If both parents are off facebook...

[PuckeredAhole]

.... do you think it's acceptable for grandparents to still post pictures of the parent's children?

My husband and I aren't on facebook so I have no clue if my parents/in laws still post photos of my children. I just assume they wouldn't. I think that if they are posting I'd be a bit miffed. One of the many reasons I'm not on facebook is because I don't want to be tempted to post photos of my kids. I'm worried about their right to privacy and also facial recognition done by employers in the future.

Genuine question, I understand the right to privacy thing, fine, but what on earth could your parents possibly post about children that would be an issue for future employers?

I think you're being OTT re future employment prospects.

My MIL doesn't ask if she can post photos. She's a bit naive about social media and has barely any idea how it works but she's not doing anything harmful so we just leave it.

Remind them not to post, it is not unreasonable not to want pictures of your children on the internet. Loads of people seem to think this is an unusual position, but you don't need to justify yourself.

You never know what your children may want to do in the future and how they may feel about images of them as a child being freely available. As parents it is your decision how best to look after your child's interests until they are old enough to do so themselves.

Future employment issues ? What are you on about not being sarky just wondering ? Dc is a Pc when they starting her training they went through face book flagged up daft teenage pictures or drunk pictures and they deleted them as did I and she managed to get on with her training and employment. If you don't want your childrens pictures because you think it invades their privacy that is ok just tell the grandparents but you are coming across paranoid.

Urgh typos galore sorry you get my gist

If you don't want them to post pics on FB, I would specifically mention this to them and ask them not to do so. Otherwise they may just assume you are fine with it. I've done with with my kids' grandparents and they were perfectly fine about it. If they want to share a photo with, for example, a friend, they just send my text or email now. I'm fine with that.

For me, it's not that I worry about future employers, it's more that FB then own those pics and can do whatever they want with them once they are posted. FB don't always follow their own rules with privacy stuff, and the amount of info they are storing is quite scary when you look into it.

I'm currently in the middle of a complaint to school as they have put multiple photos of my children in FB, despite me very clearly filling a form in denying them permission to do this. In fact I wrote NO FACEBOOK PHOTOS in it just so it was extra clear to then! So even if people agree not to put photos on I would double check occasionally that they have remembered this.

That is bloody shocking that school went against your very clear instructions of no facebook Roomba you sign these forms expecting your tick of the box to be respected data protection and all that.