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

gregster said:
I am very proud of my 2 girls aged 16 and 20 and will happily post pics of them on FB :)
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Which is different as they are both old enough to decide whether they want those photos on there. If in 10 years time your then 26 year old had a pop for a picture on your FB when she was 16 you can say "you didn't say anything at the time".

That's different to uploading pictures of children under 12 who probably have no idea your uploading them or what it means.
 
estebanrey said:
Which is different as they are both old enough to decide whether they want those photos on there. If in 10 years time your then 26 year old had a pop for a picture on your FB when she was 16 you can say "you didn't say anything at the time".

That's different to uploading pictures of children under 12 who probably have no idea your uploading them or what it means.
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Fair point but still I would and would then take the flack when they are older. If it annoyed them, I would just remove them.
 
My Facebook is locked down so only Family and close Friends can see anything.

People who I just happened to know from school or work can't see anything and strangers can see even less.

My sister has her Facebook set up the same way and has no issues posting pictures of my niece.

The only people who can see those pictures are people who she'd want to see them anyway. No harm done.
She's only 4 months old though, so a bit different maybe.
 
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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Kind of over zealous there! If you are sensible then all your photos are on lock down anyway.
 
AH.Tempest said:
I do not allow pictures of my children to be placed online under any circumstances by anyone, its that simple.
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How do you deal with school events and activities/hobbies that your children take part in? Let me give some examples:

1: A child attends a football tournament and pictures are taken of the team and placed online. Your child was in a public place and a picture was taken innocently by another parent as they wanted one of the whole team.

2: Your daughter attends a brownies day out and the same thing as above occurs, where someone hosts a pic of the whole "pac".

3: Same again but school play and your kids mug is caught in the background of another shot.

etc etc
you could go on forever.

I have personally seen certain events where if just ONE parent makes an issue of their child having pictures taken, professional photographers have had to be cancelled or sent away. They would rather do that than jump through the hoops/hassle of sifting through photographs of said child that must not be photo'd and/or the photographer given direct instruction to not photo child X based on facial recognition by the photographer.

I'm simply pointing out here, that it's not always practical. I don't like it either, knowing there are pics of my kids online, some of which get "tagged", and are out of my control, but in this modern era it's going to happen frankly.
 
I asked for no photos of my wedding to be put onto FB, so one of my cousins put up photos but set it so I could not see the album.

I was not pleased at all!
 
estebanrey said:
Which is different as they are both old enough to decide whether they want those photos on there. If in 10 years time your then 26 year old had a pop for a picture on your FB when she was 16 you can say "you didn't say anything at the time".

That's different to uploading pictures of children under 12 who probably have no idea your uploading them or what it means.
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I went to a very rough school, some of my peers are already on their 3rd kid and its all they have in the world, they upload every single picture and every status is about how their kid is hungry today or how it has grown a new hair on its head.

These people do not understand how to use facebooks privacy settings so yes, this will be an issue for their kids in the future.
 
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 think that's a ludicrous attitude. It's completely harmless.
 
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