To have a picture of me and my daughter as my profile picture?

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There’s a lovely picture of me and baby DD that I would love to have as my profile picture. We have a lot of friends and family who have not met her yet. Up until now I have only posted the back of her head or where her face can’t be seen, nothing identifying and very infrequently. I don’t want her to have a big digital footprint and I think the advance of AI is a bit scary, hence the reasons for not posting so far - until she’s old enough to choose and make an informed decision. My question is, is an occasional picture with another adult still reasonable? Especially at the baby stage, where their features are constantly changing anyway? DH thinks it’s fine as long as it’s not pics of her on her own. Using here as a poll to see.

yabu: I wouldn’t post it for the reasons you’ve mentioned

yanbu: yes I would think occasionally it’s fine

Would you show me your face, tell me your date of birth, full name and the schools you attended?

If not, you're applying double standards.

I’ve no understanding of people posting a photo of the back of their child’s head, why bother posting a photo at all? I wouldn’t use a photo with my child as a profile photo.

I wouldn't post my children online, and definitely not as a profile picture that any one can see

Admittedly I post on their birthday...not with their full name, one is a nickname also. And I haven't ever tagged school or where we live or where we live!
Also I am happy to show my face and happy to show where I work and my birthday!
I am talking about posting twice a year max ....stop clutching your pearls! 😁

Your baby, your decision.

I chuckled at the pearl clutching comment when you're showing remarkable levels of naivety.

You think that posting a picture of your kids in their uniform isn't identifiable because you didn't tag the school? Bless your cotton socks.

A computer would be able to take a pretty good guess based on the combo, any logo on show etc.

If you've posted photos of them anywhere outside, here's an app that'll use AI to give someone GPS coordinates based on the background. https://picarta.ai/

Just because you don't tag your home address, or the school, it isn't private and this is the software in its infancy, it's developing at incredible pace.

There are facebook executives on record saying they will never upload their children to the Internet, I'm sure they've no idea what they're talking about rollseyes

I've got 3 and I have never posted a picture of them online.

I send pictures to friends and family on whatsapp.

I don't want people I'm not close with at all, including my ex bullies, to look at pictures of my baby ( which could happen with a profile pic).

I also want to respect my children's privacy.

On top of that, with AI, there's pedophiles who go online, download innocent pictures of children and manipulate them to be something different. So I'm extra cautious.

However, that's just me. Everyone is different- you do you

I think the only person qualified to choose whether someone puts a photo of them on social media, is the person themself and obviously she's way too young to make that choice.

And the people who haven't met your baby, still won't have met your baby no matter what profile photo you use.

I think baby pics are okay. I don't post pictures of mine now that they are school age. Mainly because they don't even like having their pictures taken so would hate the idea of them being posted online.

Put an emoji over her face in the picture if it bothers/worries you so much?

I have to do child safeguarding training as part of my job. The things I have learnt there about AI using images of children from social media to generate abuse images mean I never post photos of my children online, even on a private profile or if they are unidentifiable.