You do all realise that anyone can save the pictures off your profiles...

[CountessDracula]

don't you?

I sometimes wonder why people put their kids up for a short time, anyone can save the photos for themselves

I might put bags on their heads when they go out...

and I think a site like this would be an ideal place to look, lots of parents, bound to be pictures of young kids etc etc. easier to target specific sites than to trawl the net looking for random pictures...

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Jacksonesque veils would be very fetching, hunker.

Hey - maybe he isn't as nuts as he seems

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someone started a thread the other day (was it you CD?) saying can the photos be right click protected. can't remember the outcome
others said well they can still be printed - but I still think it would be a good idea to right click protect the photos as it does make it that much harder to use them.

but meg the internet is different. If you go out to the park you might encounter ... 10, 20 people? the chances of one of those people having dishonourable intentions is extremely remote. But billions of people surf the internet, by having a picture of your child on a website you increase the chances of it being seen by someone with sinister motives signifficantly, purely because of the fact that more people have access to it.

Oh I agree it is unlikely
but it does happen

I won't be putting my dd on here!

I dont think that not posting pictures of your kids on a parenting website that anyone and everyone has access to from the comfort of their own home is going too far.

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just look at what happened with that izzy woman. she tricked people into believing she had child modelling experience and was running a legitimate website. she got hundreds f people to send her photos of their kids. she even met some of them in person. and she was a fake. And she was in amongst us. we knew she was there, what about those who lurk, that we don't know about.

its abig bad world out there

Why would dodgy people choose a parenting site to download pictures of children? Perhaps it's because they can also access some background info on the child they see - all they have to do is run a search with some key words and the poster's name. (Shudder).

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Ohh JanH you lateral thinker you - thats why MJ did that!

I know you can take a screen dump....but not everyone does, it does make a bit harder for an opportunist.
but agree it won't stop anyone. best not to put photos up at all I suppose

And what harm could come to my child if some gross person chose to misuse her picture? She's appeared in the local paper in her gym leotard - anyone who wanted could scan that picture and do whatever they wanted with it. I don't want that to happen, obviously, but if it did, I can't see how it could harm me or my child. Am I being naive?

I believe that a lot of the people who had sent these pictures to that imposter were very concerned about what might have happened to these pictures. I guess if it doesnt bother you then do it, personally it would me.

You dont have to. But you should be aware if posting pictures on the internet. If it doesnt bother you great but for some it would.

I don't have my kids on my profile. I have a pic of my cat, dog and a SN chair.. lol, FWIW I just copied one of misdee's pics and enlarged it and it looked ok to me too. Can Tech not make it that you can't copy the pics?