To think naked pics of your kids on social media is a no-no?

[Bellerina2]

One of my oldest friends has a lovely little girl aged just over 3. She's always posting cute photos of her on Facebook but this past week she's posted two of her daughter naked that are from her Instagram account. Is it just me who thinks that perhaps that's not a great idea? Especially when her Instagram account isn't private.

It's not on. I don't put any pictures of my children on FB until they are old enough to have an FB account and old enough to understand the issues. Schools seem to do a good job of teaching them it's wrong; my 11 year old was telling me why they thought it was wrong of me to put a picture of my 17 year old on FB when all they were doing was providing a bit of extra interest to a landscape photo!

weirdly protective of your tiny child's modesty,???

Social media wasn't around when I was a kid, but I'm confident that my Mum wouldn't have been thick enough to post pictures of me, naked at 3 yrs, online so potentially, hundreds of thousands of people, can keep them for all eternity.

Thanks Mum.

Yes I think maybe there is some confusion as to the law. If I show a picture of my child in the bath to my mum I am not breaking laws to do with images of children. The law is around images of abuse.

I just wanted to say that in case anyone read the thread and was concerned about the legality of having pictures that are in fact perfectly legal. Someone posting a picture of their naked baby on FB is not guilty of distributing indecent images of children. for eg.

YANBU I think my child is entitled to as much privacy as I am.

I couldn't resist taking a photo of DS recently when I found him asleep in bed in the strangest of positions. I stopped short of sharing it on FB though. I don't believe I have the right to publish a photo on social media if he didn't even know it was being taken.

The same applies to 3 year olds running around in the nuddy. It is totally innocent, of course, but don't show the whole world without them being aware or consenting.

Sat in a room with three Sgts and an inspector. It is illegal to distribute those images online (Which is the question I asked)

maybe they ought to read the link then

Jesus really? I have photos of my (own) naked babies and toddlers on my Fbook page. My security is set so that only my friends can see them, there are no full frontals (just a couple of bare bottoms waddling into the surf) and my Fbook friends are all genuine friends...is that illegal then? Does that qualify as 'distributing'? Not that I'd rush to take them down if it was illegal tbh...

It always amazes me when parents post pictures of their kids in the bath etc where you can see everything, on Facebook or other social media. I do wonder what their thought process is, especially when most are not that stupid normally.

With instagram I guess if she has tagged the photo with words a random person could find it so YANBU

It's just common sense to me really. By all means take the photo but why would you want to share anything that might cause your child future embarrassment on social media, whether it be a public or private profile.

Storm, I generally think if you don't have pictures of your own bare bum on there, don't have ones of your children's.

Probably not the most popular view but I stand by it. But I hate cute 'naked' pictures anyway.