I sure hope everyone clicks on this post, cuz I admit I don't have a witty, eyecatching subject line to entice you.
Soooooooo..... I know it has been discussed more than once; the what do you do when someone steals your photos thing. Well it finally happened to me. Yesterday I logged into my Myspace profile and found a private message from one of my friends. She wanted to give me a heads up that my pictures had shown up on a major industry message board and were being claimed as someone else's work. Well, since it happened to be the salongeek forums and I happen to know that's a pretty popular and legit site... I did, indeed, follow the link to see what was up. And low and behold! If two of my photos from my website of my work weren't posted in a thread on "show us your artistic flair" with the simple subject line, "just some nails I did last night...trainig still in progress." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well! I don't know if I'm more insulted that someone STOLE my work! Or by the implication that the nails were indicative of someone who is "still in training." Ok ok... so I have never posted over there before-- there are just only so many websites one can keep up with at a time! But I registered, quoted, and posted. Sorta took it tongue in cheek. Nothing too scathing. Just a gentle little "oh really? you did these WHEN?" type post. Almost immediately I got a pm from a moderator who saw the post and was asking what I wanted her to do about it. I thought it was pretty cool that she gave me the option of having the posts deleted or left up for all the world to see. I opted for making an example of the original poster. SOOOOOOOOOOO... today I revisit the thread and discover that the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@&#!!! (a hem, original poster, that is) has replied that SHE IS "MAGGIE!!!!!!!!" Ok... so now I am not just dealing with plagerism of my work, I seem to have some crazed obsessed fan who has just gone off the deep end and assumed my entire identity. I have since reported the post, notified the moderator, and gone crawling to Deb for personal advice. (it's not Deb's forum, she's not in charge, I don't even know if she KNOWS anyone on the other forums! But I trust that she knows how identity theft and plagerism work on the internet.) Well... Guess what I get to BLOG about next!!!!! LOL! Anyway... just sayin, anyone who wants to stand in my corner and vouch for the real me is welcome to do so. I'm feeling a little "weird" now... really? She says she IS me? I sure hope she really is in Texas. I'll be looking over my shoulder anyway. Maggie Franklin, Nail Lady Extraordinaire @ Attitudes Salon; Visalia, CA AS SEEN ON NAILS MAGAZINE ONLINE!! http://blogs.nailsmag.com/maggie/ AIM: Onykophile "A mentor is someone whose hindsight can become your foresight." http://www.nailsbymaggie.net http://www.myspace.com/nailsbymaggie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/NailTech?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
