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Do you cover kids' faces on fb?

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JustBanPlasticAndSubsidiseTheTrainsAlready · 04/08/2023 14:46

I've got about 75 fb friends so not many.

A friend of mine always covers or blurs kids' faces on photos she puts on fb. She has about 200 friends.

I just wondered what the consensus is - YABU - yes I also cover my kid's face
YANBU - no I don't.

I don't cover my kids' faces, because I consider that anyone on fb I don't trust with an image of my kid should not be a fb friend.

To give a full picture, my friend is happy to whatsapp a pic of her kids to me, without the blur.

Am I looking at it wrong? Just curious.

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llamadrama16 · 09/08/2023 18:06

I didn't used to, but I have recently gone back and removed all pics of my kids from FB/IG and won't be posting them anymore (unless from the back/when they're unidentifiable). It's so unlikely, but the increase of fake *orn being made with AI with faces from photos online has really put the heebie jeebies up me. It was one thing back in the day when the very, very rare danger was kidnapping, now your kids can be given a huge fake online footprint and it can fuck their lives up. Not a risk worth taking.

nonmerci99 · 09/08/2023 19:29

Twoleftlegs · 04/08/2023 15:56

No I don’t, because I care about my children’s digital privacy. If they happen to be in an image I want to post, I cover them.

it’s very little to do with having 1000s of Facebook friends and some of them being paedophiles and more about data and the potential of AI to use this in harmful ways. I also don’t trust Meta to safeguard data properly. Your ‘friends’ accounts can also be compromised at any time.

mark Zuckerberg covers his kids faces once they are a certain age- and I can tell you, kidnapping risks are only a small part of it!

privacy will be at a premium in the future. I’m leaving it up to my kids on making the choice themselves to have a digital footprint.

i already have one- the damage is done for me. Honestly don’t know why people are so desperate to put their kids out there. Create a signal or telegram group for family if you want to share photos.

Well said. This is also my approach.

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