If you are a "private" person and don't want your profile picture or name to appear on your friend's feed next to ads you liked, then follow this steps.
In Gmail there is no insert/upload image option by default. Let me show you how to enable the option so you can upload and insert an image into the email or insert an image by providing url.
Gmail predicts which emails might be of high importance to you so it marks them as important with a yellow icon. If your inbox ends up full of so called important emails, this is how you disable this feature.
If you don't want Google to store your chat history and the Google chat history of the person you are chatting with, you can take the chat off the record and this is how you do that.
Pixlr is a free and probably the best web based image editor. I will show you how to open and and resize an image, I'm sure you will be impressed how well the web app actually works.