Do you post pic of your children's faces online / judge people who do / don't and why ?

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I occasionally post pics of my kids on FB and instagram.

Maybe once or twice a year. I occasionally do stories too. Maybe 3 to 4 times a year.

I decided that if it wasn't too often, it would be fine.

Some people never post at all or some blur out the faces.

Others post daily.

What's your stance on this and what are you reasons for posting / not posting / blurring out faces ?

Former neighbour of mine has an open instagram with hundreds of pictures of her daughter.

Its so irresponsible.

Its a dark world out there and children's images should not be online ever. If anyone doubts it, there was a radio programme about deepfake AI porn not so long ago, it was deeply concerning.

I judge people who post other people's photos online without their permission.

Children can't give informed consent so IMO parents shouldn't do it.

It's only ever done for the parent's benefit and never for the child's.

The same parents will be trying to convince their kids looks don't matter, whilst enjoying all the love hearts and 'gawjuss hun' comments on their DCs behalf.

I never post my kids images online and yes I judge people who do use their children's faces to get attention.

i work in early years though and husband is an ex police officer so im
more aware than most of how dangerous it is. I also have seen forst hand how easy it is to take those stickers off.

My DC are late 20s and so there was no social media when they were born. I've never posted pictures of them and they don't post pics of themselves other than on LinkedIn.
One is a teacher and very aware of the misuse of images (particularly by teenagers)

I’ve always posted photos of my 3 online, it’s lovely to have those memories to look back on. My kids are 31, 19 and 16 and have no objections to it. Now a days it’s the dog I have more photos of

Perhaps once a year. I don’t post my own photos/updates though. The world has changed. I don’t like social media.

Nearly everyone else I know posts extensively about themselves and their children!!

Never have and never will. I fully respect my DC’s privacy. No one online has any business seeing what my kids are up to.

I have done occasionally over the years. My dc are 16 and 18 and have no objection. They like seeing Facebook memory photos of themselves when they were little, when they pop up on my FB feed. I would never post anything private or intimate, they are just normal family photos and only shared with friends (I don't befriend random people on social media).

To share their adventures,but keep their face out of sight so dodgy people can't identify them in real life.

Never.

Not worth the risk.

Only on FB a couple of times per year where family and close friends are. Had some on insta but removed them before I made the profile public. Yes I judge all those celebs out there eg Stacey Solomon, Izzy Judd etc and all those 'insta' parents who are using their kids as complete cash cows - exploiting them to promote toys, gadgets, clothing ranges etc. Just wrong on so many levels...

This Deutsche Telecom ad is worth watching.

I don’t share any pictures of my kids on SM. Maybe over-cautious but none of us know what might be possible with technology in future (who would have guessed 20 years ago what can be done now?) Better safe than sorry. Plenty of other ways to share things with your friends (most of whom aren’t that interested anyway 😉)

Not sure that “judge” is the right word but I do find it surprising how much some people share.

I have maybe 40 Facebook friends, all of whom I know personally, and my profile is set so only those people can see it. I post pictures of my kids around fifteen times a year or so, and honestly? I’m not worried about deepfake porn. Somebody could secretly take a picture of my kids out in public and use that for deepfake porn, but I’m not going to quit taking them out in public.

Just my 2 pence worth, but it's about limiting images being accessed by the wrong popel.

DH works in tech. Part of his team are responsible for taking down reported content. The volume of photos of children (non-sexual) that are then modified to become sexualised and essentially turned electronically into images of CSA are horrifying. The development of AI is making this even worse and enough photos can be given to AI software. The photos "teach" the software about the subject and then the AI can generate completely fabricated videos, of the child. You can see where it all ends up.

You are right, no-one will be tracking the child down. The child itself isn't harmed and likely will never know. But neither DH nor I could stomach the thought of that happening with our baby.

It is not just paedophiles that do this either. Let's face it they are not likely to know how, although you can easily access the AI software now (feel free to google - 10s of providers will come up!). But criminal gangs that also carry out online phishing scams, hacking, fraud etc dredge photos from SM en masse, process them and then sell on the generated CSA images and videos for money.

I used to, but very rarely post at all now. I also would ask permission before posting once they were able to give it. I do know a lot of people who seem to post way too much personal information and embarrassing photos of their dc, without any thought for how they’ll feel about that in the future, and I don’t know if judge is the right word, but I don’t think it’s a good thing.

I don't post pictures of my DC but I also don't generally judge people who do because I know it's normal and maybe their kids won't mind.

I do judge if the kids are undressed or crying, or if the parent is complaining about their child on SM. There's no need for that.

Because I like my friends and family to see them

Sometimes parents need support

All this is solved by having no social media. I remember life before this godawful shit was invented.

I think this is true

I personally don't post any photos of them whatsoever unless it's just the back of a head or something.

But I don't know anyone personally who's as strict as me - I do think people I know might think I'm a bit extreme but there we go.

I post pics of DD but never embarrassing ones or unclothed. She's generally the one asking me to post it. FB is locked down to Friends only.

I'll admit that in the early years of FB it didn't occur to me to hide our door number or anything like that but then everyone on my FB knows where we live anyway. I've got better about it in the last decade.

My DS has never allowed photos of his DC on there, so I don't post them, or mention them by name.

Those of you who have said their children are older and are fine about having all their pictures on social media - what would you do if they said they didn’t like it now?

I wouldn't post any more and would remove any that I had on FB.

I don't really use social media any more but I used to use FB, and I posted one hospital picture of DD1 to announce her birth, and haven't mentioned her on there since. Didn't announce DD2's birth on there at all, as I don't really use it (but still have a profile). Never used insta. I use X, but not under my real name and don't post anything personal.

I don't really understand the need to post photos of your dcs or anything else about your life, unless it's relevant to your career/politics etc. But at the same time I quite like lurking and checking other people's post (people that I know), because I'm not very sociable and wouldn't know anything about their lives otherwise.