Blurring out school logo

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I get it if you are famous/have a public social media account etc.

But.

With small, private setting Facebook accounts I just can't see the logic?

Honestly if i really wanted to know the school your child is at (if I don't already due to conversation) the it's very easy for me to find out by searching by the town and uniform colour anyway.

Or am I missing something?

If people are that batshit precious, then they shouldn't post pictures of their children on social media!

We had a guest speaker into our school once, who found a picture online of one of our students in our uniform, and showed us just how much information he can find out from it. It was actually scary! Now he was tech trained so knew exactly how to find out information, but still! It was mental! Going forward I would always blur out the logo. Yes accounts can be set to private and you would hope that only your close friends would see it, but you never know who could end up with access to it!

Safeguarding, e.g. there may be a close relative who is not allowed access to a child but wants it. A mutual friend may screenshot the Facebook page and send it over. Such things happen. But yes, in this circumstance perhaps best not to be posting pics at all.

I think what you’re missing is that if you’re sharing photos online, it is never private. There’s very little difference between sharing on your own account with privacy settings and sharing publicly.

So just because people want to post a pic it means they should announce what school their child goes to as well? Why should they?

Ps I don't post school pics at all, I just send to the people I want to see them like grandparents.

Or am I missing something?

Yes, you're missing something.

Pictures get shared. Once they're created some control is lost.

By posting a blurred logo, one of the risks (identifying or locating a child from an image) is reduced.

Once you share an image, someone can onward share or post elsewhere, or an account can be hacked. Removing geographical details is easy to do and means if the picture were put elsewhere it would not include the school name.

Thanks some things I hadn't considered.

Although I still have some confusion.

Do you all also refuse for school to put photos of your children on their website/social media?

As my same family members covering the logos have shared many school posts/videos with the kids in?

How would you know to find that child in that school without already following the page because you KNOW that child is in that school?

In our area there are 5 schools, they wear red, green, royal blue navy blue and brown respectively.

If you know the area you can tell the school from the uniform colour, with or without the logo.

I blur mine. Because not everyone on my Facebook is a friend as such. Some is to do with work and although I could limit them the other yet friendly work people would see it and become an issue.

Also I just don’t want everyone knowing exactly where in my city I live. Most city’s have 4/5 primary schools the exact same colour so it doesn’t really pinpoint my location.

Then there is people who will be ooo didn’t see the picture Don’t shared. Then it could get back to family I’m no contact with. No blur the logo. Harms nobody.

photos get shared, Facebook accounts can get compromised. Apart from the obvious security for the kid, it can make working out where you live harder which can be a good thing online.

I mean i think posting photos of your children on sm is bad parenting anyway but at least blurring the school uniform gives them some kind of safety / protection 🤷🏻‍♀️

I just did a Google search just based on approximate location and colour of school tie and found the correct school my nephew attends.

If you are concerned, just the logo may not be sufficient

I don't post any pictures of my children on social media, but I allow their schools to post their picture, as long as they are group shots and the child is not named alongside the photo.

Them appearing on a school photo only shows that they are a pupil of that school. Them appearing on my social media would show that they are my child. It's a different amount of identifying information.

There are no specific safeguarding risks for my children, I just don't want them to have a social media presence for general safeguarding reasons.

This is a good point, but I think people who blur the logo are mostly concerned with the photos being stolen by an unknown party, not someone who knows the family and therefore already knows what town they're from? I might be wrong though.

I do it because I fled an abuser. I don’t share where I live with anyone. My friends list isn’t very big but my abuser has got to me through my family and friends before. And as I now live in another country, no you couldn’t google colour and town if you were on my friends list because very few people know where I live. I don’t like local pages and I don’t have friends from my current location. I use Facebook to stay connected to my family and old friends.

The school sharing photos of most students is different. It’s usually a group shot and they won’t name the children. You know your work colleague’s little boy is blonde but there’s 5 little blond boys in the photos, so which is your colleagues?

Vs

Little Jimmy looks so grown up on his first day in year 2 with a logo of the school showing.

I share almost no pics of kids online (maybe one every couple of years), and none in uniform at all... And I literally have about 20 FB friends and a locked profile.

I can understand it in some circumstances (PP have outlined a few, including escaping abuse and moving far away). Otherwise, it's a bit pointless but ESPECIALLY pointless if everyone knows the town/area you live in and the school uniform is a distinctive colour or style.

Nothing makes me as worried as when parents post their kids all over SM and include clues as to what school they go to etc.

Social Media is a peadophiles playground.

I’ve worked in prisons where seemingly nice family guys, use SM (or their wives) as a way to find these kids.

Imagine a peado being able to tell a child the name of their parent and siblings etc. The child is going to instantly trust him.

I’ve also worked with many women who’ve fled an abusive ex and it only takes 1 of their SM friends to accidentally show someone else a photo and then that person can tell the ex exactly where that child goes to school.

It’s scary how much information you can get off SM, even a private one.
It’s just not worth the risk.

Perhaps they have only just learnt about the dangers of SM which is why they’ve only just started blurring it out.
Its better late than never.

I don't blur the logos out on my children's pictures on Facebook. But then again my Facebook friends only consist of people i have been good friends with, or worked together for a long time. I don't have "acquaintances" on there.