Do you post pictures of your children on social media?

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This is a debate I keep seeing cropping up as a side topic on MN threads and it's made me curious.

Do you or don't you and why?
I do (not overly but occasionally) and I was quite shocked by how many people are so completely against it.

Yes. Pretty much they are all I post.

No. I value their privacy.

Never. 17 yo dd makes up for it though

Yes , less so for my eldest ds but the girls are fine with it.

Nope never. I don’t have social media where I can post photos. I also ban the schools and clubs from putting them in their social media

Sometimes, none of those bath photos etc though!

Yes, but only occasionally and always nice photos, us on a day out or whatever. I never post anything embarrassing or anything I wouldn't want anybody to post about me.

Yes I do but I have access limited to family and close friends.

Yes but not publicly, just on my private page for friends and family to see.

Yes, but on a private instagram account and I obscure his face.

No. I will only put photos on WhatsApp to family and friends if they are OK with it. Would never put anything personal on Twitter and won’t touch Facebook.

Yes about twice a year. I rarely post much on SM though to be honest

I used to but I don't anymore. I see other people's posts with pics of their kids and I couldn't give a shit so I figure why would anyone give shit about mine Also my teens would kill me. I'd send a photo on whatsapp to immediate family though.

Yes - have a dedicated album on Facebook for DD. Security Settings are extremely high though. Have also restricted the album so only family can see when I post in it or view it.

My adult kids, yes if i have permission from them to do so.

My foster children, no for obvious reasons.

No, I don’t have social media any more and if I still did I wouldn’t post pictures of DD. Less about safety (although obviously that’s a factor I guess) and more about not wanting to create an online persona for her that she didn’t consent to. In general I’m a pretty private person anyway and never used to post much on the accounts I used to have.

Yes but it's limited access to friends and family and I actually mean people I know not just people on FB who are 'friends'
They aren't embarrassing or rude photos
I have a lot of family and good friends who live all around the world (for example my mum is from SA) and it's an easy way for us to keep in touch.

No. It is a case study on privacy that will be taught in the decades to come. Why would you put up pics of people who do not have have any say in their own privacy? Particularly when people will search for information on people for what ever reason they fancy.

I was told by a parent ‘who cares, the chances of my child’s pics being identified in the hundreds of millions of photos is minuscule.’ I always say, all it will take is somebody with facial recognition software to know who your family, friends, school, pets are.

The possibility of Google glasses scared the shit out of me. And there is a reason that the people who I know in IT and security services do not have no more than one grainy pic that they use.

Absolutely your choice but be prepared for your children to also ask for any pics of them to be removed from the internet in the future.

No. They can make their own decisions about that when they are old enough.

Yes I do. Nothing embarrassing. No cringey "omg luk at my ickle lickle bubba" captions. Nothing which is going to come back to bite them in the future, although my social media is restricted to friends only.

I think a lot of people are over the top paranoid about this sort of thing.

There's one child in DD's class who is banned from being on any school social media, even though school never print names. Just captions like "Primary 4C learning about the Egyptians". Child is hoiked out of group photos, she's not even allowed to have a school photo taken, not in any of the class photos or anything. Not because she's in witness protection or adopted or something, but because her mum is really weird.

Only to a locked instagram account that has only my parents and as members.

Mine are teen/adults now but no I didn't when they were younger.

Never and I request no one else (family, nursery) does either. If they end up in the background of a pic I don’t get hysterical though. I think once it’s out there you can’t get it back and it will be up to them to share what they want when they’re old enough (prob full frontal nudes to punish me)

Yes, not often but occasionally.

Yes, maybe once a month. I never show pics of them in school uniform, naked/in the bath, messy face pics, or anything that might be embarrassing when older.