Posting a picture on FB? Don't!

Ok, so it's been a year and a half since my last (first) entry. Clearly, nothing has gone on in my life worth writing about, so I'll choose instead to rant. *Big Breath* Here goes:

People, just because you have a camera in your phone and a Facebook account in no way gives you the right to take pictures of people and post them. It just doesn't. With social media, we have lost our privacy. We have lost respect for each other as people. It's ridiculous. I'm a private person. I don't like having my picture taken. I especially don't like people taking my picture and posting it on Facebook without my permission or knowledge (emphasis on permission). Yet, at a party I recently attended, someone felt she had the right to do just that. She tagged me in the picture, so I saw it right away on my phone. I asked her to remove it. She snarled at me that I should just untag my self. I said no, please remove it. She did, but then she unfriended me and blocked me. THEN, she either had her husband unfriend me, or she got into his account and did it herself. Really? Really?? I was flabbergasted. A grown woman, somewhere around 50 years old, was so offended that I asked her to remove a picture she had no right to take and no right to post, that she resorted to the level of a tantrum-throwing 5 year old and (read in a snotty, spoiled brat tone) IS NOT MY FRIEND NO MORE!

What really hacked me off was that A) I despise having my picture taken and B) I don't necessarily need the world to know what I'm doing and where I am. Turns out, she'd posted pictures of other party-attendees as well, and they didn't like that she did that, either. None of those people have said anything to her about it, though. And given her completely ridiculous reaction, I can see why! It's more important to this woman to post her pictures than to have a teeny tiny smidge of respect or consideration for other people's feelings or even their space. How selfish and juvenile.  I can say my respect for her dwindled down to pretty much nothing. I can not fathom any circumstance that would justify how she behaved and how she treated me. To this day, she's not spoken to me. And, to that I say, "Meh." Who cares? Clearly she wasn't someone I'd consider a friend to start with, so I'm not feeling much loss over this "friendship." I will, however, continue to champion the rights of the introverts and private people who don't feel the world needs visual evidence of their party attendance. So take that, Facebook photo posters! Ha! ;-)