Social media, have I the right to be angry

[Clairenewbie]

My Facebook is set to private and a picture of my 11 year old is my profile picture though set to friends only.
Someone wrote a comment on a status of mine and a so called friend screenshot the entire conversation and sent it to people not on my friends list. I also commented on the conversation which meant my kids picture would have been screenshot to and passed along to god knows who. I removed my kids picture straight away because I’m pretty shook up because of it. I’m now wary about putting pictures of my kids on my private Facebook.

I’m very angry and want to confront the person because it’s my kids picture being shared about.

Am I over reacting?

Don't use your kids photo as a Facebook profile. You had over all rights to content the second you put any info or images on FB. You cannot set a profile pic to private.
You'd be better to drop FB than uni. You are overreacting and have quit the wrong thing.
The standard online process for bullying is to delete the comment, block the individuals involved and unfriend them. Complain to the uni you are being bullied online, and by this person in class.

I can't quite figure out the rest of what you are saying.

typo - hand over all rights

OP, just make a note to self for the future - don’t put any photos of your child/children on the internet/social media.

Quitting uni over this seems crazy IMO.

Other people have given good advice although given your hastiness, it’s probably retrospective now.

Well what were the remarks. If others could hear them why did no one else think they were digs at you?

You’ve been told repeatedly that anyone can see your profile picture, so you have shared that pic of your dc with the world already.

I’m sorry you’re having a hard time but I feel like you’re making it worse for yourself by a) rising to some ‘digs’ in a lecture instead of just moving out of earshot and b) getting very het up about what seems to be a non point - the already public picture.

Nobody took a screenshot of a picture of your child. They took a screenshot of your status and comments which will have a minuscule version of your profile picture next to it.

The course wasn’t right, I’m working hard, studying and some cheat during tests using group chat or getting others to do the tests for them. It’s not a nice environment they aren’t there to learn, they are there to joke and mess about and disrupt class. That incident of me walking out was the last straw of a long line of many incidents. They have been spiteful and catty to not only me but a few others as well, the lecturer asked me not to leave but said she would give me a good reference because I’m a hard worker. I left with that. This group want to become social workers but the way they act I pity any adult or child that ends up near them. Not acceptable behaviour and neither is snooping about social media during class and snapshotting things they don’t agree with. I’d rather lose money than put up with that.

Chances are if you search your name, your fb profile will come up in google. There’s nothing to stop anyone blowing up your profile picture printing it and putting it on lampposts.
It’s not their fault they passed it around. It’s your fault for putting it on in the first place. You shouldn’t have got involved with the whole she said this she said that thing on fb.