do you tell your aupair not to post your personal detail on the internet?

[catepilarr]

i am amazed at what some aupairs post in their blogs - just bumped into one that has a full agency questionnairs filled by the family on her website, including address, emails, telephone numbers, description of the house etc. i know other aps who post detailed photographs of the house together with the location. i would be horriefied if i was a host family.

Tbh I would ring either the family or the agency and tell them. I'm sure most employers wouldn't even think about saying don't post our details because they would think it was obvious not to post details!

When I was an AP I became friends with a few nannies. We added each other on facebook and I was really surprised to see how many of them had photos of their charges on their profiles.
One nanny had at least 100+ photos of the children on her profile. While I realise that nannies/APs are very involved in the lives of the children they look after and love them lots I just didn't think it was appropriate, especially when people who didn't even know the children/family were commenting on the pictures.

I took lots of photos/videos of the children but they were for the parents, not for hoards of my facebook friends to look at.
I always asked for permission to take photos and it was never a problem because the family knew I wouldn't put them all over the internet.

I am really shocked at the amount of personal information that some APs have posted and I would let their host families know.

The girl who replaced me in my previous job has a LOT of personal info on her FB and a video showing my ex-charge introducing himself which would horrify my very private employer.

I can't quite bring myself to tell ex-MB though. Maybe it's easier if it's not someone you actually know.

When we finally find a nanny we have a clause that specifically prohibits the publishing (online or in any printed publication) of any information that would make our families or homes identifiable e.g. photographs of the children, use of their/our names, photographs of our home etc.

We're teachers and don't want our family life published online for all to see. If we put photographs online e.g. Facebook we set our already private settings to mean that only specific friends can view them.

If a nanny took photographs of my children and wanted to put them online I would expect to be asked beforehand and would want reassurance that privacy settings were being used to limit who could view them. After all, I don't publish photographs of the children I teach - if I take them they are or use in school/the children's work.

I allow photos on fb provided they are not tagged, AP's privacy settings are set to friends only and none of the family details are disclosed.

APs are proud of their charges and are a long way from home and want to share with their friends back home, if it is done responsibly I don't have a problem with this.

I am a facebook friend with my au pair and have asked her not to publish pictures of my children either there or anywhere on the internet. She understands and agrees with that.