to not understand why you would put naked photos of your dcs on FB?

[mrsgremola]

That's it really.Ex work mate regularly posts pics on holiday, in the summer, of DD trying on mummy's clothes. She is 4. Completely fully naked pics where you can see everything.

I might get flamed, I know there aren't paedos on every corner but why on earth would anyone put naked photos of their children on Facebook? I wouldn't do it.

Also, and I know I am a cow, I don't particularly want to see pics of her daughter naked. Which is why I have hidden her.

Once you put a picture or video on Fb, even if you remove it immediately afterwards Fb still have it.

herethere sorry I fell asleep last night, wasn't ignoring your question!
Is it different? Probably not but I don't necessarily agree with the photographers putting the pics on the web either. I just think it's a matter of respect for other peoples feelings.

Someone on my old fb put a pic up of her naked 4 yr old son who had fallen asleep sort of standing up but bent at the waist laying his head on the sofa and you really could see everything and wondered why people started deleting her. Some people really just don't get it. That kind of picture whilst was funny how he had fallen asleep was offensive and she could have easily chosen a different angle to take the photo and make it completely innocent. Poor kid having that pic all over fb!

Mojave why was it offensive and not completely innocent? Because he was naked. HE WAS FOUR. FOUR YEAR OLDS CANNOT BE OBSCENE OR SEXUAL (unless the viewer has the perspective of a paedophile). So what was wrong with it?

YY what Mrsterrypratchett said. I am so grateful I didn't have to navigate my way through adolescence with the added anxiety about embarrassing pics resurfacing online. I don't want my children to feel like that. They have enough to be embarrassed about with me as their mother.

Yanbu. I wouldn't do it as once a picture's on the internet it's there forever.

I wouldn't show naked pics of my kids to anyone other than family/very close friends (assuming child is a toddler - wouldn't have a naked pic much older than 5!), so why would anyone post on FB where you are sharing with a wider audience?

I have a friend who posted a picture of their daughter in hospital, was awfully sad because of the nature of her condition, but I felt very uncomfortable looking at the pic as she was naked - had they cropped the pic to just above waist level you would still have seen the tubes/wires and understood what they were going through but would have shown more respect.

It shows a lack of respect for the kids - I have a (to me) hilarious video of DD2 dancing around/singing/generally being quite cute when she was 3, but as she was starkers I didn't share on FB - i videod because it was so cute but would only have shared if she was clothed.

Even disregarding the fact that paedophiles (yes the do fucking exist, they're not a figment of the medias imagination) collect photos like this for sharing (and why the fuck would any parent think it fine for some sicko to be whacking off to their childs naked image?), this is an infringement of the childs rights to privacy and dignity and will very likely lead to bullying a few years from now when school peers put their name into fb's search engine (which they will do).

If parents are incapable of respecting their childrens right not to be the latest star of kiddie porn sites or having their displayed genitals used to humiliate and bully them in the classroom then the law needs to step in to protect them. If people want naked bodies on their fb page they can put their own up, if they want naked children bodies, let them put up their own childhood photos, nobody should be allowed to overexpose another person like that.

Is the only way of dealing with paedos collecting photos to ban all naked images of children? Isn't that like banning cars to prevent road accidents? Will banning the photos mean that paedos cease to exist? What about paedos who are particularly turned on by children who are not naked? They just happen to have a certain colour hair for example?

And why is it okay to infringe children's privacy if they are fully clothed but not if they're naked? Won't they be hugely embarrassed of silly things they said/did/sang/wore/ate before they could give their consent?

What about all those naked newborns that come up when you google "newborn photographer"? Should they all be banned?

What harm could it do my child if some weirdo used their picture? It's a picture- not a bit of their soul.

Here not banning naked pictures, but keep them in your album like they used to be,

A 4 yr old is a schoolaged child (or very nearly) not a baby or a toddler. Parents should have more respect for their child's dignity.

For me it is definitely a privacy issue rather than a safety one (although I acknowledge there are risks here too). At what age would you stop posting pictures that might later be embarrassing? 5? 10? 15?

What harm could it do my child if some weirdo used their picture?
No actual harm at all; any more than some weirdo using naked pictures of yourself you'd put on the net for all to see would be any harm.
It would still make my skin crawl though, and if the pictures were of yourself you'd have presumably made an informed decision to display them, your child has no such choice.

Presumably if you don't want children's pictures (dressed or otherwise) on the internet because they might be embarrassed and can't consent you don't let anyone see them in public for the same reasons? Can you buy special floor length paper bags or do you just not let them out?

Privacy issue for me. Everyone gets to decide how much they personally share on social media.

I don't see the connection between covering up in public and posting pictures (naked or otherwise) that will then go on to have a life of their own, over which your children have no control.

I appreciate that it is impossible to predict what will and what won't be embarrassing in future years, but for me I would rather err on the side of caution. I made a massive arse of myself on many, many occasions and I know how grateful I am that there is no pictorial evidence online.

Oh it isn't real and/or embarrassing unless there's a picture?

I don't understand anyone posting anything on the dreaded Facebook let alone naked pictures of their children. I agree that it's a respect thing .

Exactly love and enjoy te pictures in your album, or the like, but yes it is about dignity as well, posting your aked child in the Internet for all too see, have some respect!

Naked

I don't understand this either!

Paedophiles don't walk round with signs on their head to alert people to who they are. How do you know that someone on your 'friends list' isn't looking them with an ulterior motive in mind?'

Once those pictures are on Facebook anybody can copy them and save them onto their own desktop and do whatever they like with them - include email them to others!

Yes the risk is tiny I'm sure, but it's not a risk I would want to take.

Don't be daft selfrighteous of course I let them out! Just think of it this way. Would you want a naked or an embarrassing picture of you shared with the world without your consent? If not why is it any different for a child? They have no less right to privacy and respect than you do.

Disrespectful to the child, also innapropriate and uneccesary.