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Originally Posted by Des-Lab
Is it seen as a form of self boasting/narcissism? Does it make poaching said picture more difficult? Plain old envy and resentment and not acknowledging a picture is seen as a passive aggressive form of rejection?
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I'm not implying that you're one of these people, but it looks that way to those who aren't creative, and don't have anything for someone else to claim as their own, and who might claim someone else's work as their own.
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I see this on Facebook all the time. Some of the groups I post in, the entire groups are propped up on people stealing other peoples work from Google and other online databases.
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You see that because most of what you see on Facebook isn't original content. It comes from somewhere else. Most memes and other nonsense get shared like needles and groupies backstage at a Motley Crue show, and nobody cares who made it. Which kind of ties into...
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The picture is what we like. Couldn't give a rats a$$ about the person that took it.
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And this mentality is why people steal the work of others. This is a case where "we" doesn't mean me. Although you put it in a way that comes across that this isn't your personal position, more the position of the majority of people in your observation.
To be clear, I mainly have the notice up here to establish that the photos I hotlink to are mine, in accordance with city-data's terms of service.