# How I (don't) use Facebook images

[[!meta date="2012-10-21"]]
[[!tag img fb blog editorial]]

Dear Facebook friend,

I like you and I am happy that you take/tag/share photos of me, just not
on Facebook!

I have a Facebook account but [[don't hang out there|msg/facebook]].

Please share your photos in public, not (only) inside Facebook. And
please consider allowing Free reuse of your photos, by licensing them
with a Free license like [CC-BY-SA][] or [CC0][].

[CC-BY-SA]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
  "Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike"

[CC0]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  "Creative Commons - Public Domain Dedication"

## Here & Now

My suggestion for now is to use Flickr, and license all images as
"Attribution, share alike".


## The Perfect Way

Ideally you would publish the photos on some server that you control,
like the [[Freedombox|/fb]], but those are unfortunately not yet easy to
find or use.

## Why not Facebook?

Facebook is a closed system: all activities happen at one central place.

Maybe you don't care who is spying on the photo gallery that you share.
That's fine - but please respect those of your friends who do care, by
putting a copy of your photos somewhere with less thirdparty control.

Regards, Jonas