Facebook and Photos

[ShimmeryShiny]

How do people feel about posting photos of their children on Facebook? I am starting to think that maybe I shouldn't do it anymore. I don't do it much anyway but I kind of get sucked in and of course this week it's all the back to school photos.

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I stopped a few years ago. DCs started saying they didn’t want me to so I don’t. I only share photos with my mum/exMIL via WhatsApp. (DCs have OKed this)

As far as I'm aware a photo of my son isn't online yet. He's 2 in November. I use social media frequently and there have been times where I've wanted to share a really cute picture. But myself and my husband decided he can choose for himself when/if he wants to go online. I love that my childhood was before social media and therefore my childhood photos are all private.

I used to post photos, into very private albums that only very select people could see, but I haven't for several years now. I wouldn't like photos of me as a child to be shared, so why should I expect my children to. It is my social media account and they are not me, they are people in their own right and have the right to privacy until such a time that they are able to decide for themselves.

Oh and I only keep my Facebook account so that I can police other people posting photos of them. SIL is a bugger for sneakily putting photos of them on her page and we've had a few parents at birthday parties posting pictures of all the children, including mine, which I always ask to be taken down. I think it's incredibly rude to post pictures of other people's children without permission.

I don’t post pics of mine, or my niece and nephew. They are all too young to consent to it. They occasionally pop up in group photos of family events but not tagged to me or DSis.

I think it could be too easy for someone with bad intentions to get too much info on them.