Cautious About Posting Your Pictures Online

BBW dating photo privacy

While social media websites have certainly made it easier for people to share their personal moments, it has also exposed them to a new threat called identity theft. As the name suggests, images of people are stolen and used for various purposes. Cyber criminals have come up with various techniques, including morphing, to misuse these images collected from various social networking websites.

How can your photos be misused?

Not many people realize this but photos can easily be stolen from social media sites with the click of the mouse. Thanks to the inception of various tools, these images can then be morphed and uploaded on various pornographic and adult sites. While uploading of images on porn sites is a grace offence, you may find a lot of non-genuine profiles on social media websites bearing the same profile picture.

Adult websites may use your photos

While most men wish to date a skinny woman, the trends say otherwise. According to statistics, MILF and BBW are the two most popular segments on these websites. This shows men secretly admire chubby women and wish to date them. In order to maintain a steady supply of these materials, scammers take to social media websites to accumulate pictures of BBWs. So, if you're a plus sized woman, think twice before uploading your pictures online.

How are dating sites dealing with this?

There are a lot of specialist BBW dating sites on the market. So, you might be wondering as to how these websites manage to protect sensitive information shared by users. Pictures play a key role in the process of dating and give users a clear idea of how you look in real. This is a simple alternative to the need of meeting the person in real. This is how BBW dating sites give users complete control of the data they share:

·Users can hide their pictures from standard / free users.
·They can maintain photo albums and give access to people they like.
·Hide their profile from search listings so that their information isn't accessible to any other user.

Beware of non – genuine dating sites

Let’s accept the fact that not every website out of over 5000 dating sites on the market is genuine and delivers exactly as promised. While leading BBW dating sites make money from memberships, others that barely have any active user base tend to use negative practices to generate revenue. One such practice is selling or sharing of sensitive user information. This practice puts personal information of users such as bank account / credit card information as well as other personally – identifiable information at stake.

Therefore, it is advised you check out reviews of some of the leading BBW dating sites available on the market prior to making any commitment.

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