Am i being a prude...

[Peanutbuttertuesday]

... or is posting photos of your DCs in their undies on fb a bit odd?

A friend of a friend keeps putting them up and i was really quite taken aback. So much so that i've hidden her posts.
Don't get me wrong, i have nothing against people letting their kids be naked, in fact my DS seems to spend half his time running around the house in the nude! But i would never dream of putting the pictures up, i mean, i don't know her THAT well and it's so easy for other people to access fb accounts.
AIBU or is that just very inappropriate. Do you think i should say something?

I am with drseuss on this one. The whole peado thing is a red herring and not something that would really concern me that much. What does worry me is the thought that once you put a picture on the Internet you cannot guarantee its removal or it's continued privacy. You loose control of that picture and who sees it. Facebook privacy settings are complete bollocks to be honest and cannot be relied upon at all.

To go with the mantelpiece analogy it is like having a photo on your mantelpiece that anyone who sees can take a copy of without you knowing and then put that copy somewhere you have no control over. You might remove it from your mantel piece but you can never know where else there mint be copies.

Plus there is always the possibility that Facebook might choose to change it's privacy or ownership rules meaning that you may find that one day that photo no longer even belongs to you anymore and Facebook have decided to make a lovely book including your terribly private photos.

My mum may have embassasing photos of me in an album (though i did cull the worst of them in my teens) at home but I am ever thankful that only a tiny tiny number of people will ever have access to those photos whereas if they were on the Internet they are there for the whole world to see. I think it is rather awful for kids at the moment that they are not so lucky.

Gosh, there are so many spelling mistakes in that post I don't know where to begin. I hang my head in shame and curse my iPad's stupid keyboard and auto-correct

I also think its hysterical.

Paedophiles seem to take footage of children themselves, both "innocent" that they pervert later and also where a child is being raped or assaulted. A private picture of a child in a pants is not really such a big deal. In terms of the privacy/dignity aspects, I suspect that these things will be SO commonplace by the time our kids are adults that it will be no different to saying do you remember that we used to splash in the pool in our pants? I think the image will lose its power. My 2 year old knows how to flick forward pictures on an iPhone and I don't even own one! Just from seeing his Granny's - and she lives in a different country! This is our brave new world.