This statement is very controversial, which means it is kind of hard for me to decide. There are two sides to every argument, and I can see where both are coming from.
On one hand, I think that if you post something on the internet, and make it visible to the public, then you shouldn't care if people use it or not. But on the other hand, I would feel totally weird and "creeped out" if someone used a random profile picture of me for anything. So I guess that my happy medium is that I believe it is okay to use someone's picture if it is not personal, and if it would make sense to the owner of the picture, and to the person using it, why it was being used.
THIS is an okay picture to use, because someone obviously took it so that other people would see it and show it to their friends. But make sure that the owner is okay with it before you use it.
Something like this (a profile picture, or a personal picture) is not acceptable to use. There is no justifiable reason to use a random person's personal picture, especially if you don't know them. If you do know them, and they're okay with it, then that's a little bit more reasonable.
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