Believe me miss halo, I'm a Privacy Queen par excellence ... and as always, I learned through experience ... I know what people can see, how they can see it ... and what they can get access to even when you don't want em to.
I don't have a facebook in my name, or any other social media privacy invading app. I only know what it's okay to expose myself to (while maintaining my privacy at the same time) cause I got here (the i'net) early and saw it all develop around me.
I doubt such a person would feel the need to apologise to you miss halo (the one who broke your trust), if they're up for exploiting you they wont give a fuck about exploiting your openness to them. However, take comfort in the fact that you will still be uncompromised hugely to masses really ... the net is a huge place ... and as you say, that kind of exposure can be sort of liberating in a way ... it builds your resilience ... and in truth, altho it's a huge intrusion on your privacy, the rest of the world and potential audience wont really be interested in you because they don't know you. I know that might not neutralise the negatives and how the exposure made you feel, and what you felt because of the way you were violated, but it is the reality. If they target the people in your world, it's an entirely different thing tho.
I've had my own little exposures, but they always end up being a learning curve in their own way
Swedge: always use
imgur (unless you're using a private account like with photobucket) when uploading pics of any kind you may potentially want to take down at a later date. You get a delete code so you can delete and take it off their servers. So even if anyone quotes your post (with the URL of your pic at a later date), it doesn't matter if you've already deleted it from their server.
Most ISPs also give you a bit of webspace to upload your files to ... which you also can use and have complete control over (well, in theory .. it can't be used by anyone but you) ... you can delete the content you upload anytime you want tho, which leaves most things (like picture uploads) in your control