Do you post pic of your children's faces online / judge people who do / don't and why ?

No, never. I would have hated random friends of my parents to see photos of me as a child, so I extend the same courtesy to my own children. I really don't see any reason to post pics of children online.

I hate anyone sharing pictures of their children online. Especially in the bath, when they are ill, showing school uniform or sharing private medical information like ADHD diagnosis. I am glad there seems to be more parents not doing it. Celebrities are the worst, they overshare everything for money.

Yes I do.

Not I don't judge others for making different decisions to me.

I remember someone on my Facebook many years ago putting a photo of herself as a child, with her siblings, in a paddling pool.
All the children were naked and you could see a child's penis.
Reported it ro Facebook. Apparently, it didn't breach community standards, or whatever it was called back then. 🤬

@ClonedSquare agreed completely

In public it's totally dependent on the specific circumstances whether they could do anything about it. Taking photos of people in public place is legal.

We posted pictures of our kids when they were younger.
People seem to have a fear that a pedophile will see them on their SM, think ‘oh I like the look of that kid’ and then somehow work out where they go to school or their address.

Genuine question: why does that matter? If I'm only sharing non-embarrassing photos, what harm would come of my aunt sharing it with her friends or a random lady in America?

The chances of a paedophile going to the effort to meet a friend of a friend’s toddler based on some mundane photos of them at the park is surely minute.

When you share with anyone, you are sharing with anyone that they want to share with. I had an aunt who would screenshot every picture of anyone and share it to god knows who... people she talked to once on a crafters group in America etc.
Once a picture is online, it could be anywhere. No matter how secure you think you are being.

I do on my personal IG, followers limited to friends and family. I regularly check the list too.

Never on FB as my contacts there are much wider.

Never of anything other than holidays and successes really. I like to use it like a diary. Maybe 1-2 photos a month.

I do judge influencers who use their kids to generate income and as part of their business. Seemingly the parent no longer has an external employment and the ads fund their day to day. No references to the sums being given to the kids in their own account. There has been some litigation in the US where parents have been forced to pay back sums received where they have used their kids for advertising but not given / invested the money for them. There are families who still generate income (Rutherford et al) but who consciously cover kids faces. Good for them but obviously easier to do if you are already a celebrity rather than someone who has become known via IG (Lauren wotsit).

I don't post any pictures of my kids. I genuinely don't think anybody really wants to see them.

In my last job before retiring, when recruiting they used to trawl the SM of the applicant.

I don't use social media. My husband does and posts pictures of our children but it set to private so only family and friends can see. I wouldn't allow them to be public for anyone to see though as privacy is important to me and given they are children I don't think they can consent to it or not.

So agree. Also the ones who post " I love you so much" to their husbands. Go to the next room and tell him. It's performative shite.

Sporadically and for a while non as teen DS didn't want me too. I do now

I have a FB colleague who posts pictures of her kids but blanks their faces out, or has odd positions. The latest is putting huge sunglasses on them (baby and toddler). Totally get that it's what works for her but it looks so odd

Yes I do.

I know someone who regularly post about her child’s incontinence issues online and I cringe every time I see it. Her child has a slight physical health problem and isn’t going to want to be reminded about how he used to shit himself all the time as a child!

I post my son on my instagram but I have a private profile and genuinely only add people I know as friends. I never post anything that would be embarrassing or gross. When he's older, I'll let him decide if he's happy for me to post things. I don't worry about anything nefarious happening because of posting him, although I wouldn't post him if my friend's list was less strict.

I do roll my eyes at people who post emojis over their kids face. Either post them or don't, the middle ground is pointless.

The worst ones (apart from the obvious borderline abuse/pranks/sharing inappropriate pictures and details) are the ones that post things TO their children.

Like…..”Henry, I’m so proud of you and how well you’re doing at potty training, blah, blah, blah, I love you so much, puke, vomit, blah”.

Henry is one Janet. He can’t read. He doesn’t even know what social media is.

I post very little photos of my kids online. I keep my social media quite locked fien but feel it's better not to have huge amounts of details or photos of my kids online. I know people that post photos daily of there kids and unfortunately don't realise that there kids school, home, day to day routines, interests, activities etc can be tracked very easily. One of my dcs is nuerodivergent I also don't post that on social media and very much judge parents that post videos of kids meltdowns etc as it just seems attention seeking to me

My kids are all older teens now but I have always posted occasional pics of them online, mostly on facebook.

All my friends on Facebook are proper friends, people I genuinely know. Not randomers who have requested me, or people I only "know" online.

I don't judge people who don't post their kids' faces but do think it's really weird that they go to the effort of plastering an emoji over a face or something, just choose another picture or post without a picture.

If some strange bloke was taking a picture of your child in public I imagine most parents would hit the roof.

I post pics of my kids in my private fb and instagram. I don’t really have anyone I don’t know as a followers, and I wouldn’t post anything embarrassing or unkind, even when they were babies I was always selective about what I posted. I don’t really see the issue to be honest! What do people do with your pictures that you post online that they couldn’t do just by photographing you in the street which anyone can do if they feel like it!

I did when they were younger, but not now they are older as they are much more aware of the dangers than i was. I dont actually know who owns the photos i posted now.

I did occasionally but was a real Luddite and didn’t even get social media myself until I set up my own business kids were older by then.

Glad I didn’t as dd1 v careful and rarely posts pictures of herself dd2 posts a little more but again not much and very carefully so it would have felt wrong to have merrily plastered them everywhere when they wouldn’t choose to do that themselves,