How safe is it to post your real picture on a social networking site ?  

i usually dont respond to any discussion unless the real pic is up, but since your new, welcome, and ill be seeing ya i hope. for myself i dont care what people think. there was a young woman a few months ago who put her naked pics up and then wondered why no one would answer her discussions, they were most likely too busy looking at her pics and passed the discussion up. i told her to take them down and see what happens and she started getting responses. id say 95 % of the people here are pretty cool and respectable people. have a great day

actually its not really safe. like, when you already post your picture, your giving up that picture's privacy. its not yours anymore though it is you on the picture, everyone can use it now. I've experience a lot of this on Friendster.com (a popular social networking site), those people who use other's picture in order to have many friends or to deceive people. i really don't get the point of using other persons picture. for me, your just making the person in the picture your using more popular. i don't even know what self benefits they can get on using others picture. well now, social networking sites such as Facebook uses privacy controls in order to protect not juts picture but also users personal info. good isn't it?. keep safe people! :)

I have no problem posting pics of myself, my family (kids hubby etc) and friends on social sites like FB..BUT I also have my profile privacy settings set so that ONLY ppl on my friends list can see them...LOL not that it matters since I had two websites a few yrs ago that had tons of personal pics on them...

I, always display the original image, I never show a false picture. I feel if my picture is a picture display common and normally would not be dangerous.

Generally most of the people do not like to put the real picture of theirs it is because of many ifs and buts in their minds.. I believe in only one theory, if u add friends who u know then it is better to share the original picture.. Belief is the bottom line, if u believe particular social netwroking site is safe then it is safe. But without knowing much about a person never add anyone to friends list.. But in spite of many good people there will be some bad one as well, so we have to face them also.. Fianlly, I will post my profile picture in particular site if i am comfortable if not I will not..

I use a real picture of myself as my avatar but I don't think anyone can use it for anything evil. And as I have several similar pictures, I can have different ones at different sites. Of course, there might be people out there thinking mean and evil thoughts when they see shadows on snow, but I'll take the chance :-)

There's picture you should be careful to post of course, pictures from parties, the beach etc. Pictures of children also.

I am really shy of posting pictures of myself, that's why there are only a few on the internet. I don't think it's 100% safe, though.

on sites like Facebook, they just post their real picture so they can interact with friends in their school. i think these people don't know and don't care about the threat anyways. i also think that these kind of people aren't stupid enough to fall for stalkers, but that's my opinion. i might be completely wrong.

since you mentioned social networking in genereal and not mylot in particular,
i would definitely say thats its a bad decision uploading original photos
to those sites. What's worse is that when you keep your privacy level to low and
everyone , those not even in your friends list might be able to view your photos.
though some sites like orkut offer protection in the sense the images cant be copied on
theres lots of loopholes and your image from tha alnum can be easilyt downloaded by random people.

Hello,
It is not absolutely unsafe. Though someone may oppose strongly, but they actually don't know about the power of information. Privacy is a vague term today. There is no private thing that can't be trespassed easily. I've seen a thing in orkut. Somebody used a picture of her in her album. Now, she was quite pretty and people started copying her picture. Some of them even included it in their profile. Now this type of thing can be damaging to your reputation. Of course, one may argue that we shouldn't worry so much about our reputations over some social networking site. But this opinion again is a sheer underestimation of the strength of information, and comes from shallow thinking. Anyone who is not ready to use his own picture, may certainly use an avatar that wholly or partly represents his personality. There is certainly no harm in it. One should have every right to choose his way of socializing.
God bless you