Is it OK to post photos of friends on Facebook without permission?

A true friend would not post a picture with out asking 1st

Bad enough to post it. To post the picture and identify who it is would be worth a shake of the shoulders. (To be polite.)

Seriously? Ask first? Really?

Example, it's a group picture, say a school class picture from 40 years ago, and I'm reading here that most feel that someone should ask for permission. Question from the all the people, or just the ask the ones that might be offended if they run across it on someone they don't know FBwall.

Example, you attend a dinner, wedding, other public event or party and someone is taking pictures, they post them for their FB friends. You don't know them or their friends but they should ask for you permission? Really? How is that even possible, since they don't know you and you don't know them?

Maybe many are just hung up on their own self importance. Does anyone realize how many times their image is recorded every time they are in public? There is no expectation of privacy for ones public image.

The transfer of info from one friend to another friend and then they use it,is the other problem agreeing with what you say, is that its the third persons property now, and no permission has been given or asked for, or you just happen to be in the shot of another, and they post it anddon't even know you. So don't send it, if you don'twant it to be seen.

My mother invited me to facebook, I sent her an email that said "facebook? OMG I got hives and indigestion. Not me no way never. It can become toxic"

Actually besides not being OK for many, it is also against the rules. It says clearly that there should be permission of posting pictures, if the person is clearly visible and up front in the picture.

I could not care less if some one posts pictures and I'm in them, but i would never post anything anywhere without permission.

I voted this article up also.

What I do with a can of motor oil and a turkey baster while naked at an office party is nobody's business... I don't care if you do happen to have a camera phone after I've had too much to drink.

Sorry for the rant, but I feel strongly about this.

Wow this is a great topic/question. We (my hubby and I) have a small circle of friends. Whenever we have get togethers or parties the cameras are always clicking away. No one ever asks permission to post the pics and we are all on facbook. What we will try to do is "omit" the unflattering ones of each other...and try to be respectful in that regard. If someone has an issue, which is almost never, we will delete said photo immediately. If pics are taken outside of our group we always ask permission. Seems to work for us :-)

I've never posted a picture of any of my friends without their permission. I also never ask to post pictures of them that I know would be embarrassing for them. I'm especially careful if the picture includes my friends or family member's children. Even though I have my facebook set so that no one can see pictures unless they are my friends, I feel it's important to respect their wishes. I never have been told I couldn't post a picture from a friend - probably because I only post pictures in which we are all behaving.

If someone wants to put my ugly mug on the internet then I don't care. It's all part of my plans for world domination

I only put pictures up of people I know personally. I do occasionally put art up or writings of my own but I will not put pictures up of people I don't know. I also consider what is the picture showing. I'm not going to put a picture up of a friend that just had his nose broken at a bar hitting on the wrong woman.

I also don't post pics up of my friends kids without expressed permission. There are rules and ettiquete to everything

Hmmm a tough one. I'm not on FB and yet I have friends/family who are who also post pictures. There's the friend at whose 30th birthday wake I would only allow my picture to be taken once - giving a one-fingered salute - and I know that picture ended up on FB. My boyfriend's profile pic is one of the two of us together - but at least he asked me and got my approval prior to using the picture. I hate having my picture taken to begin with but I have camera-happy relatives who post just about every picture of their kids on FB.

On the whole I'd have to say that its not okay to use someone's picture without their permission but I'm realistic enough to know that there are some people for whom permission never really enters their thought processes.

I don't really mind having my pictures tagged, because I can always remove the tag if I want to. Where I have a problem is when people post pictures or information that is not theirs to post. Like pictures of your newborn that were emailed to out of town family and posted on Facebook before you have a chance to. Or the fact that your grandson won his tennis tournament without giving his mother the chance to brag on her son. Or posting a picture of your son and congratulating him on earning his master's before giving his wife who helped him get it a chance to post it.

Is my bitterness showing?