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To not want anyone to have access to all of my pictures of DS?

28 replies

Misunderstood48 · 23/09/2012 15:30

I have uploaded all of my pictures of my DS (8000+) to google+ just to back them up.

DH said that we should make them all accessible to family by giving them our account and password.

AIBU to say no way?

I don't want everyone to see all our pictures that we have ever taken of DS as I want to put some on canvas and do a photo album and I don't want everyone to have seen all of the pictures we have ever taken.

I just think that it is personal to me to have some pictures to show rather than everyone in the family having access to all of them.

DH thinks that I am being very unreasonable but am I really?

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FryOneFatManic · 23/09/2012 15:35

YANBU

If you give your account details to your family, how will you ensure they don't give those details to anyone else.

I keep everything that is online about me and my family very private. If someone in my wider family wants to look or has reason to know some info, they come to see me and I give them only what they have requested.

squeakytoy · 23/09/2012 15:36

Do you not think that 8000+ is a tad fecking excessive??? Confused

YANBU to want to give everyone access but seriously 8000????

ThreadWatcher · 23/09/2012 15:38

YADNBU

I am [shocked] that you have 8000 photos though.
And Envy I have more like 200 of mine and they are 8 and 11!

NeedaWee · 23/09/2012 15:40

id be very surprised if anyone else was even slightly interested tbh

baby photos rank on boredom scale with holiday photos of the lake district

PennyDead · 23/09/2012 15:41

8000 photos?

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Misunderstood48 · 23/09/2012 15:42

Thankyou for the replies, I do have a extreme little obsession with taking pictures as I only have a couple of when I was a baby so I wanted DS to have plenty Blush

DS was 1 last week

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RubyFakeNails · 23/09/2012 15:42

8000 PLUS?!

Thats enough for 1 everyday for over 21 years!!!!

I can't imagine they would want access to all that but yanbu for not wanting them to have it.

Thumbwitch · 23/09/2012 15:43

How old is your DS? I mean, if he's 20, then 8000+ photos isn't that bad really.

YANBU, btw - I wouldn't let anyone else have the password either. If DH is that fecking bothered, why not just select some for a flickr album or something and pass that on instead?

Glittertwins · 23/09/2012 15:44

Might be boring to you but some people do like to see them.
We have well over 10000 that we or others have taken. I know this as the file counter ticked over a month or so back.

I would not be handing over a google plus profile and password. If you want to share them, use a tool like photobucket and put certain ones in it.

jammic · 23/09/2012 15:44

I can't imagine anyone else having the time, inclination to look through all 8000 of your photos so I wouldn't worry!

Thumbwitch · 23/09/2012 15:44

Fucknhell, he's one????
OK, you're obsessed. Consider trimming them down...

Pascha · 23/09/2012 15:44

That means you have taken an average of just shy of 22 pictures per day Confused

WorraLiberty · 23/09/2012 15:45

Catch yourself on

Do you really think anyone on this earth is going to study 8000+ photos of your child in any detail?

I imagine they would have lost the will to live after the first hundred.

PicklesThePottyMouthedParrot · 23/09/2012 15:45

I think even my mum would struggle to look at 8000 of a one year old.

I see your point. Can you make a small family album for your family and keep the rest private?

McHappyPants2012 · 23/09/2012 15:45

I could easily double that, my camera holds 1000 of photos. I remember pricing them up last years and it would cost £100 to get them all printed.

Op Yanbu there are some photo that are private, with me it breast feeding picture, the pictures of me in labour and the very 1st photos of Dc. Bath pic ect I don't want any one apart from DH

Original poster
Misunderstood48 · 23/09/2012 15:49

Fryone I never thought about that and I will add this to my list of concerns to DH.

I am very private about my family life, No facebook etc. It was a straight no to allowing anyone to have access to all of our pictures.

I do email family pictures if they ask but DH said that he wants his family to see them all.

It took a long time to upload them all!

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TidyGOLDDancer · 23/09/2012 15:51

Fuck me, 8000?!?! I thought for sure that would be a typo!

YANBU I suppose, but honestly and in the nicest possible way, no one is going to wade through all those photos. Baby photos are never as thrilling to others are the parents think they are.

I don't blame you for wanting to keep some photos just for you though.

Original poster
Misunderstood48 · 23/09/2012 15:53

Pascha I have taken over 200 in a day many times Blush

Maybe I should consider photo rehab...

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Original poster
Misunderstood48 · 23/09/2012 15:54

Thankyou all for the replies, I will try to explain it a bit more to DH when he is back.

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MrsCampbellBlack · 23/09/2012 15:55

I wouldn't hand over passwords but for close family perhaps put them somewhere else on line with a separate log-on. But you know - not all 8000 Wink

MrsCampbellBlack · 23/09/2012 15:56

I am absolutely amazed at 200 photos in one day though Shock [misses point of thread entirely]

Sallyingforth · 23/09/2012 15:58

I am very private about my family life, No facebook etc. It was a straight no to allowing anyone to have access to all of our pictures.

I applaud that. Well done for keeping private things private.
But remember that security is only as good as the security of the password. I hope that you don't have that password saved on phones, laptops etc that might get lost or stolen. You need to enforce a log-in-every-time environment.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 23/09/2012 16:00

If they are on google+ they are I think also on Picasa Web Albums. Create a new folder in there for photos for your family. Set privacy to with link only. Give your family the link to that folder. You can reset the link (thus removing access) whenever you want

McHappyPants2012 · 23/09/2012 16:00

Op it is so easy to do, Christmas Day for example I took over a hundred photos and also had the camcorder out.

I love looking at old photos of my dc, I know where my problem stems from as my parents have not got any photos of me before the age of 7 as they was all distroyed in a house fire

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 23/09/2012 16:01

Don't give them your username and password! That is the same across all Google sites so you would be giving them access to any Google services you use, search, Gmail, maps etc

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