Posting photos on Facebook but covering face...

[HappiD]

Not an AIBU just posting for traffic.
I’m intrigued as to why someone would upload photos to FB of their baby but cover their face with stickers (as in Facebook stickers not real ones) I’ve never come across it before.

I know some people don’t like putting their children on FB but they either don’t post any pictures of their children or don’t have Facebook at all.

I’m not judging the lady in question, I’m just curious as to why. Is this a thing?

Oh yes I know several people who do this. The ones I know like to put it with long meandering posts trying to illustrate what wonderful parents/human beings they are with both the contents of the post and their non putting their kids faces on social media.

Either do it or don’t.

My friend does this because her children are adopted, so I've always assumed it's for safety/identity protection reasons.

@BoJoHoNo

My friend does this because her children are adopted, so I've always assumed it's for safety/identity protection reasons.

So just don't post pictures at all.

The sticker over the face thing is very "look at me! I'm such a wonderful, protective mother".

The only time I’ve really seen it is on groups where maybe they need to post a picture for illustrative purposes (I’m thinking sling or car seat fitting for example) but wouldn’t otherwise post pictures of their children. Do people do this on their personal pages too? That’s just bizarre!

Yes! I wonder the same thing. Just don't post them 🤷‍♀️

This gets me annoyed too. The woman I know does it and says things like "sorry guys I'm still not putting baby's face on social media" so why out a photo of its body and limbs then?

And then as her children get older they are all plastered on fb.

The only time I have seen this is someone is putting a photo of say sports day or nativity and other children can be seen on the photo top so they cover there faces it’s bizzare otherwise 😳

I know someone who does this and I asked her why she said she wants to share them with family but not make her child visible online. When I queried that she could send them privately via messenger she looked at me like I had 2 heads.

Even more strange is that she even covers her childs head with a sticker when they are facing away from the camera e.g looking into the sea Which baffles me completely because without the sticker all you would be able to see is the back of her kids head.

So just don't post pictures at all. The sticker over the face thing is very "look at me! I'm such a wonderful, protective mother".

I've never asked her as it's none of my business and honestly it's not something I've thought about in any great detail. If I had to hazard a guess, I would expect after 10 years of not being able to conceive and very much wanting children she just wants to be able to look back at particular memories/milestones the same way as her peers. I personally don't see it as attention seeking, but don't have any skin in the game either way.

Jumping straight to the point here. It may upset many on here who have their babies' and young children's photos on the net but peadophiles could easily be trawling social media profiles. Yes we know they can not access those children but they can enjoy the images.

O know someone who does this. Would understand of it was a group shot but she was hiding little Johnny's face but it'll be just a picture of Johnny except all you can see if his body. I don't get it

@Wendyhause

Jumping straight to the point here. It may upset many on here who have their babies' and young children's photos on the net but peadophiles could easily be trawling social media profiles. Yes we know they can not access those children but they can enjoy the images.

But they can access these too, and it's even more "just a body" too

I do this in sewing groups if I want to show an outfit I made. I don't post my kids otherwise.
I couldn't summon up the will to hate on those that do though, faces covered or otherwise. Mumsnet is such a hateful place 😂

I find this so attention seeking and pathetic. Like oh look here but just know that my baby is too precious for anyone to see their face.

I don’t let people post photos of my DS on any social media unless all you can see is his back. If he’s in a group photo then I insist it is taken down/not put up or his face is covered. He’s a child at the end of the day, and has a right to online privacy until he’s old enough to decide if he wants his image slapped all other the internet for eternity. I think people are too blasé about online privacy. If my parents put photos up of me when I was a child, especially embarrassing ones passed off as “cute” I’d be really angry about it. I’m glad I was allowed the freedom to grow up without having my image posted online without my consent.

Jesus, people really like to moan about any tiny thingdon't they? If you don't like it, just unfollow them or get off social media.

Privacy, my son is adopted so I will not post his face, real name or birthday anywhere. Sometimes we do something and its too awkward to crop him, such as the first photo of our puppy.

School also pop an emoji type face over his when they post group pictures, they once accidentally picked an angry face emoji which looked funny in a group of smiling children.

I saw someone doing it because their family hadn’t been introduced to the baby. Makes sense in the adoption cases but otherwise I think people just copy z list celebrities. I’d just not post if I was that concerned.

@Wendyhause

Jumping straight to the point here. It may upset many on here who have their babies' and young children's photos on the net but peadophiles could easily be trawling social media profiles. Yes we know they can not access those children but they can enjoy the images.

I think the point of this thread is 'why post at all then'. I never put photos of my child on fb with or without stickers.

Also you can have (as I do) such tight security that it suits your needs. And of course as a pp poster said just send photos directly to those people you actually trust and want to see the pictures.

Not as bad as someone I know who posts group family pictures where her kids are all standing with their backs to the camera so their faces can't be seen!

I know somebody who does this whose daughter is adopted

@PrtScn

I don’t let people post photos of my DS on any social media unless all you can see is his back. If he’s in a group photo then I insist it is taken down/not put up or his face is covered. He’s a child at the end of the day, and has a right to online privacy until he’s old enough to decide if he wants his image slapped all other the internet for eternity. I think people are too blasé about online privacy. If my parents put photos up of me when I was a child, especially embarrassing ones passed off as “cute” I’d be really angry about it. I’m glad I was allowed the freedom to grow up without having my image posted online without my consent.

Presumably tho you don't post individual shots of them tho so people can only see their bodies?

I've done this before. I didn't used to and then I had a very nasty racist comment about my daughter. I had my profile picture as me holding her and I made a comment about how awful it was about refugees drowning in the sea on an article, and some absolute arzehole said "well you would say that, sat there with your brown baby who will grow up to look nothing like you and fit nowhere. Poor child"

So now if I post any photos of us publicly, the kids faces are covered. Shouldn't have to do that but some people are dickheads

I never understand why on fb groups people scratch over their faces when posting a picture of an outfit they’ve bought (for example) but I can click on their profile and see their face and usually their whole life.

If paedophiles want to look at children with clothes on they don't need to trawl Facebook do they? They can just look out of the window or get a copy of next directory or something. That is a bizarre argument!

I guess people who cover the faces either have to be careful for some safeguarding reason but are otherwise the kind of people who would put pictures of the child online, or they see why it's a bad idea but are so desperate to still do it that they cover the faces.

Covering the faces may be a bit odd but at least that child won't be identifiable later in life, so their privacy is preserved to an extent

Personally I don't think any pictures should go up online unless they are public type photos such as school class photos, with child decently dressed and aware they are in public and being photographed. Until children are old enough to decide for themselves anyway.