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

mrk · 16 Jul 2012 at 12:58

Skidder said:
I'm 37 and I spend everyday in fear that my friends and colleagues will pictorially ascertain that I was once 5.

I wore TMN Turtles jumpers, pink shell suits (damn you, Mother!) and had a walkman bigger than my head!

If anything, I laugh at such pictures more than anyone else. It's all part of life

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.

Then you're part of the problem you're proposing. Instead of complaining about the faults of others uploading photos others might see, you yourself are showing lack of acknowledgement to your own problem!

Delete those people > Problem solved.

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:00

mrk said:
I wore TMN Turtles jumpers, pink shell suits (damn you, Mother!) and had a walkman bigger than my head!

If anything, I laugh at such pictures more than anyone else. It's all part of life

Maybe you could share them with us so that we can also have a big laugh. As you said, it's all part of life.

mrk · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:02

simulatorman said:
Maybe you could share them with us so that we can also have a big laugh. As you said, it's all part of life.

There's one floating around here somewhere

SuperCrofty · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:02

Skidder said:
I'm 37 and I spend everyday in fear that my friends and colleagues will pictorially ascertain that I was once 5.

Eloquently put

Spuj · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:05

estebanrey said:
Surely e-mail would be a better solution?

If you are worried about security/privacy then yes it would be, and this is how I used to get pictures of them. However my sister started a FB account not long ago and prefers it as she finds it easier. Her friends on FB are only either family (both sides) and a few friends from when she lived in the UK who now have kids of there own etc.

Septym · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:05

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.

How are you going to control your children's friends putting pictures of them on facebook then?

Cuchulain · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:05

estebanrey said:
Yes but who in reality only has their actual friends on there?

Probably the people who put pictures of their kids on facebook, me for example.

cwhitehead · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:05

Silly thread privacy settings for one and number two, how often did we have photos flashed in front of us as kids?!? "this is you being bathed in a bucket...ho and this is you running round naked with a yoghurt!

Its history something for parents to remeber their kids by and show them later on in their life, online or hardcopy it make no differance except its moved on with time.

Cosimo · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:07

mrk said:
There's one floating around here somewhere

One isn't good enough really. We want to see your whole childhood but of course it might be all just too embarrassing for you.

nst68 · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:08

Depends on how much you want to embarrass them

cm1179 · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:09

parents living their life through facebook.

Draeger · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:10

It's a non issue, really.

estebanrey · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:12

Draeger said:
It's a non issue, really.

In other words you upload pictures to FB and couldn't care less how your child might feel about that in the future.

DA

Draeger · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:19

What part of my post said I 'couldn't care less' about how my child may feel in the future?.

What a bizarre comment to make.

Raumarik · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:22

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.

I can understand this for kids over say 8 or 9 but toddlers? My daughter is under 2 and I don't see a problem with it, however that'll change as she gets older. Personally I think you're stance is rather alarmist.

krooton · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:43

estebanrey said:
In other words you upload pictures to FB and couldn't care less how your child might feel about that in the future.

DA

I'd raise them in the same way I was raised, not to give an eff about what other people think.

Zenduri · 16 Jul 2012 at 13:55

Half the people who upload these photos tend not to have the permissions set right so any old peado can have a gander. Plus anyone who has the time to snap pointless photos of timmy and a duck and upload them to facebook gor everyone to see needs to get a grip and get off facebook

danielanthony · 16 Jul 2012 at 15:05

Em3bbs said:
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.

+1

That is one of the positive things about Facebook IMO, you can post pictures that your friends and family would be interested in seeing e.g. your kids.

The problem starts when you add people you barely know in which case you should set up groups so that such pictures are only seen by those who you actually want to see.

tribz · 16 Jul 2012 at 15:16

Wont someone think of the children!

spankingtexan · 16 Jul 2012 at 15:25

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.

+1