A pet peeve: Having your photo taken when you'd rather not!

"Someone who doesn't want to be photographed won't be posing for a group photo. "

There are people who want to be photographed so put themselves in all the group photos then try to veto it being on FB and spoiling it for everyone else.

It's not usual to have to ask consent from friends. It's understood that photos may go on FB.

Oh, companies taking photos of people and using for business purposes are covered by GDPR - I've got hoops to jump through at work re this. So unless PP have signed something when they joined the gym / fitness class saying their image can be shared then the posts of them exercising are absolutely not OK.

Wow your aunt sounds like a loon! The only consolation is that no one would watch it

I think it's entirely understandable that groups / hobbies etc want to take photos and post to SM.

I think it's also entirely reasonable for them to say 'let's take a photo' and for X to say 'ohh, not me thanks, I'll just stand over there out the way'

What's not reasonable is taking photos of people who don't know you're doing it and chucking it all over SM. Also not reasonable to say you don't want to be in a photo but refusing to move out the way so the people who do want to be can be snapped.

Street photography, I think, is a grey area. It's legal, it's a recognised 'art form', it's superficially no different to someone seeing you walk down the street. But it's also a much wider audience than just the people in the street that day.

My DF used to do it quite a bit as an amateur club member - I'd tried to point out it could be problematic if their were adopted kids / DV victims in shot whose location could be disclosed by the photo. He didn't really get it, despite my best efforts. The other day he was telling me that he was absolutely outraged that someone had entered street photo of a child in a national comp, the parents had seen it out of the blue and asked for it to be removed, and the photographer had refused to do so. He gets it now!

It is very rude to take and post photos of other people online without their consent.

Just politely decline, which is what I do. Sometimes explain why, if needed.

I think there's a mixture. I know some people (like my dd) who will squawk and make a huge fuss if anyone tries to take photos at anything at any time.
It's really frustrating (and no I share very little on SM) because I think "oh I'd like a nice photo to send to Granny/remember this", get the camera out and I get hands in front of faces, deliberately turning away, screwing up in a ball etc. It turns what would have been 5 seconds into a huge fuss. She always complains that she "isn't ready", but never is ready.
I don't think it's unreasonable to have occasional photos, but I now have very few photos of my family because of the fuss it causes every time. And actually I find that sad, because I would like, and I suspect in later years she will regret it, some nice photos of my family together.

But there are people who constantly take photos and share them all (well all that they look good in) on SM and I can understand how people feel if they don't want that.

When people join a club I belong to they are asked if they mind being in an occasional group photo on our website and we are careful to respect their wishes. Members are asked only to post their own photos on social media if other people are unrecognisable (in the distance or viewed from behind... It's a walking group, so you frequently don't notice photos being taken 🙂).

If someone has a personal reason for avoiding photos it's their own business, they shouldn't have to explain it to all and sundry.

People who insist on taking your photo (usually by sneaky means and then crowing about it afterwards) are twats.

I can’t be on social media and refuse to have my photo taken in any circumstance just in case it appears on social media. I don’t care what other people think, that’s entirely up to them.

Someone who doesn't want to be photographed won't be posing for a group photo. Calling them sensitive for not wanting to pose is ridiculous.

What's the issue then? Assuming you're an adult talking part in a legal activity?

Then why pose for a group photo?

Yes, I agree, they can step out of the photo.
What they want though is for the photo to be taken, but not be put on FB, which is selfish. In one case, a person wouldn't allow photos to be shared at all.

I think you need to find new groups if they behave like that when they ask you if you don't want to be in a photo. My groups do this too and there's no judgement if someone doesn't want to be in the picture.

Not wanting to be photographed doesn't make someone automatically 'sensitive'.

Then they can step out, it’s not rocket science.

It might be a group photo though so one person who's very sensitive shouldn't spoil that for everyone else.
Good for you Janet.

Yes, there's no excuse for not sharing in some way with electronic photos. Or people who say you don't need to take photos because they will and then they don't share them.

If you don't want to be photographed fine, but don't get into the photo and then ban anyone from putting it on FB. The others are happy to be on FB so it's selfish to do that!

I think that in English and Welsh law anyone can photograph you in a public place and publish it.

I just tell them I don't want to be in the photo. I hate folk who publish photos with other folk's kids in them, often on their public instagram or FB accounts.