To have a picture of me and my daughter as my profile picture?

I have to do child safeguarding training as part of my job. The things I have learnt there about AI using images of children from social media to generate abuse images mean I never post photos of my children online, even on a private profile or if they are unidentifiable.

Put an emoji over her face in the picture if it bothers/worries you so much?

I think baby pics are okay. I don't post pictures of mine now that they are school age. Mainly because they don't even like having their pictures taken so would hate the idea of them being posted online.

I think the only person qualified to choose whether someone puts a photo of them on social media, is the person themself and obviously she's way too young to make that choice.

And the people who haven't met your baby, still won't have met your baby no matter what profile photo you use.

I've got 3 and I have never posted a picture of them online.

I send pictures to friends and family on whatsapp.

I don't want people I'm not close with at all, including my ex bullies, to look at pictures of my baby ( which could happen with a profile pic).

I also want to respect my children's privacy.

On top of that, with AI, there's pedophiles who go online, download innocent pictures of children and manipulate them to be something different. So I'm extra cautious.

However, that's just me. Everyone is different- you do you

I chuckled at the pearl clutching comment when you're showing remarkable levels of naivety.

You think that posting a picture of your kids in their uniform isn't identifiable because you didn't tag the school? Bless your cotton socks.

A computer would be able to take a pretty good guess based on the combo, any logo on show etc.

If you've posted photos of them anywhere outside, here's an app that'll use AI to give someone GPS coordinates based on the background. https://picarta.ai/

Just because you don't tag your home address, or the school, it isn't private and this is the software in its infancy, it's developing at incredible pace.

There are facebook executives on record saying they will never upload their children to the Internet, I'm sure they've no idea what they're talking about rollseyes

Your baby, your decision.

Admittedly I post on their birthday...not with their full name, one is a nickname also. And I haven't ever tagged school or where we live or where we live!
Also I am happy to show my face and happy to show where I work and my birthday!
I am talking about posting twice a year max ....stop clutching your pearls! 😁

I wouldn't post my children online, and definitely not as a profile picture that any one can see

I’ve no understanding of people posting a photo of the back of their child’s head, why bother posting a photo at all? I wouldn’t use a photo with my child as a profile photo.

Would you show me your face, tell me your date of birth, full name and the schools you attended?

If not, you're applying double standards.

Almost nobody is recognisable from their baby photos, to a person but that's not really the issue.

AI is advancing rapidly and it's well within the abilities of a computer to run facial recognition across historical social media posts and draw together a detailed picture of a person in the future based on these social media posts that you don't think matter.

Mothers maiden name, childhood pet, first school, memorable date. People are uploading all this stuff to the Internet with reckless abandon, with no idea how easy it will be for someone to search it using an image in the future.

That's without considering that AI is churning out huge amounts of child porn, using the faces of kids uploaded to social media. Your child cannot consent to your upload, and the consequences.

Sources readily available online for the deep fake thing, see BBC, Sky news, IWF etc.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/news/ai-generated-videos-of-child-sexual-abuse-a-stark-vision-of-the-future/

Even baby pictures have the possibility of leading to ID theft

• is this for a private account?
• can you have the picture in profile / with hat / glasses on etc so partially obscured?

I post a picture for each child's birthday with them and their birthday cake. Have doen since they were little. They now are old enough to know thats what I do. Then maybe a picture at Christmas and/or 1st day at school. Personally I think that's okay. But also that's me! I don't share anything else on social media. But we have family in 3 different countries so it's nice for friends and families to see a picture on average twice yearly

I really hate it when pictures of me are posted online without my knowledge (at one point my sister had form for posting flattering ones of herself with me looking fucking awful, which was infuriating as well as being a bit twatty, quite frankly).

I realise a photo with your baby is not the same, but I feel so strongly that it’s an invasion of their privacy that I never posted a single word about, or picture of, my children on social media. Everyone will inevitably have a digital footprint, but something as serious as a lifelong tail of words and images attached to a person forever should be under their control, and I don’t see the need to start creating that chain for them. It’s enough to share pictures privately, surely?

But then I accept I’m probably an anachronism. My kids are young adults now and can decide for themselves what they’re comfortable sharing - which is much more than I ever would!

I actually thought the same as this poster. While, yes you are the parents and should get final say, family or friends might see that PP as a sign you are relaxing that rule. Their face will be on social media, and it's a weak argument to say you can have it as your PP (visible to pretty much everyone on Facebook whether a friend or not) but they can't post a feed picture only their friends will see? You have put their face out there first.

Yes this

I don’t get why you think it’s different to post her face with you or another adult but not on her own. Any picture that shows her face can be taken and used by anybody.

I don’t post pictures of DC for this reason. Once you start, you have allowed everyone else to do the same. All or nothing on this one imo.

I think people are very over the top about this. I don't post anything that could be embarrassing in future, even if it's cute or funny now. But beyond that, I don't see the harm at all in posting a nice photo of a child with their mum.

I have a SIL who makes a huge deal about how she never shows her kids faces on social media, digital footprint blah blah blah. But then she's constantly posting about funny things they say or do, many of which make me cringe as they would so obviously be embarrassing for the child in future.

I wouldn't put it as my profile picture no. I just have a pic of me on my own as my profile picture.

I'd be happy to post a few selected pictures separately, with the relevant privacy settings.

If she's a very young baby now she's unlikely to be identifiable when older. Even by the time she's a toddler her hair and eye colour might be completely different.

Gah I know people will disagree but I think people are overly precious and hardline about this.

I agree in principle that children should consent to having a social media profile and plastering pictures of your kids online is a bit naff, particularly tweens and older. But infrequently posting pictures which aren’t massively identifiable to a select private group of friends doesn’t do any harm in my opinion.

Particularly a baby picture. You can’t really identify anyone from a baby photo.

I think it’s a case of each to there personally I don’t see a problem and wouldn’t think twice

others think posting a silhouette of there child blurred out at 200ft is horrendous

do what you feel comfortable with but everyone has different idea of what’s acceptable

Yes crossed with my edit. That's the weird thing. So precious about digital images but then would do that?