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?

I don't often post photos of my children on social media. I'd be lying if I said I never do, but it's once in a blue moon.

My setting are all friends only (and yes, I know that if someone is determined to see a photo they can find ways round it, but the chances of anyone being desperate to see my specific children are very slim). But I'm bemused by adults saying they'd be embarrassed or humiliated as grown ups by their parents having shared bog standard baby photos 20 years earlier. I know I caution my teenage daughter to be very wary of what she posts because photos are permanent. But when people say 'potential employers always check your Facebook profile these days' I think there's a difference between posting a picture clearly off your tits and hinting at having been on a three day long bender and someone seeing a photo from 20 years ago. I don't think HR departments up and down the country are having meetings saying 'we're withdrawing the job offer we made to Sally Smith. Found her online and discovered that she used to be a baby. And worse, she went on to an acting career that she left off her CV - she was an angel in a nativity play'.

I get it if your child is adopted and you can’t post their face for safeguarding reasons but I know this baby isn’t adopted. I wasn’t even judging her, I just came across the photos and wondered why.

@HappiD

I get it if your child is adopted and you can’t post their face for safeguarding reasons but I know this baby isn’t adopted. I wasn’t even judging her, I just came across the photos and wondered why.

I don't post any photos of my children online, they have a right to privacy and to make their own decision about it. One of my DCs has always said no to photos on social media so there have never been any at all, they don't use social media themselves. My two young adult DCs prefer not to have photos posted on there, certainly I would not post their photo without consent.

I'm with you. Completely understand the valid reasons why parents don't want to share photo of their kids. Also putting stickers over kids in a group photo. But I do think it's odd to post a photo of just your child with their face covered. I don't see the point, either write a post if you want to record a memory or don't post at all.

I've stopped posting photos of my kids on social media. Like most of my friends, posting on FB about family life seems to be a waning trend for many reasons. And it's easy to ping photos to the grandparents on WhatsApp or whatever.

"If you look at family vloggers or big family Instagram accounts, the majority of the followers and viewers are adult males."

Is there proof of that claim?

To be fair I'm going off a video I watched by a campaigner called thedadchallengepodcast, where he downloaded the analytics for some of the biggest family vloggers in the US and put the results up in the video, and it was a recurring theme. So no, it's not a scientific piece of research and he didn't download them for every single family vlogger and produce complete statistics for the entire industry. However the ones he did find were enough to frighten me.

Also, youtube in the US demonetised or disabled the comments on any videos including children because there was an influx of a huge number of comments on family vlogs from the online paedophile community, and the public and their advertisers (rightly) complained about it.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanmac/youtube-disables-comments-videos-kids-pedophiles-self-harm

I think there maybe 3 pictures of my children on Facebook and none of them were posted by me! And I have asked to them to be taken off and un tagged myself from them.

I have once posted a picture of them - we were on a dog walk and they had their backs to the camera but that post was more about the dogs!!

I’m a very private person and I don’t like the idea of my children being on social media. I don’t get why people post their kids full stop.

I always tick the no box to photos of the kids being shared on the school Instagram/Facebook pages as well, I know of one child who can’t due also due to being adopted.

I also don’t share pictures of birthday parties etc. Call me cynical but I don’t trust it.

Can anyone shed any light on the stickers thing and wether they can be removed or not. My understanding is it is a myth. I don't use the stickers but I'm just curious.