The destination, Luz de Gas, which, if you can get over the power-tripping bouncers (just suck it up and roll your eyes), who treat the place like it is the Studio 54 of 2009, you will be rewarded with a cheesy Spanish and US/UK Pop dance playground once you step through the doors. If you get there before 1.30am, the Studio 54-ish-ness is still not in effect and you can breeze in quite easily. Luckily for us, we were with people with VIP passes, as I even tried to see if we could step in front of two guys standing before us, exploiting the fact I am female, but as caballerosidad (chivalry) is effectively dead here, the men just ignored me and continued to shove.

Once we got in, it was off to the dance floor, we spent a bit of time in the 'pit', but, nobody puts the Miniguide crew in the corner, so we headed up to center stage to dance (pogo, robot, etc..) in front of the masses. Of course, with the amount of people, the heat did get a bit overwhelming, as a person who even on a chilly day, perspires more than most -and here is where the debate comes- I was looking wilted. The magazine's director had taken his camera along with him, snapping shots during the night, and as we danced on the stage, he continued clicking away.

It wasn't until the following day, that upon opening Facebook and seeing pics were posted, I saw IT.....the pic of me on the stage, looking like what I would imagine ET to resemble after coming out of a sauna. There I was wiping perspiration from my face, with a kind of evil look and my co-worker beside me, also with an unattractive face on. I immediately emailed my boss and asked him to take the photo down, stating that it is Facebook pic posting etiquette to ask permission of photo subjects before posting pictures. After all, I don't need my boss's cousins, their neighbors, aunt Sally, the guy who repairs his scooter, etc.... seeing me at my worst. In the old days, when photos were developed at the shop, I would have taken that photo out of the envelope and would have slid it into a plastic sleeve of my photo album, behind other, more attractive photos of myself and others, never allowing it to see the light, let alone viewed by the whole web world!

I usually review images before posting them on the web, and have learned to ask subjects -after a friend was none to happy with a photo of her I posted on my page- if they are ok with me posting the image, of course, sometimes I forget, but I think I have a general sense of what they would agree to me posting and what they wouldn't. My boss did ask another member of the party about posting pics from the Luz de Gas dance-a-thon and she seemed to think that photo subjects needing to give photo posting 'permission' was excessive and unnecessary.

So, what we are trying to find out here is, do the subjects of photos you want to post on FB, or any other Internet social network need to give their permission before posting? Is it necessary? Being prissy? What? I am sticking to my guns and think that either the photographer needs to have good judgment (not posting ET-looking images for instance) or, if in doubt, then yes, ask the photo subject for permission before letting the infinite Internet world get a look.