...to think that people who post a picture of their child as their Facebook profile are weird?

[Mouette]

I'm not taling about people posting a picture of themselves WITH their children as their Facebook profile picture, nor about people who put pictures of their DC on Facebook. But people who put a picture of their DC (alone) AS their profile picture. Is that not weird? It's as if they had no identity of their own left... And generally: AIBU to think that there's a lot of boasting on Facebook? (as in: look at me, I've got such beautiful children and such an interesting life). Opinions?

I do not put photos/ let anyone put photos of my children on the internet full stop. But I don't care what other people do with their kids

You could always set your privacy settings so that nobody can look at your photos apart from people who are your friends already...I'm not even searchable on there.

poshsinglemum I second that!!

Flgihtattendant - thats right.

alot of my friends didnt realise you could set it up so only your friends or certain friends can see your pics.

i have it set up so that only my close list of friends and family can see my pics.

I change my profile picture not for the benefit of people searching for me but the friends I already have on my list. Usually it will have a personal reason for changing it so the dc's birthdays I will have a picture up of them, I have even put pictures of my parents up too. My anniversary my wedding picture goes on and so did my new puppy. Why not??? Why the need to analyise every little thing?????? People can do whatever they want there are no set rules...

I have my DD1 (AGED 2.5 YRS) as my profile picture. I am immensely proud of her and she is my greatest achievement (apart from dd2 but I'll have her up alternately) and I think it's unfair to say it's weird. I think it's perfectly natural if you want to..if you don't that's fair enough too.

My DS changes his appearance more often than me and everyone on my friends list knows what I look like while many haven't seen him for a while.

YABU

i have a pic of my DD on my fb profile. i only let friends and family see it. I hate photos of myself.
I dont see the problem if you dont want to do it then dont, but dont judge others that do.

I think people hide behind their children who, understandably, they think are beautiful. I think people who change their profile picture all the time are vain, people who title web albums 'look at my BEAUTIFUL children' (as an ex friend of mine did. People who hated me at school who want to be my friend, the competition about who can get the most friends, idiots who post pictures pissed up a lot at 35+ and my biggest loathe.......

People who try to write profound crap in their status, I wish they would fuck off.

I have a three yr old photo of ds as my profile. Simple reason is I don't have photos of me. Single parent who holidays with ds and no one to take pictures of me. Never gave it a thought. I don't have personal info on my profile and only allow friends to access.

YABU.

I have a picture of 15 week old Dd3 as my profile. People often ask me for a new picture and its a good method for lots of people to see her. My profile is private so only my friends can see.

posie ~ and these people are your friends???

Blossom, these are friends before I realised to be a little more clever would be wise in accepting 'friends'.

YANBU - I don't let people put pictures up of my DS on the internet for simple reason that once that pic is up there, the website can do whatever they like with it.

I worked in the media and have known companies use pics of children in brochures, etc cos they own pictures uploaded onto the site and it's a free source of images. Nothing sinister, but I don't want my DS being used by any company.

Also, on FB, if you are tagged by someone else, their friends can see it no matter what your privacy settings.

Like KimTTS said - others can do as they please but it's not for me.

MG x

I only know one person who does this. She is indescribably hideous and her son is reasonably normal-looking (a bit piggy).

Lots of my friends have pictures of themselves with DCs as profile pics though. I think this is because they have more photos of themselves with DCs than alone, so by law of averages are more likely to find one where they look half-decent.

I don't think they are weird. But when I see an old school friend who only has a pic of her kid, not her, I tend to think 'bet she is fugly now'.

No, to me it says "I don't exist as a person now I've had kids". Some people do live life by proxy through their kids though.

YABU and stupid. I have a picture of one of my dc's or the other or a boat or a beef wellington. I just don't like having my photo taken and even less so seeing it in fron of me while I facebook (check my farm and mafia).

I've not lost my identity and I'm not pig ugly. I'm just not so vain as to take a pouty, sexy photo with a webcam and post that.

I have now changed my profile picture to my DD

YANBU.
I also find it weird that people put photos of their childen on Facebook for anyone to see.
And yes, I also agree Facebook posts on the whole are self-asbsorbed. "I did this, I did that..." So fecking what if you've just had a bath?
Boring, boring, boring. Is this really all people have to do? I mean, how do they find the time for a start? Thank goodness I have a life.

YANBU. I think it's wierd too.

yabu

they can do what they like

i could put a pair of pants on my profile and if you disapproved then ya boo sucks

meh