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

Em3bbs said:
You're so cool and out there man.
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Assuming you're being sarcastic I find it very tragic that somebody who doesn't use facebook must therefore be attempting to be 'cool and out there' (to use your own words).

Personally I just think it's a **** website.

Dimple said:
Wow you are my hero but you've got nearly 18,000 posts on this social networking site so you fail hard.
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Why do I fail for not liking facebook but preferring a traditional forum? The two things are totally different.


Edit: (Also I never said I had anything against social networking, for the record).
 
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If the parent has the common-sense not to put up pictures anyone could use in/ or be viewed as portraying the child in a derogatory manner then there is no issue. common-sense combined with privacy settings covers every base.

For my older children who understand I do ask them if I can post pictures before I post them anywhere. Chloe my oldest is 16 and I would never embarrass her or my other children with a picture that was out of turn with the way they want to be seen publicly.

I think some people are malicious or just plain ignorant in posting some of the pictures of their own children that go on-line. They don't consider that a picture of a child taken in a fun family moment could be ammunition for a bully when that child gets to high-school, that or many other differing kinds of situation could arise.
 
Van Hellseek said:
Assuming you're being sarcastic I find it very tragic that somebody who doesn't use facebook must therefore be attempting to be 'cool and out there' (to use your own words).

Personally I just think it's a **** website.
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I don't use Facebook either, and people are funny with me when I say it - but I'm noticing it happens less and less now. There's far more people now who don't use it or who have stopped using it.

I found it made me dislike people, and I don't miss it.
 
Who is to say whether our children or indeed their associates will even be using Facebook in the future, could have been superseded by something else (not necessarily just another social networking website, there could be some different sort of network people use).

edit: I actually think more of a concern will be the prospect of our kids seeing stuff we've posted online when we are all older - you know, Mum's seemingly innocuous posts to some blokes wall who she ran off with five years later, drunken rants by Dad etc.
 
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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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Good point that id never thought of, good we don't plan to have kids :p
 
as has been said. this is a non-issue, people need to learn to use Facebook like they would any tool. there are privacy settings and controls to ensure the level of sharing you want.

The whole idea that information you put on Facebook with the correct settings is any different than sending them via e-mail is total monkey nuts
 
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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Would you ever show a photo album to friends? did they give permission for that?

Or how about putting pictures up at home where any visiting plumber or cleaner can see?

In many ways using online tools like Facebook are more protected than old traditional methods of using photographs. Unfortunately people are either too stupid or ignorant to understand what they are doing online
 
Van Hellseek said:
Assuming you're being sarcastic I find it very tragic that somebody who doesn't use facebook must therefore be attempting to be 'cool and out there' (to use your own words).

Personally I just think it's a **** website.
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Thanks for the info. Why do people who don't like Facebook feel the need to tell others this in every Facebook related thread? There are plenty of things I don't care about - guess what, I don't post in threads about them.
 
I might post pictures of my kids but would make private, have pictures of my nieces being outsmarted by the dog on mine but only family and close friends can see.

Also I'm surprised at you GD, no pictures of a certain bear after so many pages, bad gd, bad gd
 
Van Hellseek said:
I don't care about being better than facebook users. I honestly couldn't care less.

Has it really got to the point where anyone who doesn't conform to facebook deserves attacking? :confused:

Wow. Just... wow.
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No but you have come into a debate about Facebook just to tell us you don't use Facebook. I don't go to a church bible study just to tell everyone I am atheist.
 
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