Show me pics of you, your horse/field/menage

Mrs. Glittery Jingle Balls

Mrs. Glittery Jingle Balls

Well-Known Member
Joined
17 September 2009
Messages
7,631
Location
Deep in Bandit Country
Visit site
I have noticed a fair few of this type of posts lately requesting pics of you, your horse, your field, your menage or whatever. Not necessarily on here but on the internet in general.

Is it just me who always has a slight sense of unease to see how many people happily share very private and detailed pics that could easily identify them, their horse and where they are kept or live? I do occasionally share pics of my horses on a smaller more intimate forum, and can see they would be accessible by pretty much anyone sad enough to spend their time stalking me. :rolleyes: But perhaps I am being a bit over cautious.

I guess the recent discussions about online privacy has prompted my post, it would be interesting to see if anyone else feels the same. I appreciate we have the choice to post pics in response to that type of thread, I just wonder how many do so without giving the privacy side of it much thought?
 
I can't say it bothers me tbh
I participate in a few online communities and i don't hide my identity. If people want to stalk me then they'll soon find it quite boring. I am careful with sensitive info as everyone should be but I don't consider a photo of my field to be that sensitive ;)
 
I may put the odd 'neutral' picture up, however I'm a suspicious old cove and try not to put anything on line that is too personal. I'm also realistic enough to know that everything online is there for good and can be collated.

Not a great picture-taker anyway as I find it gets in the way of the flow of whatever I'm doing.
 
MotherOfChickens said:
reverse image searching? very easy to find someone's FB profile and anything else they may have posted.
Click to expand...
Yes, but how is that a security risk?
My FB profile is locked down and all my posts are private, friends only, and I don't accept friend requests from randomers. I rarely post about being on holiday and I never put any personal details up.
 
I try to remain fairly anon on here because I've shared things about my personal life I don't want all and sundry to know about me.

I don't care about any perceived security issues stemming from putting a pic on here - there's about 100 people IRL who know where I live/where I keep my horses/where I hang out etc. If something's going to happen (although not sure what that would be...) I don't think it's going to be a randomer on a forum. I don't even bother locking down my FB - the only thing I post about is my horse.
 
It doesn't worry me but if I wasn't retired and in no need of a job, I certainly would share what I share now on this forum. The only times over the years that I've had sharing backfire on me so far is in nastiness from a very small number of other forum members.

Though for the record I would like to inform any would be burglars that the house, road and yard are covered by CCTV and we never leave it without house sitters in 😁

.
 
I have posted on here that we are on holiday soon, and will probably post pics on fb whilst we are away. D will be at home though looking after the cat and the house, plus neighbours will keep an eye out.
 
I'm being stalked by Talk Talk! I am so sick of rushing in from the garden to answer the phone, tripping over the dog, sliding on the kitchen floor only to be told they are going to cut off my internet. We don't use Talk Talk! I do know a couple of people on here but I don't post on FB that we are on hols although someone is always here to look after MIL etc. I love to put pics of the horses on here, you are the only people who are vaguely interested in seeing them, the rest of my family couldnt care less!
 
I am not on fb.
I haven't posted any photos here that would identify anything.
There are lots of fields in the uk with grass in.

At the end of the day I think when the Internet started we didn't necessarily know the 'it is there for life'
No offense intended but most of us are just everyday people with everyday lives. Any stalkers would die of boredom.

Now on the flipside if you compete even at rc level the chances are your details are on their websites. If you are on any teams it will say who, with the possibilities of seeing who you are and who your horse is.

Other people taking photos of me are more of concern than what I upload to be honest.
Someone I know in RL posted my photo with personal and private info all over the Internet and it took me three days to get fb to remove it!!! I am not even on fb, but those 72 hours was enough for it to go viral and I was devastated and humiliated.
 
I didn't actually mean the risk of stalkers - with my boring life and advanced years I think I might even be mildly flattered if someone thought I was worth stalking on the internet or anywhere else :D

I was thinking more along the lines of tack rooms being cleared out - horses stolen from isolated fields etc......sadly not everyone is honest and law abiding and I imagine the law of averages would mean we probably have a number of very dishonest thieves on here as well as on other areas of the internet. It is just a little worrying that IF you were vaguely in the neighbourhood of some posters and some information and pics that are shared really could be used for dishonest motives.

i.e I very often see long descriptions of how people travel down long lonely lanes to tend to their horses etc....no houses nearby and then at a later date pictures of said fields and area of them out riding....woudln't take a genius if you were the horse stealing fraternity and using other disclosed information over the posters forum time to very often know were unattended very sale able horses were kept without any security.....which tack rooms are full to the hilt with liveries tack overnight with nobody on site and very little or non existent security.

Perhaps I am just an old cynic and should be more trusting and take it all at face value - but I cant change what life has taught me .
 
No-one would be able to identify my yard from pics I've put on here, as it's surrounded by tree height hedges. I suppose my house would be identifiable from the road, and possibly the field with my track system, as you can see that one through the hedge. We've got very good security though, both on the yard, and the actual property - and no-one would make it as far as the yard without being spotted/challenged, as it's at the far end of the farm.
I have no qualms about posting a pic of my horse, in my manege, with one of my fields in the background!
65103936_10158365887755730_2517671771209990144_n.jpg
 
Someone good enough with IT could find any of us, (I think!!!) it is actually possible to find the IP address a message online was posted from.
But from simple searching no one who didn't already know me very well would be able to find me I don't think although I will acknowledge I probably overshare.
 
I don’t think you’d even need to be good at IT to track down some posters if you wanted to. It makes it easier if they link out to photos/videos/competition info that features their real name but even without that, there’s a lot that gets drip fed over the years. If you’ve got the sort of brain that remembers that sort of thing then it wouldn’t even take a lot of searching back through posts.

I was on a (non-horsey forum) back in about 2003 and some idiot took against one of the other posters and sent some printouts of his posting history to his work to try and get him sacked for being on the internet during work hours. That was with fairly minimal information (no Facebook etc, just a couple of things mentioned in various posts over a long period of time) so I’m always conscious that one malicious so-and-so can actually cause quite a lot of bother!
 
Lexi_ said:
I don’t think you’d even need to be good at IT to track down some posters if you wanted to. It makes it easier if they link out to photos/videos/competition info that features their real name but even without that, there’s a lot that gets drip fed over the years. If you’ve got the sort of brain that remembers that sort of thing then it wouldn’t even take a lot of searching back through posts.

I was on a (non-horsey forum) back in about 2003 and some idiot took against one of the other posters and sent some printouts of his posting history to his work to try and get him sacked for being on the internet during work hours. That was with fairly minimal information (no Facebook etc, just a couple of things mentioned in various posts over a long period of time) so I’m always conscious that one malicious so-and-so can actually cause quite a lot of bother!
Click to expand...

Crikey that is just awful :eek: I hadn't even thought that far ahead concerning workplace etc. but my goodness what an eyeopener and salutatory lesson too :oops:
 
MrsJingle said:
Perhaps I am just an old cynic and should be more trusting and take it all at face value - but I cant change what life has taught me .
Click to expand...


I agree with you. I think some people are rather too trusting on t'interweb, tbh. None of us has any idea who were are 'talking' to when we post on here, or any other forum. I watched a TV programme which showed how easy it is to find the details of any named person, using the internet, even those of us who don't use FB.
 
No, I don't think anyone could identify my property from pics unless they'd been here, in which case they would already be aware that there are horses here. And we have friendly visits from a police van all the time anyway, because the neighbours up the lane have been broken into that many times I'm pretty sure they have the gates programmed to call the police if someone so much as breaths on them these days.
I wonder though if you did get burgled, whether an insurance company might use it as an excuse not to pay out, particularly if you've mentioned that you are going to be away online. Probably not, because people must do it all the time on Facebook etc, but I do wonder.
 
As for insurance it wouldn't surprise me if horse insurance companies checked to see if you had been talking about a horse you then make a claim on.
We get the "my horse is lame threads" and if you leave a condition before you get the vet and lie about when it started, insurance might refuse to pay?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top