The argument of whether social media applications should have access to your photos or not has been around for quite some time. Actually, it just comes with the usage social media itself. With Twitter and Instagram, where you post the content to the whole community, you give everyone access to your posts. The only way around this is the selection of protecting your content, or making it private.

The thing that makes this questionable is that private or not, the producers and workers of these apps have access to what you post. Regardless of what you believe, it all comes back to when you pressed that button that said “Agree to Terms and Conditions”.

The point of the terms and conditions is to outline every detail so that the user of the app can have a thorough understanding of what they are getting into.

Yes they are long, but if you truly are concerned with your privacy that much, I would suggest reading up.

For example, the social media application Snapchat uses photos as a method of communication between people. You can post things to your story, allowing all your friends to see what you are up to. You can also have private conversations with people by sending captioned photos back and forth.

The people who work for Snapchat have full access to what you send and post on your story. This is in the terms and conditions, yet people still feel uncomfortable. At the end of the day, there are millions of photos being sent back and forth on this app. I doubt Snapchat employees are picking apart every single photo being sent, let alone one individual’s.

The access is to insure the safety of others and make sure everyone is following the law.

Snapchat is no stranger to the transfer of nude photography, and in many cases underage nude photography. There are other applications out there to save the time-limited photos straight to someone’s camera roll.

That means that if someone is trying to send a second long nude photo, it can end up giving them a lifetime of regret. The best way to overcome the fear of social media having access to your content is to not send and post regrettable things.

Always be careful what you share because there’s always a way for it to get around. It’s not the app’s employees you should be worrying about, they’re just doing their job to insure the best social media environment possible.

Social media apps should not have the right to use your photos. People have been letting social media apps use their photos without being completely aware. Most people are too lazy or may not understand when reading the Terms and Conditions.

Shortening the Terms and Conditions would possibly increase the number of people that read it. It also may be hard for language learners to fully understand and comprehend.

Since most people do not realize that social media apps have the rights to use their photos, they do not realize that more people have the ability to see it.

People that do not know the rights could end up in trouble. People make mistakes and may not realize what is in the background of their photos.

For example, if someone takes a selfie and there’s something unwanted in the background, the app now has rights to the photo. It cannot be deleted, the app will always have it.

Also, if another person uses an account that is not theirs, they did not agree to the apps having access to photos of them. If people knew what they were agreeing to, they would rethink what they take photos of. This limits the freedom of the app user because they might have photos they only want certain people to see.

Social media having access to photos takes away the right for you to decided whether or not you want your photos to be private or public. Such as, Instagram, you have the decision on whether or not they want their accounts to be public or private.

Most people want to be able to use the social media app but do not want to have to pay the price that comes with using the app. Other than the fact that it is an invasion of privacy, why does the apps want rights to your photos? No one except the owners of the social media apps know what is done with the photos.

People should at least know what their photos are being used for. The fact that people do not know just makes it even more questionable. There is no real need for a social media app to have the rights to use your photos.