To Share/Not To Share Images of DC Online?

[BabyBunnyMama]

I have shared a few pictures of my DD since she was born (now 8 months) but always been cautious - nothing that would embarrass her etc. However starting to feel uneasy about it so have started removing them now and just keeping up my monthly pictures of her with her milestone sticker and a couple of her during family days out. Going forward I think I will continue like this - or stop posting on social media all together.

Just curious how others feel about sharing images of their DC?

We haven’t shared any of DS who’s 2.5, Facebook friends I haven’t seen for years (mostly old uni friends) probably have no idea he exists. There are one or two of me wearing the baby in a sling, so they might have guessed

I do not want to share pictures of my baby. I have no idea how family are going to react when I tell them this too.

YANBU. I think more and more of us are becoming cautious about this these days and rightly so. Once you put something online it is potentially out there indefinitely and you won’t necessarily have the power to delete it if you change your mind.

Never shared pics of dc. I think it’s unfair on her later on (I wouldn’t thank my mum for it now) and in reality I think she’s wonderful but I doubt my fb friends are interested.

I didn't post any pics of dd as she grew up. I wanted to leave it for her to choose when she was older. I'm quite private and have never posted pictures of myself. She's now 17and turned out to be the complete opposite of me; she's posted countless selfies over the last couple of years. But I'm glad that she's had the option to choose what to post rather than me making the decision for her.

I do but I have a small friend list that consists of friends and family. I didn’t for the first few years, I do now and it’s the only way my family who live abroad get to see pics of my kids. I’m strict with my security settings too. Each to their own on this.

I do one milestone picture of baby DS each month on Facebook (very private settings only) for friends and family. That will stop when he's one, and I've asked family not to share his pics. I've never put his photos on my twitter or Instagram.

I think sharenting is an awful violation of a child's right to privacy.

I don't share anything, and I never have done. They're 12 and 10 now, and can post themselves on SM once they're old enough to understand the implications.
A good friend of mine posts stuff on FB several times daily, video footage mainly. There must be quite literally hundreds of thousands of hours worth of footage of her dd online, and I don't like it if I'm honest. Not my business, so I'd never say anything, but I do wonder what her dd will think in years to come.

I have close family spread out over the world, but I email photos to them directly from time to time. My dm lives 350 miles in one direction of the UK, PiLs live 400 miles in the other - they also get photos via email, as they don't see the DGC frequently.

I don't put any pics on FB etc. Partly for privacy reasons, but also I think any FB friends would be bored to tears of yet another pic of DC looking adorable!

There is an app called cluster that we use to share pics with extended/overseas family members. It is a closed group so only those invited to see pics can see them and they would have to choose to look on the app, rather than having their feed full of smiley baby pics that they can't avoid!

Nope, no pics at all, ever. I have posted very occasional, hilariously-knowing toddler quotes, but don't do that now either (or really even post on SM myself at all any more). DD1 is nearly 7 now, and very thoughtful and inquiring, and I can imagine her being completely outraged if she discovered that I had exhibited and archived her entire childhood on the internet. So glad I didn't!

I’ve never put pictures of my own children or any other children online. I’d email to close relatives at most.

I never put photos up. The only thing I do (fairly frequently) is upload photos or clips of DD to Instagram stories, then I have a "highlights" reel of them all. I figure I can delete these quickly and easily if I decide to.

My IG is private anyway with not many followers, and you can lock down the privacy of stories further too, so this seems like a sensible outlet.

I put occasional photos up. Very few now though.

We plan to post occasional family photos on social media, and don't mind if our DC are included in photos that others post - but we won't be posting embarrassing updates, photos of DC just for the sake of posting a photo of DC, or make it a regular occurrence.

My social media is a public page as it's an integral part of my job, which does complicate things for me. DC certainly will not heavily feature in their own right, but I don't want to have to make a constant effort to avoid showing their face etc if I want to share something involving them/us as a family. (I am not a family/lifestyle blogger or anything like that - and wholeheartedly disagree with using children for profit in that way - but I am fairly open about my own life online and to an extent that will extend to my life as a mother). I'm saying all of this but have felt ridiculously protective since I've been pregnant and have only posted once with anything to do with it, so I suspect I'll feel differently once baby is actually here.

If your settings are on private and only have people you actually know in RL on Social Media than I will be fine. I like his FB does Memory throwbacks of photos I have put up that I forgotten about.

I don't until they are old enough for their own social media accounts and then only with consent, two of my DCs say no photos online and one says only when they have agreed.

I think there's a grand total of 14 photos of my son on social media, he turns 6 months on Thursday, so there will be 15 when I post his monthly.

I'm not a big fan of sharing his photos because he has no choice.

My nan lives in France, she came back for a week last July to meet him, she only saw him once as I didn't want to leave the house with a 3 week old, it was during that really hot spell and hit 45 degrees where I am, she came to my house for half an hour. Whenever she speaks to my mum she moans I don't post enough photos of him (also to my grandad, my aunt and my brother) but doesn't say anything to me...

We post photos frequently and don't get what the fuss is about. If social media had hypothetically been around long enough, I certainly wouldn't be bothered if my parents' pages had photos of baby me decades back in their timeline. In fact, I'd welcome that bit of visual history.

I chose to just not show full face for either of my children. It’s a bit awkward when you start baby classes as a lot round me presume they can share pictures (imo it should be don’t share until given expressed permission but 🤷‍♀️) and some family members will always try to flout it but generally it’s been accepted :)

We don’t because of safeguarding issues in the family. It really annoys me when other parents share things eg Christmas concert footage when they have expressly been asked not to.

I put up a few in DS first year (about 1 per month) but then stopped. The only one of DD is a birth announcement. The DC are in my profile pic but v small, you can't really see DDs face and DS isn't very clear. There won't be any more. No one cares, except immediate family. I share with them via whatsapp.

I sometimes post pictures of DD but my settings are private and I only have people I'm actually friends with on Facebook (about 100 in total).

I have a picture of me my husband and little one that I out up because I liked me and my husband in it. I then edited the picture so a heart covered my little ones face. Thereby obscuring him on SM bit still meaning it was a nice picture. No one commented on the heart. People that didn't know I'd had the baby (not posted on SM) congratulated me.

Just cut down your audience to proper friends and family only.