Watermark your photos for putting online

One of my favorite sites, Lifehacker, recently reviewed two free applications for batch watermarking your photos. They reviewed one for Windows and another for Mac. Anyone who has read over the terms of service for popular social networking website Facebook.com knows that anything you post on to Facebook, such as photos or notes, automatically becomes the property of the website. By watermarking your photos, the site only owns the watermarked copy of the photos, which could have your name or company logo on them. This would prevent Facebook (or other websites such as Flickr) from using your pictures for promotional or other reasons. Hypothetically, since Facebook owns the photo, they could use other software to try and strip it of the watermark, but why would they want to bother when there are already millions of pictures of drunk people on their site?

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