Our old CM has set up a facebook page to help advertise her business.
We only knew about this due to her DH and my DH having a few friends in common as they play golf at the same club, one of these friends contacted DH and said something like “I didn’t realise your DS went to X CM” DH said that he used to but he didn’t anymore (hasn’t been for nearly two years).
WIBU to contact her and ask her to remove the pictures of DS. Not because of some internet paedophile hysteria, but because
A) DS left as we were very unhappy with the service she was providing (she was really quite awful towards the end), so I feel a bit annoyed that his image is being used to advertise her business when I don’t think it’s a particularly good one.
B) We were never asked if she could use photos of him on social media (the nursery he is at has a facebook page that you can only see if you are a parent, I am quite happy to see his photos on there, as we get a little peek into what he gets up to, its great).
Also, I am surprised that her page is public. I (am hoping) that she would have sought the parents permission to put her current mindees on her page, which is fine, but it seems to be full of pictures taken at soft play centres with lots of other children in the background. I know that I may get flamed for this and maybe I am just a bit sensitive, but is that not quite irresponsible? For instance, I have a friend who adopted a child who had quite a ‘chaotic’ background, due to this, she does not put any pictures on social media sites as, even though it is a tiny risk that her child could be recognised, it is still a risk not worth taking. So I cant help but think, when my old CM post pics of her mindees, with other children running about and playing in the background, tagging them at “X Soft Play Centre, in X Town”, what if one of the one of the children in the background is in a similar situation? Like I said, I know it’s a tiny risk and I am probably being ridiculous but surely she should at least make her photos private?