Do you post pictures of your children on social media?

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I use social media quite a lot, I've been posting pictures of DC since I started to use facebook and then instagram so when my oldest was around 4 and there's pictures of my other children from birth to now. It's nice to have them there to look back on but I do wonder sometimes whether I should, I find some of my own childhood pictures a bit embarrasing. My DC aren't too bothered by it, youngest is too young understand, middle one couldn't care less, my oldest is a teenager now so she cares a little more and I ask her permission before posting anything of her. Most people I know also post pictures of their DC regularly, I only know a couple who don't at all

No, never have and never will. I am unusual amongst my friends although most don’t post many with one notable exception!

Young children can’t consent as they don’t understand what they are consenting to imo. My friends and family see my children so they don’t need photos and those that live on other continents get an occasional email or WhatsApp.

All the parents I know generally fall into 3 categories over this issue - those who post absolutely nothing and are frankly a bit preachy about those that dare to post pictures of their children.

Then those that post the occasional picture varying in frequency but is usually for a specific reason such as their birthday or because it's a really nice/funny photo.

Then there are those who post multiple random photos daily or even hourly....

Both extremes seem a bit crazy to me so I'm firmly in the middle group - probably posted 4-5 photos of DD on social media in the last 12mths

Also to add, I don't allow family to post photos of him (to be fair, neither sets of parents or anything are on FB, but my brothers etc are). I also don't consent to photos being online when he's in school etc.

I have to ask, the posters that care so much about fb, WhattsApp, messenger etc having copyright to your photos - why does it matter so much to you? I couldn't care less - they will have billions of photos why do they care about yours in particular? Not that I put that many up but they are hardly special in any way apart from to me.

Why would you post photos like that though? I'm fortunate enough to know no one who does!

no. too many dangers on the internet. friend is a a cyber crimes detective and some of the things hes told me re kids pictures are harrowing.

^^ and i dont allow family to put pictures up of them either on social media.

Why would you post photos like that though? I'm fortunate enough to know no one who does!

I'm not sure what photos you mean exactly but I know of a lot of people who post their children's entire lives publicly in order to get likes/drive traffic&interest towards their lifestyle blog, parenting courses (the irony!), natural beauty products business etc..

Yes but nothing embarrassing, I wouldn’t do that. I know some parents post extremely personal pics of their children which is odd. I also have a private Instagram so not many people can see them anyway, I don’t have any other social media.

I don't, none at all. I believe that photos of my Son are his property to put on social media or not when he understands the consequences.

I remember reading about a study a few years ago where children as young as 7 were developing anxiety based on their parents posting photos of them on facebook.

I don't judge other parents on there choice though :)

@LegoPeopleEverywhere I was referring to the post just before mine about posting photos of children covered in poo. I don't know anyone who does that.

@QueenOfTheAndals

Ah I see! I don't think I've ever seen that either, thank fuck!

I have a private Instagram which I use, but only accept followers I know, and select ones at that, as so many family/friends are a long way away. Even then it's only select photos.

I don't post to FB. I get cross when others do, and ask them to take them down.

I cringe at friends who post everything.

The fact timehop uses my Google photos to look back, means that I still see the memories

God def no pics of baby poo yuk. I have a few holiday snaps, family lunch, birthday maybe that's it. All set to friends only. Never use Instagram just fb - chuckling at the idea of anyone following me as a blogger

Occasionally on Facebook,but only with their agreement. I wouldn't want anyone posting pics of me all over the internet without my consent and my kids deserve that same respect.

Why does it matter so much to you?, I see putting pictures of your dc on fb as an active choice, so it's more of a case of why does it matter to you so much that they're up there? If people ask to see pictures of my dc, friends/family abroad etc, I can send then some. We obviously have loads of pictures of our dc, if they decide they want to post them all when they're older then they can, but they can't 'un-do' it, IYSWIM, for lots of dc they are on fb before they are even born and that can't be changed. I have had someone refer to my dc as 'secrets' because they aren't on fb, ridiculous!

I never do. It's up to them what personal information and photos they choose to post publicly on the internet, so that means waiting until they are old enough to do it themselves. And they then become the property of that site, so simply deleting them on request later in life isn't really good enough of they grow up to feel strongly about it. For context I don't use social media anyway, DH does very sparingly.

I don't judge other people for doing this though. I think it's just one of those things that everyone has very different views on.

I don't.

My daughter has a congenital condition which is physically obvious. I posted a picture of her on Facebook and it was taken by someone else and used fraudulently to get 'likes'.

Even after it was forcibly removed by FB, it had been seen and commented on by thousands.

A photo can be screenshotted and used by anyone. I haven't posted any of my children since then. It's not fair on them, as they haven't given permission for their images to be shared with thousands of people.

DD is a teen so I always check with her if the photograph is okay beforehand. When she was smaller I did similar anyway - she doesn't mind having her childhood photographs sound. There weren't any embarrassing ones anyway from what I can remember - not likely to have posted them.

I post them on a private account where I do know all the people I am friends with and who I know. I know that sometimes they can get further but there is nothing on there I would be concerned about. Although I use Facebook a fair bit we are quite aware of our usage and who can see things, etc.

Facebook does not own your photographs:

www.howtogeek.com/304037/does-facebook-own-my-photos/

It is illegal in Italy

No I dont