What is allowed in your private photos and not allowed
The same rules apply to private photos and they do to public photos
@lucky1962 Why do you ask?
~ Sunset Snuggles
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So what’s the point of private photos? lol
@mariacoss39 Pro's are required to show their faces, but some enthusiasts don't feel comfortable sharing their photo on their profile, so having Friends Only or Private photos allows them to easily share them at will, without having to individually upload them in PM's.
You can tell if someone has them by the lock symbol on their profile picture.
Some people use Friends Only photos to attempt to entice users to send friend requests. 🙄
Private photos apparently allow you to pick and choose exactly which individuals you share them with.
But all photos need to be fully clothed and follow the ToS.
deletes private photos
kidding......
(mostly)
So what’s the point of private photos?
I use the Private photo folder to store my seasonal blobfish photos when not in use.
Why would someone use Friends Only photos to try to get people to send friend requests? smh What is the point?
@achetocuddle A misguided sense of popularity, I assume.
I've seen a handful of Pro's dangle it like a carrot in their profile, addressing it directly and telling people they can unlock more photos if they send a friend request.
What's sad is it doesn't prove anything except likely the number of people hoping to gawk at more salacious pictures under the "lock". 🤮
I've never even noticed the lockable feature.
I didn’t know this was even a feature on this site.
I'm making an educated guess here, nothing more - I might surmise that a newer pro would want to expand her friends list as much as possible in order to appear more reputable to prospective client.
@SunsetSnuggles Maybe. I do sometimes forget that what pros are trying to do would sometimes be different from what some enthusiasts are trying to do. It makes sense for a pro to consider doing that. I was thinking more about how odd it would be for an enthusiast to do that. There again, each enthusiast might be very different from another.
@Jubal That's true and that would be a good idea. That makes a lot of sense. I don't think many pros would be doing that so their clients could unlock salacious pics. I've hardly read any pro profiles, but I have a good impression of pros as a group.
I noticed that in addition to regular profile photos, one can have friends-only and private which you have to actively share.
I have been thinking if putting some of my pro wrestling and grappling photos under friends or private. None of them violate the TOS, but some of them are older and I look different now and don't want people thinking they are seeing a current photo when actually it is a pic from quite a while ago, but in general people telling me they enjoy seeing them.
I think @TxTom has a good idea of using Private to store recurring pictured he uses but not all the time.
@achetocuddle: Yes, I could see pros using Friend Photos as a way to get people to friend them, and I think it is a good idea. That occurred to me when I saw them too. I could also see where it could be good as a pro to occasionally add and switch out Friend Photos as an added benefit for people remaining friends, who like photos.
@HarleyGirlKate you were a wrestler?! What was your finishing move?! Who trained you and what territory did you wrestle in?
@TxTom 😂
This is interesting and a whole lot more thinking about profile pics than I've ever done. Like I told @SuperManCuddles one time, I just wanted to make sure people knew exactly what they were getting, Lol.
@HarleyGirlKate A good point you make about considering the best place to put older pics or whether to use them. Your wrestling pics are interesting and since you have been getting good feedback I would probably include them if I were you. And it's thoughtful to not want to give people the idea that they are current Also, I think changing up pics would be good for business and possibly help enthusiasts to a lesser extent? I'm not very visual so I really don't know.
@lonelytauros wtote: @HarleyGirlKate you were a wrestler?! What was your finishing move?! Who trained you and what territory did you wrestle in?
Most often a Tombstone Piledriver or later on a Death Valley Driver. I was originally trained as a wrestler by Walter "Killer" Kowalski, and although I've wrestled all over the US and Canada and a little overseas, mainly I wrestled in the northeastern US.
I started out as a valet-manager for quite a few years before I wrestled. I learned a lot about being a manager just by talking to people backstage at shows, and I turned the corner on that when I was fortunate enough to travel for a few weeks with Sherri Martel, who was extremely generous to me with her vast knowledge about managing.
The territories were almost gone as a real force by the time I was coming into the business. I missed that by a few years, but I heard lots of stories when I traveled for a few years with Tony Atlas. But that said, I did have the good fortune to hold the NWA New England women's title for a short time, so that was cool. As a heel (villain) I have held a lot of pro titles but except for a couple never for very long. OTOH, what I lacked in length of reign I often made up in volume...
"Introducing the former and twelve-time champion ..." I was the kind of girl people liked to see lose. 🤣
@achetocuddle: I'm not super visual either; I am more of an in-person type, which has tended to fuel my interest in doing things I like, such as wrestling, rather than watching. But one thing that wrestling has taught me is that a lot of people are visual. Plus it is fun to share bits of my past if I think people might be interested and I still occasionally pop up at pro wrestling shows and still train hard for grappling so once in a while I might have something current to share.
I think that changing up photos from time to time might be good either as a pro or an enthusiast actively looking to meet potential cuddlers.
Yes. I agree, I'm going to put some of my favorites under Friends soon.
@achetocuddle Laughing at your use of the word "salacious", as I was just watching the scene in Return of the Jedi where R2D2 shocks Salacious Crumb off of C3PO
@HarleyGirlKate that is so cool I’m actually a huge wrestling fan. I watch both AEW and WWE and every once in a while TNA.
@lonelytauros: Nice! One of my good friends, who manages a little in the indies, is a big AEW fan. I have to say my favorite promotion to watch is New Japan.
@Jubal Lol. That sounds funny and I don't remember that part, but r2d2 and c3po were great characters.
@TxTom Excellent use of private photo folder btw, lol.
Dear Op, I hope your question got answered. I wasn't sure how to respond since your question was kinda general. Plus my memory is not the best and I might have mis-speak. I'd say err on the side of caution no matter what anyone else does.
@achetocuddle I'll PM you a recent example of a Pro dangling the "add me as a friend for more photos" carrot. 🥕
I think the idea is the tease; I don't believe many established Pro's would be foolish enough to actually have ToS-breaking photos in the Friends Only section...
Though I mean...I came across a guy in nothing but a thong a few days ago, so anything is possible. 🫣😬😅
When people ask me why the private photos, I just flat out tell them I do it all for the nookie
I'm a real life Nookie Wookie