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Should we be more careful???

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 26 Jul 2012 20:21

??????????????????

should this make us think a bit?????


from GR's Wall on FB .........


Genes Reunited shared a link.
Yesterday
Have you noticed the Genes box on Friends Reunited? It's a great place to share and store your memories, and even post your family history discoveries! If you have any old photos, even ones you've posted on our Facebook page , you can upload them straight from your computer to the box>

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Browse through the gallery of discovered ancestors, and add the photos of people you've found using Genes Reunited. Discover who you really are with the UK's leading family history site. Search over 750 million

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and it shows a photo from 1851 of a Victorian lady, with the surname Mahill




I don't think I like the idea of photos and pictures being taken from this site, and posted on FR's site ............ and people told to take what they what :-|



also posted on General Chat and Geneology Chat



sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 26 Jul 2012 20:25

... but it does say

"Store your personal memories securely

Everything you upload will be stored safely and securely in your Keepsafe. Use it like your online memory bank - anything you add is automatically private until you choose to share it"

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 26 Jul 2012 20:37

HAH!


Have you been over there recently????


your own photos that you upload on FR may well be stored safely in your memory box ............... although I've loads of photos from people's memory boxes showing on my Home Page, and they all pertain to the town, school, university etc that I have listed on FR. BUT I do not know ANY of the people who apparently have these photos in their Memory Boxes.


In this case though ................ you, MC, are not loading your photos into your Memory Box on FR.

FR is lifting the photos from GR, and posting them in the open ......... and you MC, or me, have no control of who takes the photo and copies into their Memory Box.



sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 26 Jul 2012 20:41

Well, that's why I don't use any of GR or FR facilities!

Only have a rubbish tree on here that I never update.

Dea

Dea Report 26 Jul 2012 20:42

This is 'very why' I don't feel safe 'over there' !!

Dea Xxx

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 26 Jul 2012 20:55

But Dea, it's "over here" !!

Dea

Dea Report 26 Jul 2012 20:58

Surely not MC - Sylvs said "from GR's Wall on FB ......... " ???

Is not that still 'over there' ???

Dea xxx

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 26 Jul 2012 21:02

Yes, Dea


"over there" is where they have published the information.


BUT Friends Reunited is being allowed to take the photos from on here, and post them on the FR site


so it is photos you may have posted on GR, either as your avatar or in the photos and video section that are being "lifted" by FR


They have not told GR members on HERE that this is happening!





sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Dea

Dea Report 26 Jul 2012 21:14

That is VERY poor Sylvs !!

Fortunately I don't trust my own family details to any site on the web !!!

Dea xxx

Linda

Linda Report 26 Jul 2012 21:23

yet another reason for members not to renew their membership

Linda

Linda Report 26 Jul 2012 21:30

yet another reason for members not to renew their membership