i couldn’t find a better section to post this under, so sorry if it’s in the wrong place.
so we are quite strict with online safety with our little ones, we don’t post anything about them, we haven’t posted their full names, date of births etc sensitive information and rarely post photos.
I was talking to my MIL about it and she doesn’t understand it all, she said what harm could that possibly be. I told her someone could use this information for example at the park by talking to her and give the impression they know her or her family by knowing information about her. It could also be information she uses on her passwords or security questions when she’s older and if it’s online it would be easier for someone to hack into her accounts.
she said but it’s just on facebook to your friends, I said but sometimes the security settings change and it can appear to more people and you don’t necessarily know who will be having access to that information.
she said I suppose someone could try to go to her school and tell them to give her to them, we both agreed the school shouldn’t and wouldn’t give her to them- which made her think again that I was just nuts with all this and there’s just no potential danger.
MIL is not that great with with phones anyways, and really can’t see any danger with sharing information online. Does anyone have any other examples of why sharing sensitive information and photos of your child online may be a bag idea?