Is it fair to upload pictures of your kids to Facebook?

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...fair on your kids when they grow up that is.

I was just looking at a friend's pictures of his kids and realised that years from now we'll have our first generation of young adults that will have their entire childhood captured and logged on Facebook.

Gone will be the days of bringing your new partner to meet you parents and the embarrassing photo albums with you as a kid come out, they just have to make friends with your parents and they'll be all there to see, from birth to first day at school to last day at school.

For the most of us, our childhood pics are safely stored away with limited access, that won't be true for your kids when they grow up.
 
I do not allow pictures of my children to be placed online under any circumstances by anyone, its that simple.

I feel like at the end of the day it should be a choice they make themselfs once they are old enough to do so, its not for me or anyone else to put them in the public domain.
 
What kind of pictures would you put on there? Surely none of the proper embarrassing stuff would be on there.

I don't see an issue with somethings going on there, we have holiday snaps on there.

The thing I could see problems being is (like someone I know has done) creating your newborn child Twitter & Facebook accounts. That is weird.
 
AH.Tempest said:
I do not allow pictures of my children to be placed online under any circumstances by anyone, its that simple.

I feel like at the end of the day it should be a choice they make themselfs once they are old enough to do so, its not for me or anyone else to put them in the public domain.
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i strongly agree
 
AH.Tempest said:
I do not allow pictures of my children to be placed online under any circumstances by anyone, its that simple.

I feel like at the end of the day it should be a choice they make themselves once they are old enough to do so, its not for me or anyone else to put them in the public domain.
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Couldn't agree more with your comments.
 
My Facebook account is private and only friends or family can see my pictures. I put photos of my son on there sometimes as I have relatives abroad that like to see him.

He also has a gmail account I set up for him where I mail him things that we've done along with photos so he can read it back when he's older. :)
 
Where's the problem?

Assuming the parents putting pictures on there have the knowledge to be able to set privacy settings so only friends can see the pictures I fail to see the problem because those friends will have seen the kids grow up, many in those pictures at the time anyway.

Obviously there's a line to be drawn (your kids in the bath etc) but that's part of common sense.

End of the day it's the parent's choice, some will, some won't. /thread?
 
Depends what permissions you give the albums.

Lets say you have relatives living far away, parents or a brother/sister in another country. You don't see them very often so it is nice to share the photos and Facebook gives you an easy way to share and comment on the photo over a medium that is popular/common.

What you're probably talking about is making them viewable either publically (which really no one should be doing with any photos) , Friends of Friends or at least viewable by Friends of that account only, which is where you need to have an understanding of the Friends added.

Everyone has embarrasing photos from when they were kids, it is only embarrasing up to a certain age.

edit: seems some others had the same idea.

- Only other factor to consider is Facebook's (and Apps/Partners) use of the data but that is made fairly clear and also has loads of options to turn off what they can use/access.
 
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mrk said:
Where's the problem?

Assuming the parents putting pictures on there have the knowledge to be able to set privacy settings so only friends can see the pictures I fail to see the problem because those friends will have seen the kids grow up, many in those pictures at the time anyway.

Obviously there's a line to be drawn (your kids in the bath etc) but that's part of common sense.

End of the day it's the parent's choice, some will, some won't. /thread?
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This pretty much.

My sister lives in Spain so FB is a great way of seeing photos of my 2 neices. She doesn't put many up and they are set to private for friends and family. No issues IMO.
 
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Never mind pics of kids, I object to pictures of me being put on FB. I'm not on there and people do it.

Can't really say anything about it, else I'll get stick for challenging it.
 
Cuchulain said:
Has nobody ever heard of Facebook privacy settings? What a complete non-issue!
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Yes but who in reality only has their actual friends on there?

On my Facebook I have 100s of 'friends' yet I don't regularly see, converse or really 'know' 90% of them anymore. Old work collegaues, people I went to Uni with, people I've met on one night out and never spoken to again etc.

Yes you can set up groups and only allow people in those groups to see certain pictures but I suspect the majority aren't that Facebook literate.

Spuj1988 said:
My sister lives in Spain so FB is a great way of seeing photos of my 2 neices.
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Surely e-mail would be a better solution?
 
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