Asexual too! It also does nothing for me. But I recognize there are many for whom it will, specifically because they might suspect those girls to be underage. The thumbnail picture looks like something I would have taken in my teen years—simply me existing in my school uniform—but I also recognize she is probably pretty and it shows legs (which will up the rate she gets sexualized at, no matter how nonsexual her intent or how nonsexual the intent of her parent that posted that), and that pedophiles exist.
The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads”.
Blah blah Meta untrustable, but even still I expected “private” to mean “you might train AI models on my pictures and do stuff with my data, but strangers won’t be seeing my pictures.” Did not expect it to be put in ads. I’m so so lucky I intentionally never posted anything I would feel uncomfortable having the public at large see, but it still feels like a violation to know that I expected nobody outside my social circle, nobody outside people I approved as followers would be allowed to see my stuff in-app. That Instagram would not recommend my stuff or show it to strangers.
(Yes, I am super aware I could have misjudged a person I let follow me, and that follower could 1) screenshot my stuff and 2) post it on some public forum like Reddit, “look at this [insulting adjective] person, let’s mock them”—which is another reason why everything I posted is incredibly safe for work, but even still. Who knows, I might be getting mocked publicly on r/milquetoastdullpeople r/livelaughlove or a Lemmy equivalent or something. The point is Facebook breaking the expectations we had of it. And need I say I made my account far before it was a Facebook acquisition, and then all my peers were there, so… please don’t blame my teenage self for not doing the perfect FOSS user thing and severing all connections to avoid Facebook’s awful practices. There’s a lot of dumb stuff teens do for social approval. I didn’t drink and drive or go 95mph in a 25 to look cool, post pictures of myself at a party next to people passed out, none of those dumb kid life-risking thrillseeker mistakes, let my teenage self have this more quiet failing.)
Thanks for the warning, even more reason I should actually delete all my stuff on Instagram instead of just leaving the account inactive.
Asexual too! It also does nothing for me. But I recognize there are many for whom it will, specifically because they might suspect those girls to be underage. The thumbnail picture looks like something I would have taken in my teen years—simply me existing in my school uniform—but I also recognize she is probably pretty and it shows legs (which will up the rate she gets sexualized at, no matter how nonsexual her intent or how nonsexual the intent of her parent that posted that), and that pedophiles exist.
Blah blah Meta untrustable, but even still I expected “private” to mean “you might train AI models on my pictures and do stuff with my data, but strangers won’t be seeing my pictures.” Did not expect it to be put in ads. I’m so so lucky I intentionally never posted anything I would feel uncomfortable having the public at large see, but it still feels like a violation to know that I expected nobody outside my social circle, nobody outside people I approved as followers would be allowed to see my stuff in-app. That Instagram would not recommend my stuff or show it to strangers.
(Yes, I am super aware I could have misjudged a person I let follow me, and that follower could 1) screenshot my stuff and 2) post it on some public forum like Reddit, “look at this [insulting adjective] person, let’s mock them”—which is another reason why everything I posted is incredibly safe for work, but even still. Who knows, I might be getting mocked publicly on r/milquetoastdullpeople r/livelaughlove or a Lemmy equivalent or something. The point is Facebook breaking the expectations we had of it. And need I say I made my account far before it was a Facebook acquisition, and then all my peers were there, so… please don’t blame my teenage self for not doing the perfect FOSS user thing and severing all connections to avoid Facebook’s awful practices. There’s a lot of dumb stuff teens do for social approval. I didn’t drink and drive or go 95mph in a 25 to look cool, post pictures of myself at a party next to people passed out, none of those dumb kid life-risking thrillseeker mistakes, let my teenage self have this more quiet failing.)
Thanks for the warning, even more reason I should actually delete all my stuff on Instagram instead of just leaving the account inactive.