Unfortunately for my dear friend, Natalie she now second guesses it every day.
Watch her video and find out why.
I cant even remember how I "met" Natalie but we have been drawn together as two grieving moms. She lost her sweet daughter, Maddie, too. Natalie's constant support and prayers have really kept me going. She recently had another sweet girl, Em. Natalie is the one of the sweetest Godly women I know. She befriended many people, just like me, on Facebook. As she was posting pictures of her brand new little girl and some creeper was stealing them and pretending baby Em was her own baby! Who does that?
With the Internet these days people are doing this more and more. A while back someone was stealing pictures of my Maddie pretending to of lost her. That just really make me sick!!
So what I suggest doing is look at your Facebook settings. Make sure nothing on your profile is searchable. Make all of your pictures to "friends only view". If you have a blog disable the right click option and watermark everything! I know watermarking is annoying and it is just another extra step, but its worth it. I even started watermarking my pics on Instagram. Now, I know this cant stop someone who really wants your pictures but it will definitely make it a little big harder.
All I wanted to say is be careful. Take a minute before you post something on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. I just want to keep our babies safe!!
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8 comments:
How do you disable the right click option? I did not know you could do that. Is there a way to find out if your photos are being taken from your site?
Someone did this with my sisters deceased child. It was her own birth mother actually (she was adopted because the birth mother has mental issues) so anyways my sister had a rememberance group for her son, and the birth mother somehow kicked my sister out of the group. well she didnt know that i was still in it, so i made myself admin as there wasnt one, added back my sister and our other sister and blocked the ones that stole the photos. it was super creepy though because she was saying that it was her baby, she had even given him a different name, and posting the images that my sister had posted to remember her son by. I have no idea why people are so sick to do such things!
Wow...what an eye opener, thanks for sharing!
May I ask how you disable the right click feature on your blog? I looked through the settings and I can't figure it out. I use blogger.
Thanks!
I have a pretty popular instagram account that is just silly pictures of my dogs…a couple weeks ago someone messaged me and brought my attention to someone's account who had been reposting a ton of my pictures claiming to be me and pretending she owned my dogs. I reverse searched a few of my most liked pictures and found 2 other accounts of people claiming my dogs as their own! Not near as bad as someone claiming my child, but just saying…there are some WEIRD people out there…you really can't be too careful.
Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention!! It's so hard to believe the things people will do for some attention.
Ugh! Thanks for the tips! I always have my facebook account to "friends only" and I never let people I don't know "follow" me on Instagram. How sad is this? We just can never be too careful these days. :(
I had this happen to me. It all came out about a month ago and the person had been acting like my children were her's for TWO YEARS! She had an instagram, blog and facebook page all acting like they were her kids. She even used pictures of me and my husband. She used the same first names for all of us, but changed the last name. It was definitely disturbing.
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