Smelvis wrote:
Vegas Bob wrote:
I don't accept the "I only share them with my closest friends". In these guy's minds,they don't have an enemy in the world.
Hi Bob
I am one I do exactly as I say always! And before many of the gals begged to have their picture posted and even then you won't find any by me.
friends mean other mongers who might be interested, ...
I'm sure you do mean what you say. However, I hate to break it to you but while you may think you're being true to your word of not letting the pics you take get out by only sharing it with "other mongers", your word is really only as good as those "other mongers". The only really completely reliable way of not letting those pics get out is to ALWAYS retain complete physical and electronic control. I don't know if by other mongers you mean buddies you've personally known for years or just any body who has paid a little money to join CRT and MAYBE has made a few posts.
But, even if its the former, otherwise well-intentioned and usually reliable buddies have been known to slip. Back in the day when I used to share electronic media I had some of my photos reposted on ISG by a "friend" who I had e-mailed those photos to and I had to contact Jackson (the ISG Admin) to have them removed. Who knows how many other guys had downloaded those pics before that was done? More recently, another friend of mine complained to me that a mutual friend of ours had used some of the photos he had sent him in a photo montage that the 3rd guy had put together and mass e-mailed to dozens of other guys we don't even know. At that point there was no real way to get them back or determine what later happened to them. This friend thought he knew our other friend well and that he could trust him, but this basically well-meaning guy suffered from a temporary but serious lapse in judgment and you never really know for certainwhich "friend" of yours might have a similar lapse.
And if its the latter and you consider posting your pics in a supposedly password protected CRT VIP Gallery so that it is only accessible to "other CRT mongers" will keep some monger you don't really know that well or even at all from doing something with those photos that you wouldn't normally do yourself, then you're only fooling yourself. This has already happened before at least one time that we know of with a photo montage someone put together of HLH pics from the VIP Gallery and then posted on YouTube.
I can understand wanting to show a friend what might be available in CR or even photos of a particular chica you might want to help set him up with. And you may even have permission from that chica to "show" her photos to that particular guy (or guys). But "show" doesn't necessarily mean "give", which is what sending electronically really amounts to, and it certainly doesn't mean posting it in what is ultimately an insecure location that can be accessed by mongers you don't even know and possibly spread much wider than that. And even if she did say it was okay to e-mail them, just like you she's relying on your judgment of the "other mongers" and isn't really thinking through the possible end results. But who do you think she'll blame if they get out, the guy who took the photos and said that other guy was okay or the other guy? Actually probably both, but do you really want to be either of those guys that she blames? So PHYSICALLY showing them the pics (if that is possible) may be okay because you have absolute control on who you show them to. But if you share them electronically with anyone else, your promise to her will only be as good as their promise to you and do you really want your word to be in the hands of any one other than yourself? When your "friend" forgets his promise and sends it on to someone else you don't know or even posts it somewhere on-line and eventually someone the chica DIDN'T want to see it (like a boyfriend or family member) comes across it, who do you think the chica is going to blame?