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Safety - and privacy - first.

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Some of you know who I am and I know some of you beyond the Forum names/avatars. I like my relative anonymity here and on other Forums for lots of reasons and probably most of you do also.

Having said that, it struck me that possibly some of you don't realise that if you post a photo of yourself - even if it is not a 'real' photo - and that photo is posted somewhere else on the internet, 'google search' could let someone access your information on that other forum/Page/site whatever.

I changed my pic yesterday and did the usual cross check - had to laugh because this was the result from google image search -

' Best guess for this image: human '

which is rather a relief LOL. In other words, the one other place I posted this is secure enough not to be harvested by google image search :)

However a few times on other sites etc, photos I have posted were traceable to the other - completely unassociated otherwise - sites. For instance - you might post a photo here and also on your FB page. You might not want people on FB place to know the information here, or vice versa but google image search could lead them to it.

Just thought I would throw this out here, the world is getting smaller and sometimes there are people in it one would prefer not to have any information that we would not wish them to have.

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RunaroundSue profile image
RunaroundSue

Best guess: human

That's what I thought :) :)

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Irish-JohnGraduate in reply to RunaroundSue

It's only a guess however! :O

Thank you for the info. I hadn't thought of that. I've just changed my pic!

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Sandraj39Graduate

Thanks for this John.

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OldflossAdministratorGraduate

Thanks John and well done on the 5K ... we are getting there my friend:)

I did mine and it came up with Health Unlocked... thanks John :)

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Irish-JohnGraduate

Should have added - if you REALLY like the picture and want to put it up, open it in one of those programmes that you use to brighten/darken/special effects photo apps. If you just even barely manipulate the photo it seems to fool tehh image search. I cropped mine a bit and that seems to have worked :)

Of course - it might also be that there is SOME doubt that I its only a 'best guess' that I am 'human' after all :)

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AnnieW55

But we know you are not 'just human' you are Super Human - just look at your comeback(s) - that's not 'just human'👍

Thank you for putting the thought out there. It's so easy to forget safety sometimes (says she who doesn't even have an avatar - too lazy)

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Irish-JohnGraduate in reply to AnnieW55

Super-stubborn maybe! 😂 Thanks Annie, and stay safe :)

I'm with AnnieW55 on this one - superhuman fits the bill perfectly.

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Irish-JohnGraduate in reply to

Y'all would be kinda dissilusioned I'm afraid if you knew me, but I do appreciate the nice compliments, thank you ☺

in reply to Irish-John

you seem to singlehandedly build all of the USA too....

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Irish-JohnGraduate in reply to

As long as they don't expect me to build a certain Wall...😂

in reply to Irish-John

well in fairness if you built one around his Trumpness, he’d feel safe and so would we!

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Irish-JohnGraduate in reply to

I remember Reagan had some of us convinced he would fight the USSR to the last European. 😓

Plus ca change...😕

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