My mom does a lot of ancestry. She sits on the computer all day doing it. She seems to spend as much time populating current information about immediate family as she does trying to research the past.
I had once very firmly told her I did not like her posting my pictures and info online. Just the basics, like my name and stuff is fine if she wants to build a family tree. The whole thing still bothers me. I wish I could just have my way.
That was a few years ago. Today she is still at it on a new website and a new tree it seems. She is posting my pictures of not just a simple face shot, but of me winning awards or hobbies and with other family members, etc. Who knows how much textual information she is posting about where I work, etc.
She thinks it is not a big deal because only the people she allows to see it, can see it. Anyone can pretend they are somebody. In fact, someone she found in distant family had their email hacked. My mom was sent a fake email with a link to more information about his side of the family. It wasn't sent officially though ancestry.com. Luckily I teach her about how to pay attention to fake things, and I had Avast install which blocked it.
It just makes me mad to see her doing it. I use facebook, and have a twitter. I don't have my real name, and I limit what I say. I am careful about ranting. Ok. I used to have my real name on twitter, back when I was trying to be professional about it as a web developer. But I am not longer doing that. (google will still find it)
I only recently put my real last name on facebook to enter a contest. I have limited pictures of me, I do post all the concerts I go to, some basic life events of what I am doing. I delete old posts.
Anyway.... what should I do? What can I even do? I try to ignore it because you can't control everyone. But I think its wrong. I think she does not understand the possibilities and the privacy issues with posting stuff online like that.
I had once very firmly told her I did not like her posting my pictures and info online. Just the basics, like my name and stuff is fine if she wants to build a family tree. The whole thing still bothers me. I wish I could just have my way.
That was a few years ago. Today she is still at it on a new website and a new tree it seems. She is posting my pictures of not just a simple face shot, but of me winning awards or hobbies and with other family members, etc. Who knows how much textual information she is posting about where I work, etc.
She thinks it is not a big deal because only the people she allows to see it, can see it. Anyone can pretend they are somebody. In fact, someone she found in distant family had their email hacked. My mom was sent a fake email with a link to more information about his side of the family. It wasn't sent officially though ancestry.com. Luckily I teach her about how to pay attention to fake things, and I had Avast install which blocked it.
It just makes me mad to see her doing it. I use facebook, and have a twitter. I don't have my real name, and I limit what I say. I am careful about ranting. Ok. I used to have my real name on twitter, back when I was trying to be professional about it as a web developer. But I am not longer doing that. (google will still find it)
I only recently put my real last name on facebook to enter a contest. I have limited pictures of me, I do post all the concerts I go to, some basic life events of what I am doing. I delete old posts.
Anyway.... what should I do? What can I even do? I try to ignore it because you can't control everyone. But I think its wrong. I think she does not understand the possibilities and the privacy issues with posting stuff online like that.
