Pics online of your kids

[Mrs Muttleysnoop]

Why, oh why do people use Facebook???

Just email pictures to your real friends.

[Shaolin]

Mrs Muttleysnoop said:

Why, oh why do people use Facebook???

Just email pictures to your real friends.

I think that's where this thread started.

[jshell]

Sheepshanks said:

I was quite surprised that several of the kids (these are around 3yrs old) had their full name tagged to the picture.

Why? In case some paedo looks them up in the phonebook and drops round for some peedling? I genuinely don't understand the issue.

[Mrs Muttleysnoop]

Shaolin said:

Mrs Muttleysnoop said:

Why, oh why do people use Facebook???

Just email pictures to your real friends.

I think that's where this thread started.

Yes I did read the OP's post!!!!

Facebook, oh dear!!!!

ETA - Why do so called friends then post their friend's pictures up???

Edited by Mrs Muttleysnoop on Tuesday 25th November 19:15

[surveyor]

I would not go out of my way to post pics. On occasions we've posted pictured of daughter + friend - usually shared with other kids parents.

Facebook is quite a good way for families to keep in touch. I for instance don't know my aunts/uncles/cousins email addresses.

As in every way don't go overboard and facebook is just fine.

[schmalex]

There are no circumstances under which I would allow someone (other than my wife or immediate family) post a picture of my son online. His friend's parents have put pictures of him and their children on Facebook in the past and I have insisted that they are removed immediately.

It's weird, as I'm not over protective of him at all, but the internet is a very scary place and many people have not the first inkling of security.

[Troubleatmill]

If you are using some new fangled camera/ phone to take pics, odds are it has a lot of metadata stored in the photo.

Date, time, GPS co-ordinates, etc etc

All of this information is easily extracted from the photo.

If you want some random unsavoury sort to work out the routine your kids are in the swing park, at home.... then the location, dates,times etc -it is very easy to for them to find out.
It is all stored in the photo.



Edit - Apparently it is called Geotagging.


Try this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM1HPoByJc8

Edited by Troubleatmill on Tuesday 25th November 22:41

[Xaero]

hornetrider said:

Matttracker said:

Mostly I don't mind, but my SIL posted pics of her "gorgeous baby nephew" before we'd announced he was born, that really f'ked me off!

Actually I remember now a cousin of mine (not very close to me either) bizarrely announced the birth of my daughter on FB before we had. He got a sternly worded message to remove it toot sweet.

Exactly the same thing happened to me, but in the early pregnancy. We (like most soon to be parents) wanted to reveal the news in our own time (after the first trimester, less chance of miscarriage and all that emotion) but my cousin announced it first! We only let close family know (parents and siblings), but shortly after I was getting messages from all sorts.

Now my son is here, my wife puts up too many photos on Facebook, but being an international couple, I don't mind it so much as we have family across 3 continents, but it would be nice to wind back in some privacy.

[anonymous-user]

Troubleatmill said:

If you are using some new fangled camera/ phone to take pics, odds are it has a lot of metadata stored in the photo.

Date, time, GPS co-ordinates, etc etc

All of this information is easily extracted from the photo.

If you want some random unsavoury sort to work out the routine your kids are in the swing park, at home.... then the location, dates,times etc -it is very easy to for them to find out.
It is all stored in the photo.



Edit - Apparently it is called Geotagging.


Try this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM1HPoByJc8

Edited by Troubleatmill on Tuesday 25th November 22:41

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all strip EXIF data automatically from any photo uploaded.

[Chrisgr31]

Seems strange that people would post pictures they have been sent on Facebook, I can understand posting pictures they have taken, or sharing ones already posted on Facebook.

Our daughter fairly regularly appears on Facebook and no issue with it.

[anonymous-user]

It's split approx 70/30 with my friends on Facebook.

70% of them share their baby/child photos incessantly week In week out on Facebook/Instagram etc.
30% rarely if ever post any photos of baby/child.

Despite being a fan and frequent user of internet media and social media, I have much more respect for those who keep things like their kids private.

I would like to think that when I had children I wouldn't plaster them all over the Facebook, and those that really wanted to meet my kids would actually come to my house or I would go to theirs.

Old fashioned or what??

[CC07 PEU]

I think the best thing to do would be to just not post pictures of the children online. I know a few people that put pictures of their kids up on Lifeinvader and it's just so boring to have to witness. It almost deserves a de-friending or whatever the term is.

[E24man]

My daughter is just into school and several of the other Parents are rabid social media users but after making it quite clear we ourselves (and several other parents) don't use social media the ones that do ensure the children of the ones that don't remain off their picture 'shows'.

[Jasandjules]

Surely you just tell them not to post pics of your kids on facebook?

[JQ]

schmalex said:

There are no circumstances under which I would allow someone (other than my wife or immediate family) post a picture of my son online. His friend's parents have put pictures of him and their children on Facebook in the past and I have insisted that they are removed immediately.

It's weird, as I'm not over protective of him at all, but the internet is a very scary place and many people have not the first inkling of security.

Why is it weird? What do think is going to happen? I'm genuinely interested, not having a go.

[E24man]

JQ said:

schmalex said:

There are no circumstances under which I would allow someone (other than my wife or immediate family) post a picture of my son online. His friend's parents have put pictures of him and their children on Facebook in the past and I have insisted that they are removed immediately.

It's weird, as I'm not over protective of him at all, but the internet is a very scary place and many people have not the first inkling of security.

Why is it weird? What do think is going to happen? I'm genuinely interested, not having a go.

I don't allow it because I'm acutely aware of how much information about an individual or family can be gleaned from just a small in their protection of information about themselves on the internet.

[schmalex]

E24man said:

JQ said:

schmalex said:

There are no circumstances under which I would allow someone (other than my wife or immediate family) post a picture of my son online. His friend's parents have put pictures of him and their children on Facebook in the past and I have insisted that they are removed immediately.

It's weird, as I'm not over protective of him at all, but the internet is a very scary place and many people have not the first inkling of security.

Why is it weird? What do think is going to happen? I'm genuinely interested, not having a go.

I don't allow it because I'm acutely aware of how much information about an individual or family can be gleaned from just a small in their protection of information about themselves on the internet.

^^^^. Exactly that

[JQ]

schmalex said:

E24man said:

JQ said:

schmalex said:

There are no circumstances under which I would allow someone (other than my wife or immediate family) post a picture of my son online. His friend's parents have put pictures of him and their children on Facebook in the past and I have insisted that they are removed immediately.

It's weird, as I'm not over protective of him at all, but the internet is a very scary place and many people have not the first inkling of security.

Why is it weird? What do think is going to happen? I'm genuinely interested, not having a go.

I don't allow it because I'm acutely aware of how much information about an individual or family can be gleaned from just a small in their protection of information about themselves on the internet.

^^^^. Exactly that

But my question is "what do think is going to happen"? What is it that posting a picture will do?

[schmalex]

Plainly put, I don't want someone's actions to put my son at risk of some nutter taking a shine to him and taking an opportunity to do god knows what.

True, the risk is probably less than 0.00001%, but it is a completely avoidable risk that I'm unwilling to take.

[Chrisgr31]

schmalex said:

Plainly put, I don't want someone's actions to put my son at risk of some nutter taking a shine to him and taking an opportunity to do god knows what.

True, the risk is probably less than 0.00001%, but it is a completely avoidable risk that I'm unwilling to take.

Surely its a lot easier for some nerdowell to just hang around outside the school? Reality is of course that the vast majority of offences against kids are committed by someone they or their parents know.