Poll: This is why i dislike social media

Is it ok to take the photo and share it?

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Fine by me though I'd never do it as there are plenty of idiots in the world who will try to make a big deal out of it.
 
Like several others have said, I can't vote on the poll as neither option are apt.

I see nothing wrong with the photo, but I wouldn't have taken it.

I also wouldn't share any intimate moment on social media, but see nothing wrong with this couple doing so, provided they both agreed on it, if that's want they want. I'm not a social media fan, but if they are, that's their business not mine.

The moment it shows might be powerful but I don't find it an appealing photo. The Kelly Bannister one, on the other hand, shows much the same emotion but is a far more artful expression of it. That photo probably has commercial value, if they chose to utilise it.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
I don't see the need to share something like this on social media. There's nothing wrong with the picture, but family photo's are for family albums, not public consumption. Why do people feel the need to share all this stuff?
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It isn't a 'family photo', and it wasn't in a family album.

It is a photo of family, by a professional photographer, published on her own website.
 
Photography is about capturing a moment in time, the good photos tell a story and create an emotional response. As a photographer, I see absolutely nothing wrong with taking the image nor posting it, and in that case, I wouldn't because I'd be (and have been) the one in the shower with the child trying to drop their temp but if my wife did I'd only be upset about my man boobs being in the photo. Only one parent could have dealt with this child in this way, that leaves the other worried and feeling helpless. If her way of dealing with that was to grab her camera then that's fine.

Anyone that has a problem with it is, in my opinion, closed minded and not someone who's opinion I would care about hearing anyway. To compare that image with the one of the woman in the shower that received positive reactions screams of sexism and a world gone mad due to the media warping everyone's opinions.

Here are other powerful images:

http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Nguyen_Van_Lem_big.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b2/77/ab/b277ab6df9731a44e84035a8947fd074.jpg
https://polygrafi.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/vulture-child.jpg

Should these not have been taken and shared?
 
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No problem with the taking of the picture and the sharing of the picture.

I do have a problem with those that criticising for:
  • Taking the picture - We are all perfect parents, aren't we, never put a foot wrong ever?
  • The sharing of the picture - Don't like it, don't look.
  • Random outrage - keyboard warriors...
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
What does SJW stand for? But yeah, 100% agree with you.
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It stands for 'Social Justice Warrior' and people are increasingly using it completely out of context, like the person who said it in this thread.

I agree that there is now a strange culture of fear from people concerning men interacting with children these days (see the recent "Would you have stopped to help the lost child thread") but that's a societal thing and can't be attributed to "SJW".

Also - 'Social Justice' is a good thing, so making it a derogatory term for people is weird anyway.
 
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My missus is banned from taking a picture of me and sharing it on facebook.

Whats app I am not to fussed as its close friends but facebook just NO! :mad:
 
Great subject, poorly executed. The man's hand is dominant, the child is OOF, so the eye tends to wander about the frame. The edge of the shower screen is distracting, and the top of the child's head has been cut off. Disgusting is a bit strong. I'd say more could have been done to compose and frame the image better, however.

I'd give it 9/10 for subject, 4/10 for execution and 0/10 for the fact that the mother thought it necessary to post to FB.
 
don't see the issue with the photo in the OP

though the sentiment that people do share a bit too much on social media I can agree with somewhat

I remember seeing one photo of a teenage girl taking a selfie with her dead grandmother in the background as a sort of RIP Gran post... (I won't post it here but it is probably easy to find)

no doubt she's used to sharing everything, taking loads of selfies of various moments in life so the death of her gran probably seemed like another reason to take a selfie, though I do wonder what other relatives such as parents, uncles etc.. must have thought
 
as a general point though it probably is good to share things, I've only got a few photos of my grandparents, if facebook was around when they were younger it would be fascinating to look back at various special moments in their lives

until now most people are forgotten about within 2 generations(I certainly can't name all eight of my great grand parents, though I probably should find out more about them), social media is probably one of the few things that could even document the existence of most of us beyond our grand kids... otherwise we're merely names in some birth register that people can glance at briefly when constructing a family tree
 
Lovely story about the Dad just sitting in the shower letting his kid mess on him & not being bothered at all, Parents love right there. :cool:

As for the Doris posting a pic because she is proud of her fella then I think that's pretty cool as well. Not something I'd do myself but I wouldn't moan at her if she did it.
 
Who in their right mind would even consider it wouldn't raise eyebrows.

That said, if it was originally posted with the appropriate context in a closed group, fair enough.
 
Please excuse me if this point has been raised already, I have just had a quick skim through the thread and most seem to be along the lines of share share.

For me as a father I find this photo rather disturbing for the following two reasons.

1) As a parent, when my child is ill the absolute last thing on my mind is to take a photo.

But lets say you are a keen photographer and want to 'capture the beauty of the moment' yada yada... OK fine, your child, your camera on you go.

This brings us two my second issue

2) Was the child consulted before the photo was shared with the world on this scale? And did he give his approval?

I think not. Would you like someone to snap a photo of you at your most vulnerable and share it with the world without your consent? Do the parents of this child post images of themselves ill?

In a world were everything seems to be 'shared' 'liked' this photo is not surprising, but for me the parents lack of regard for their child privacy is.
 
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