Do you share pics of yourself dressed up on FB?

[DebbiAnne]

I have decided to delete post

[linda allen]

No. Never put anything on facebook (or any other site) that you don't want the world to know about. I won't even put my vacation plans on facebook because the wrong people might find out I am away from home.

[~Joanne~]

No, I haven't. I haven't created myself a femme FB page as the site tracks too much, cross shares everything without your permission, has zero concern about your privacy, and the list goes on and on. While you have the folder set to private, sooner or later your going to be completely outed because of the site itself. They will change something at some point that will change the settings on you and unless you really don't care about it, I would be concerned.

Like Linda stated, once you put something on the internet, it's there. there is no way to completely remove it.

EDIT: here is an example of a recent change they made without telling anyone, When you post to a friends wall, comment or like, now everyone can see it, whether they are on your friends list or not. So if your make a dressing reference with one of the 10 GG's, someone you know could find it and out you without you even knowing they saw it and put 2 + 2 together.

[RADER]

No. Never put anything on facebook (or any other site) that you don't want the world to know about. I won't even put my vacation plans on facebook because the wrong people might find out I am away from home.

I Totally Agree with you on this. Putting something on Face book is like putting it on the front
page of every news paper in the US.
Rader

[Alberta_Pat]

I Totally Agree with you on this. Putting something on Face book is like putting it on the front
page of every news paper in the US.
Rader


Should be quite safe then. Very few people actually look at the front page anymore. Sports, entertainment, pretty much says it all.

;)

[docrobbysherry]

I'm a closet dresser. So, Sherry has her own page with a different server! Nothing's held back from her many "Friends" there! Including quite a number from cd.com.

[I Am Paula]

I'm so out that I don't care who sees me how. That being said, I also don't feel the need to share my pictures (few as there are) with the world. I'm really curious-what does it accomplish? Way to many of my friends post pictures of their breakfast. Facebook has become a vast digital wasteland that accomplishes little except act as an information gathering device for advertising companies. Is the world a better place after you've posted a picture of a kitten? Or if you share vacation shots with people who don't know you? Expiring minds want to know-Celeste

[kimdl93]

im not on FB and almost never share pictures of myself with anyone, on this site or elsewhere.

[DebbiAnne]

I've spent so much time & energy dressing up over the years that it's a shame to keep it all bottled up. I've chosen to share my pics with those that I believe to be open-minded. If I never did this, I would never had the discussions with one of my best friends, who has shown unbelievable support. I think most peolpe if they stumbled upon my pics wouldn't know who they were looking at since my pics are pretty convincing from the comments that I have received. If you go out in public you could be outted & it would be the same thing...so chose your poison...LOL

[Lorileah]

Pictures? Me? Every time I can.

[cathie pantyhose]

I had a facebook account but inadvertantly added some of the wrong pics from my flicker account that ended up being to provocative and I was kicked off instead of them asking me to remove them myself. I'll try again but it was under Cathie P not my guy name

[Loni]

NO, i try to stay off the spyware titled facebook.
when you register up for there deal, you sign away your hard drive for there uses.


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[Nikki A.]

No, and never will unless I decide to transition and go full-time. Even then I probably would think long and hard before I did it.

[Amy Fakley]

I'm not out to anyone in real life, so absolutely no.
Anything you post anywhere on the internet is equivalent to making it public forever ... but facebook is a whole other level of out there.
Facebook is such a nice application, I love to use it ... I'd thought for a while about setting up a separate account for Ms Fakely, but ... facial recognition works really really well on facebook. The only reason they don't make a bigger deal out of it in marketing, etc, is that they don't want to freak people out, but that won't last forever .

be careful on facebook unless you just don't care who the hell knows :-)

[Jana]

I'm only out to my wife, and I want to keep it that way for the time being. Hence, I don't post pics of me dressed anywhere. Not even here.

[Stephanie47]

A secret is best kept to one person-myself! If you are totally out that is totally different than keeping your lifestyle limited to a 'need to know' basis. Once something is posted on social media, you cannot prevent people from sharing your secrets with anyone they choose, either electronically or blabbing with the lips.

You also brought up the subject of the wife. Before posting such pictures you may want to discuss it with your wife..If you do get approval, then post pictures that are absent any recognizable features of your home and interior.

[Beverley Sims]

I do not use social networking sites at all. They can be extremely invasive.
My only advice to you is include your wife in any activities outside the home.
Do not jeopardise any arrangement with her by being deceitful.

[Angela Campbell]

Not only no....but HELL NO! I will not go on facebook anymore at all much less spill the beans about my most personal part of my life. The privacy settings are a joke there do not put any faith in them at all.

[TGMarla]

No. Not on Facebook. No way. I only have the Flickr page, and what I do here. That's all.

[Lorileah]

but ... facial recognition works really really well on facebook.

and yet I have posted picture sin both modes and when it asks about tagging me, it has never even connected the two...it has asked if I was someone else on my friends list (more than once).

Posting photos is personal, no one should if they don't want to post. But the fears are questionable. You know that if you go out at all there are cameras everywhere who have recorded you. So unless you are 100% never ever go out of the house, your picture is in some archives somewhere. I don't worry about such things. I will bet that sometime somewhere someone has used my picture to get a date on Craig's List or similar.

My generation had a song "Paranoia strikes deep, into your mind it will creep, starts when your always afraid..." If you post photos here, you are "out" (remember you don't have to be a member to see most of this site)

[Amy Fakley]

My generation had a song "Paranoia strikes deep, into your mind it will creep, starts when your always afraid..."

Ain't that the truth :-)

[MsRenee]

I dont post anything on my facebook. employers these days have access to everything for a back ground check and I dont like to let ppl who dont know me know my private life If I want them to know I will tell them in person. Some ppl just put too much stuff on their page to let us all know they woke up or went to bed. Realy. just wanna tell them to get out side and do something productive .
Renee

[Kate Simmons]

Only on my FB femme account. Most of my friends on that are TG anyway, so any worry is moot. Many of them also know my guy side. At this stage in my life I have little to lose really and there isn't much they can do to me. What one chooses to share and the extent is always a choice anyway.:battingeyelashes::)

[Annaliese]

Yes I have a FB account for Annaliese but I do not connect it to any of my male life. Same with my fem e-mail and my male e-mail they are not connect. Don't even use the same browser for them.

[melanie206]

I have a facebook page with one picture and very little personal info and I don't too much there. But I have done a lot of searching on google as well as from my drab facebook account for any result that includes my fem identity and so far so good. You have to be very aware of the functions of browsers and social sites. I use one browser for Melanie and another for normal ( sorry ) stuff and never violate the barrier. Also, we are constantly invited to log on to, say, facebook with our yahoo or other accounts. That automatically creates a lot of associations between identities that you might want to avoid. The question we might want to ponder is how likely is it that wrong person is going to make effort to find crossdressers and stumble upon you or I.
Melanie

[NathalieX66]

I did it about three times. It was a great way to come out to friends. I'm glad I did it.

It's also playing with fire.....be careful to whom you out yourself to. These things are hard for people to forget.

[darla_g]

solved that problem! no FB

[ReineD]

Is the world a better place after you've posted a picture of a kitten? Or if you share vacation shots with people who don't know you? Expiring minds want to know-Celeste

I've moved around a lot and I use facebook to reconnect with family and friends from the past, and family that I've not even met such as my cousins' kids who are all young adult now and pretty cool people. I use it to post milestones in my own life (graduations, etc ... everyone likes to show off their kids :)), and I also use it to spread news that I consider is good news, such as the biofuel they are currently developing in Spain that kills two birds with one stone since it harnesses the CO2 from neighboring manufacturing facilities, thus preventing it's release into our atmosphere. I posted a video in the Media section here recently about random acts of kindness that I also posted on my facebook page, since I think everyone needs their faith in humanity restored occasionally. Most of my facebook friends post interesting social comment about a variety of things (mostly about the sometimes absurd world we live in and the need for change in some areas), and I enjoy reading and commenting on those.

If I were a CDer, I would not use facebook to post pics of myself though. I'd just establish a profile on Flickr.

[Kaz]

Difficult one. I so want Kaz to have a 'presence'... My facebook account is all about my band and a certain side of my life. Linked in is for my professional world. I have set up a facebook account for Kaz, but I am just not into it... I am not a social media person...so I just don't go there... maybe I should... I am not smart phone enabled... so for me the internet is laptop and desktop... not phone...

I just forget to login to these things...

Kaz xx

[Sarah Doepner]

I've taken the plunge and once I was sure there wasn't cross-contamination between my Sarah Facebook account through Safari and my Dave Facebook account through Google, I do what I want. I acknowledge there is the possibilty of someone linking the two one of these days and I really don't care. While I'm not pursuing the option of coming out to friends and family, I do know that Social Security and the Retirement system won't do anything to my income if they discover I crossdress. So yes, I do have photos out there as well.

[PretzelGirl]

I have always thought that Facebook is safe enough if you understand what you are doing with it (just my personal feelings). I don't have cross contamination. I haven't had my picture flagged even though I feel there isn't that much difference between my him and her as far as my face and hair go. Mine has been going for about 3 years without incident. But in the end, each person has to do what they are comfortable with, so I understand those that don't want to participate. But I keep a lot of good friendships on there, so you can't talk me out of it right now.

[Jessica Who]

Yes, I have lots of photos on my public Facebook fan page :)

[christean]

Flikr account for me as well not on facebook, not fully out

[FaithGrace]

I am still not completely "out" yet. So, my public, male, self has his fb page and my female, Faith Grace, has her fb page with her own select group of understanding, accepting, non-judgmental friends.

[HannahF6]

I have two Facebook pages, one male and the other female and both have photos on them. I do not believe they can be linked. If anyone wants to try and find both, please feel free to try but let me know the results.

Hannah

[paulinescotlandcd]

If I were a CDer, I would not use facebook to post pics of myself though. I'd just establish a profile on Flickr.

Yes, i have photographs on Facebook and i also have a Flickr account plus a Photobucket account. I am now up to my free limit on Flickr of 200 so I post new pictures on Facebook and Photobucket. I would prefer them on these accounts etc rather than on my PC.

[StephanieDragg]

Yes, you can look me up on facebook, at this point in my life not really worried about who see's it, I guess my answer would be.... so you came across my fb page while looking for guys dressed as gurls?

[CamillaCD]

I have one Facebook account. The profile picture is of me in drab, but most of the pictures are of Camilla. They can be seen by friends only though. I am not saying that this should be the norm, but as I am out to everybody I don't see much harm in it.

[tifftg]

I have both a Facebook account for Tiffany with photos and a totally separate Facebook account for my drab side. No photos as a boy and the two sides don't friend each other. I also have a Flickr account to store photos rather than keeping them on the pc. I have used Facebook for years and in my opinion you have good strong control of what people outside your circle of friends can see. It is a good way to stay connected with friends and cd resources that aren't on this site. I will say that this site is the more valuable in terms of information and support.

[~Joanne~]

I also have a Flickr account to store photos rather than keeping them on the pc.

I use a 8 GB scandisk USB pen drive to store all my pictures. It's pass word secure and small enough to be hidden anywhere. To me this is the safest way to store pictures from prying eyes ;)

[tifftg]

I am sold on the benefit of storing in the cloud. That way I can access from whatever device, iPad, iPhone, laptop whatever. Like Miss Joanne, I do have a password protected USB but some devices don't have ports

[Eryn]

Tiff, why do you think that those devices don't have ports? Why, to force you to use their cloud services, of course!

The simple solution is to use only devices that allow you flexible access to your data, in whatever form you desire. That's not difficult unless you are really hung up on having partially eaten fruit on your device!

[CDValerie80]

I've been wanting to put some pics in albums but have been wondering, what would be a good site to use?
Picasa
Photobucket
Flickr
Other sites??

Of the people who do have pics online, what is the best?

Thanks!
Valerie

[sometimes_miss]

Absolutely not. Anything you post online is there forever, so unless you want to be 'out' to the world forever, putting pictures there isn't a good idea. For anyone who isn't out yet, it's more of a desperate move to hope to be accepted that way. I suppose initially, there probably won't be any adverse effects, but over time that can change.

[Christa]

After very carefully checking my account settings, I opened a "Christa" facebook account. I use a separate browser app just for my Christa stuff... which helps to insulate me from my boy side better.

Stop by and say hello!

http://www.facebook.com/christa.karpenter

[Marlana]

I agree. Never put anything on FB. Perspective employers have people that find stuff there.

[Ayame]

Yes I have two facebooks, one for people close to me in real life, and one for people I dont know well. I post pics of me dressed fem in both of them. The way I look at it, is if it upsets someone I will just delete them, I don't really care who I upset, I refuse to waste my life living a lie. If it bothers family, friends, acquaintances, workers I just don't care. Like there are lots of people and jobs that are highly accepting of crossdressers and transfolk, and I understand some people are stuck in a lose lose situation. But if you havent already chained yourself to responsibility by waiting too long, I urge you to go find people that will love you for you.

[MelissaL]

I have my account and his account, the only pics of me on his account are the cliche halloween pics. I just set up my account so there is not a lot in it at the moment. I do have pics up on my G+ account which works out better for me. While I am not out 100% to everyone, I am not overly concerned with it, tired of not being myself, my parents and some of my co-workers would present the only issues.

AS was previously mentioned, yes if you put it online its there, even if you take it down it could still be out there on some one else's machine or site, if you dont like that possibility then dont post things up to the social networking sites. Everyone has their own ideas of how much or how little they want to share of themselves (in either gender).-Lissa

[thechic]

I have a couple of pics on FB found it the Best way to comunicate with distant friends,I dont care who sees it as im out there anyway,in the public as a woman,nothing to hide.

[RedBaron]

I have no problem posting on FB. I go out in skirts every day, and many of my friends on FB have never seen me in pants.

[I Am Paula]

I'm seeing tons of responses about security on facebook. My biggest question is, What's the point of facebook? I read my page(I don't post on my own page, i don't really know why I have it) and others, and all I see is blah...blah...blah, picture of poodle, blah...blah.... To me it seems like a giant step backward in communication. Let's see if we can come up with the next big thing in human interaction- let's TALK.-Celeste