Naked baby / toddler photos on Facebook

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A friend of mine regularly posts pictures of her family, including her 1 yr DS - one of her relatives complained on her photos, asking her to "put some trousers on the boy". She has 700+ friends so they're not all close friends.

He was very rude to complain so publicly, but was he wrong? Is it ok to post naked pictures of your children so publicly?

Nude photos maybe cute and innocent, but they belong in a family album, not on the internet.

Oh dear - I posted an album of family pics on fb yesterday. I know a couple were of DD2 in the bath but I honestly couldn't tell you without looking if there are any strategic bubbles.

Whether to post those pics or not never crossed my mind. I just thought they were nice...

And honestly if DD1 did tell me years later that she had a problem with my posting cute bath photos I'd think I must have done her something wrong with how i raised her.

I can't get my head around the mindset of someone looking at a picture of themselves, months old, and getting upset with who saw it/where it was posted.

I strongly think posting naked pics of your babies/toddlers on fb or other social networks is not fine. They will be adults one day, teenagers first, and that will be horrifying for them.

But mostly because the thought of a group of paedo's sharing and getting off on pictures of my kids, that i had (in effect by posting them publicly on the internet) willingly supplied them with, makes me feel totally sick.

You don't need to post them, no one else wants to see them, so why the hell do it? If you want to share a cute naked beach or bath pic with their grandparents or aunt, then email it.

Luckily we can all chose what we do and don't do with photos of our DCs. So it's not really an issue is it?

Don't want to? Don't do it.
Don't see a problem? Post away.

Easy

*choose

"And honestly if DD1 did tell me years later that she had a problem with my posting cute bath photos I'd think I must have done her something wrong with how i raised her."

Farking hell. Maybe she just doesn't want her colleagues and acquaintances seeing naked baby pictures of her. Nothing 'wrong' with that. If she wants to post naked baby pictures, that is her choice.

I'm with what ApocalypseNowt said. I suspect this is one of those 'only on mumsnet' things.

Yup

On only MN

I hate "only on MN", just another way to shut people down. I may be posting on MN but I am still a person. My cute nakey pics are for me and my loves ones, not my old work colleague on FB. Do you not remember being a teenager? Awkward enough time!

I'm not trying to shut anyone down

I have just never encountered anyone IRL having an issue with naked babies or toddlers, but it seems quiet prevalent on MN. If you don't want to post pictures of your children naked, don't do it. No one is making you or even asking you to, so it really isn't an issue.

I do remember being a teenager. I would not have been embarrassed by naked pictures of me as a baby. Because I was, you know, a baby. Which is a pretty normal thing to have been at one point. Ditto being naked underneath my clothes.

You're missing the point catgirl. Our children are individuals in their own right. I do not think it's for us to choose on their behalf whether or not to show pictures of their genitals to other people.

But we make loads of choices on their behalf. Because they are not capable of making them themselves.

TBH I don't think I have any pictures of DS with his genitals showing on FB. There are bath ones but nothing showing. That's not massively deliberate, just how they came out.

But if I saw a pic of someone else s baby naked, I wouldn't register it as odd.

I totally respect that some people don't feel comfortable posting naked pics and that's fine. I just don't get people getting upset about other people doing it with their children.

Personally speaking, all of the choices I make on my DCs behalf are for their own good.....

Showing pictures of their genitals to complete strangers doesn't benefit them in any way, shape or form. It is at best disrespectful (and let's not even go there about the worst)

Putting them in a blue top rather than a green top doesn't benefit them in any way, shape or form. And for me is a choice with about the same level of impact. It's just that much of a non-issue for me.

If other people see it differently, that's fine because they are under no obligation to post pictures of their children anywhere or in any context if they don't wish to. So I don't get the frothing (not from you Saucy, but there has been a bit)