Baby pics on FB

[Erroltheowl]

AIBU a friend mentioned to me the other day about how great it will be to put cute baby pics on fb once i have had a baby,but i turned around and said i wont be because it is wrong on so many levels IMHO and i (think) i would be too busy caring for baby doing the laundry for baby sterilising bottles etc to even sit down and finish an entire hot drink and watch 30 mins of tv if i did have spare time it would mean something needed doing and i wasnt doing it, plus i don't know what my facebook friends do in there spare time or what goes through their minds (if it was that easy to detect a pedo they wouldn't exist) even though my entire FB is privatised and i don't allow followers of people to find me in search engines someone could still hack my account for the heck of it and see pics of my PFB AIBU i'd rather keep my children off facebook and the internet until it their own choice whether or not they want to become a part of that at 16.

[YellowTulips]

I think this is PFB taken to a whole new level.

It's a choice. Don't put pictures on FB. Email them to family instead. Sorted.

However the level of paedo paranoia is excessive if your FB is locked down.

[SqutterNutBaush]

I thought this was major PFB but one of the OPs posts mention a phonecalls from DS or DH which would indicate another, surely not?

[AgentZigzag]

Of course there are predatory females Squtter, but nowhere near the numbers relative to men.

Any that do do that, there's usually a manipulative man behind their behaviour.

[Erroltheowl]

DS meaning sister

[Thumbwitch]

But Yellow - don't you know that emails can be hacked? By paedos just waiting for pics of sweet babies to be sent by email! No no no, stay away from the email.

In fact, best stay off the internetz altogether, just in case.

[slithytove]

And breathe :)

Firstly, you will have time. Many newborns sleep a lot. When they get a bit older, it's good to let them have supervised play time on their own, encourages imagination. perfect for sitting on mn

Also, sterilising bottles = chucking clean bottles into sterilising liquid
Laundry = maybe two extra loads a week? So not much more than now really.

However, if you want to keep pics of your kids off the Internet, it's your call and no big deal. Maybe not best to criticise others for doing so with their kids though, it's great for sharing photos with geographically distant friends and family.

I would suggest if you are unsure if any if your friends are paedophiles, perhaps you need to reassess your friends selection criteria. I'm certain none of my friends are paedos, and they would not be friends if I thought they were.

[SqutterNutBaush]

Errol in response to your OP no YANBU.

It is your child and your choice, I do put pictures up although not very many and I wouldn't post embarrassing or nasty pictures/comments.

[slithytove]

Hahaha you don't HAVE to say that your baby is making your life difficult! You could say, I don't know...

Birthday boy turns 1!
First steps :)
My wee man has teeth

That sort of thing

[slithytove]

thumb



not good for my pelvic floor

[PrincessBabyCat]

But.. but how do you know your DH isn't secretly a pedo?

[Rockinghorse123]

I don't put pictures on Facebook, I hardly post anything just use it to be noseyso I just thought it would be odd to suddenly start posting pics of DS.

I do have a Instagram account where I put the odd pic of him on but I tend to just email family and friends pics as and when.

It's just personal choice but you will drive yourself mad with the mind set that every other person could potentially be out to harm your child, you will end up never going any where or doing anything!

[PansOnFire]

You're being hysterical. And judgemental. Of course you'll be a better mum than those mums who put pictures up on Facebook of their kids because they are obviously lazy and do nothing around the house. Poor neglected babies.

Get a grip. You seriously need to relax if you're going to survive the first few months of motherhood. Facebook is what it is, use it or don't. But stop judging those who do.

[Macocious]

I have it on good authority that the self service machines in photo shops save copies of your photos and have a direct link to the pedo network so I'd watch out if I were you best revert to film and get your own small dark room to develop those photos if you want to keep your poor baby safe

[slithytove]

I thought those self service machines had a pedo sitting inside them, ready to take copies of any sweet baby photos for their own nefarious purposes?

errol... Are you pregnant?

[Linskibinski]

Oh my word I was having the worst crappiest day in work and now I am all cheered up. Hilarious thread, thank you all! And to those nasty paedos out there BACK AWAY WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE! only we don't, because they can literally be anyone anywhere that's why we don't get hysterical we just take sensible precautions

[slithytove]

Lins, just check OP's friend list on fb and then stay the fuck away from them

[AgentZigzag]

I really don't get why trying to protect your children is worthy of ridicule.

Yeah, the OP maybe could have written her posts differently, and she's going OTT imagining how things are going to be if she has a baby, but why the piss take of anyone who's concerned about who has access to their children?

[MoominAndMiniMoom]

Yep, OP, you'll have no free paedo-spotting time at all.

I totally have haven't beaten my Tetris and Bejeweled high scores and written two large university essays in the four weeks since DD was born.

No spare time at all. Its not like babies sleep or anything.

[MoominAndMiniMoom]

Yep, OP, you'll have no free paedo-spotting time at all.

I totally have haven't beaten my Tetris and Bejeweled high scores and written two large university essays in the four weeks since DD was born.

No spare time at all. Its not like babies sleep or anything.

[slithytove]

Because she thinks it's possible all of her friends could be paedophiles. It takes paranoia to the extremes there a bit. Plus there was some drama about the whole idea of anyone putting a photo of their kids online.

OP has been supported with the general idea of keeping photos of her children off the Internet, as is her right.

[CoteDAzur]

Fantastic thread

OP - What on earth do you think a paedophile would want the pic of your sleeping newborn for? Do you not realize that expecting your Facebook account to be hacked (no less) for pics of your tiny baby who will initially look exactly like every other newborn is rather insane?

[AgentZigzag]

But it's possible that someone around her is slithy. It's thinking it's not possible that's unrealistic.

You said earlier that you're certain none of your friends are and they wouldn't be your friends if they were, but that's the point, they can be totally normal, lovely even, when they're not offending.

I'm not in a constant state over whether everyone around my DDs are, but a lot of it isn't black and white when you're close to the offender.

I can't help but get the feeling that the OP's being panned because of her shit grammar and spelling. Since when did that mean you can't ask about stuff you're thinking about?

[PrincessBabyCat]

Statistically speaking, her husband is most likely to be a predator. Followed by people that are close to the child and interacting with them. It's likely to be someone that's in constant physical contact with the child. It's rare that a pedo is just going to randomly pull up a picture of a baby and have a wank.

[missknows]

I suppose you are having a home birth with no medical staff present in case any of them are paedos? And your child will then not leave the house for 16 years in case anyone you meet outside is? And if they get ill you can just google what's wrong with them because you know those doctors can be dodgy, not to mention all those creepy old men in surgery waiting rooms!

I can understand people who don't put pics on fb for privacy reasons but to think a paedophile will hack your account to get to a pic of a fully clothed newborn when there are billions of others around? Reality is most new mothers are just so full of pride of their little bundle of joy they want their friends to see them. And night feeds like this when you are all alone I don't think your sister or husband will appreciate a phone call from you! But quite a handy time for browsing MN and uploading baby pics to fb

[Nennypops]

Look, there are millions of pictures of babies out there. If a paedo wants a picture of a baby, it is the work of seconds to find one. Why would they need to go to all the trouble of hacking into your account?