Do you cover your child / children’s faces on social media?

[mondayisntmyfavourite]

No judgement here just curious as to whether you do this or not, and if you do what your reasons are? If happy to share of course.

I don’t have children yet and see most people share their children’s photos on their private social media while a few others cover their faces with emojis or blur them out. I’ve no idea what I’d eventually do myself!

I don't put them on social media

I have a ‘close friends’ list on Instagram (basically people I know are real people, not faceless businesses or people I don’t know, my account is locked now but didn’t used to be and I couldn’t be bothered turfing them out). I only post pictures or stories with his face to that list. The occasional one of the back of him or where you can’t really see his face to ‘the public’.

I didn’t put mine on social media as a general rule. This has started to slide slightly as they get involved in clubs etc as they’ve got older, but I will never post a picture myself of them online until they’re old enough to give proper consent.

I didnt put them on SM. Ever. They are adults now but I still dont put them on there.

I posted pictures on SM (only viewable to friends) of them up until about a year ago. I then changed my stance on it and I don’t put any photos up now that show their faces, apart from on their birthdays I put one of them up as newborns. I also went through and deleted of all their photos that I’d put up, which took awhile…

I am not “friends” with their dad on FB anymore but he still puts photos of them up I think.

Nope.
I don't put photos of my children on social media.

Yes, we are an adoptive family and birth family are in same county. We protect for safeguarding reasons, but if I had a second by birth would do the same. I like that our photos are private and for us. I don’t blank our faces - I only put non-identifying pictures (distance photo from back etc).

I've never posted my kid's faces on SM and neither does anyone I know.

I wouldn’t cover them with an emoji as it looks so stupid (unless I was advertising for sale the clothes they are wearing. I’ve never posted them online

It amazes me how many people post pictures of their kids on dating apps too!

I used to post pictures when DC were young, but all my old pictures are now hidden on FB. They're from very early FB so it's taken me a year or so to hide everything because I wait for my FB memories every day so I can hide pretty much everything from back in the day. FB was very different in its inception in 2007. We were all a lot more candid then.

I have locked down profiles and am very selective about who I accept as friends/followers.
I then have a “close friends” list on Instagram which only has family members and genuine close friends on it, and I only post stuff with my DCs in it to that specific list. We live abroad right now, so that’s an easy way to keep the people I care about in the loop