''stealing'' pictures on facebook?

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Does anyone know how my mum is able to take pictures from my albums and putting them on her profile. ive told her before not to put up photos of my son because she has a lot of ''internet friends'' who she's never met or even knows whether they are real.

Anyway i put up some pictures onto my profile today, my settings are all friends only, and within an hour my mums taken a load, plus some of me on a hen do and at a friends shoot. Im sorry but i dont want her freinds seeing them!

Another family member whose hen do it is has already contacted her to say take them down, and im worried its going to come back onto me. I didnt know this was possible and how can i stop it. if i have to block my mum i will.
 
If you can see a photo then you can steal it easily. You can either save the image, download it or you could even take a screenshot if those options weren't possible. I'm afraid to say that the only way to stop people seeing photos is not to put them online in the first place!
 
Put your settings so your mum cannot see your photos?

Oh, and perhaps mention that you don't want her doing it - have you actually told her to stop it?

In fact, you can set your default setting so that all your friends, except your mum can see your stuff an then just post up the occasional innocuous status/pics that she CAN see (by altering the 'share' setting on the post).
 
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yes. previously when she first opened her account i told her in no uncertain terms to take down all the pictures of us, (as did a couple of other family members) because not only was she taking them directly from my camera, but also sending them to ''friends'' she had never met. we actually had a row over it, apparently she has every right to do that as he is her grandson and she wants people to see him.

Since it happened again i deleted all the photos of him from her computer, so she could only veiw them as she couldnt be trusted.

I would block her completely but it is the only way to monitor what shes doing with any information about us, she can be incredibly vindictive.

My facebook account does not allow anyone but my friends to see the photos i have, or anything else for that matter.
 
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My facebook account does not allow anyone but my friends to see the photos i have, or anything else for that matter.
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But your mum must be 'a friend' or she wouldnt be able to see your pics to steal them? What I am saying is you can keep her as a 'friend', but severely limit what she can see on your account by adjusting your settings. If she can't see the pics of your son, she can't lift them. That way, there is no unpleasantness from defriending or blocking, but she can't do it. :)
 
as Chico Mio has said I would just block her from viewing your pics - go to your album- edit info - privacy - customise, then you just type her name in where it says 'hide from these people' :)
 
horsegirl said:
What is she took photos on an actual camera and showed them to people? How is that any different?
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because they would be real people in real life, and they would only be able to look, not access th pictures and take them.

Im sorry it sounds really silly but a friend of mine had over 50 pictures of her and her newborn stolen via a parenting forum and someone pretended to be her. it was really upsetting for her and as alot of my mums friends are literally just profiles of people ahes met on runescape type sites i dont trust them.
she actually emailed some pictures of my son to someone called nexxus or something from runescape who said they were a middle aged mum of two, but she didnt have any proof that it wasnt some paedophile searching the net for gullible women like her.

Thanks for your help. shes just barefaced lied to the family member saying she had permission so im cutting her out of facebook as well as my life. Im tired of things like this happening all the time.
 
But she could take photos on her own camera/phone and email them to people or complete strangers could take pictures of you while you are out and about and you would never know. It seems a bit extreme to cut your mother out of your life over a few photos on facebook.
 
HG I reckon it must be more than that. Perhaps this is the straw that broke the camels back. I must admit if I asked my own mum not to do something, she wouldn't do it. So can understand how frustrating it must be. I am sure there must be more to it than photos though.

OP Why not try chicos advice and prevent her from viewing any photos?
 
If my mum did that even after i'd asked her not to she'd be removed and blocked, also can you report the photos? By removing and blocking i don't mean from your life, just facebook
 
If your mum is listed as a friend on your facebook account, she can just 'tag' herself into those photos, and they will appear on her profile. If you de-tag her, they should disappear from her photo file. The only way to stop her tagging herself is to remove her as a friend.
 
I read about all you've been through with your mum in the other thread, block her, she doesn't deserve to be showing off her grandson when she's no grandmother to him anyway
 
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