Reply to "To Watermark or Not To Watermark?"

I watermark my pictures.  A couple of reasons;  one as Jaci said, people love to steal photos and use them as their own.  Also, last year Instagram stated that any photos posted on their social media site are theirs to use.  I figured, go ahead, but you'll have my watermark on them!  Beware of the 'fine print' on social media sites that NONE of us read ... they often give themselves rights to anything you post, which we all agree too, because not only are we too lazy to read their rules and regulations, it's usually too small for me to see!  So I just 'accept'!.   Also, I used to put it through the center but didn't like doing that, so I now put it in the corner but I cover part of the photo with the watermark ... in my own mind I know that they'll have to cut off part of the photo to get rid of it.  I also took Susan Schmitt's (The Painted Cookie) advise, and started using my website as my watermark, not just my name.