee that someone hasn’t already copied her photos elsewhere on the net.
That night, Lucy waits till her dad’s finished cooking dinner and then asks both her parents if she can speak to them about the photos. She really wants to share them with her online friends, but doesn’t want every random person who comes across them to be able to see them. She’s pretty sure her friends who are in the photos wouldn’t be too happy with that either!
Lucy’s mum suggests that they find a website to post the photos on that lets them control who sees them. She says that some websites allow you to set something called ‘privacy settings’ which make it so that only the people you invite to see the photos, can. This sounds like a great idea to Lucy and together with her dad, she takes the photos down from the family website and finds a photo-sharing website that lets her restrict the viewing of the photos to her family and friends.
Lucy gets some great comments on the photo-sharing website about how much fun her party looked from her cousins in Australia. Everyone agrees that she looks a whole lot older in the photos than she did when she was a 7 year old!
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