Class photos on Facebook

[DubaiChick]

Hi I am class rep for my dd (in FS1) and I have been asked to mail quite a few class photos to parents.

Although I don't mind doing this, it would seem quite an onerous process. So I was thinking of creating a FB page/group with special security settings to share pics more easily.

For obvious reasons, I would not like the kids' details to be accessible on internet to anyone other than the parents.

Parents in Dubai (where I am located) tend to be less paranoid than in the UK but I still do not want to upset anyone!

I would like to hear from anyone who has done this in the past. I have heard that I can just set up a group from my own FB and set it as 'secret'. Would this achieve the same effect as setting up a separate account for the class?

Thanks in advance - am a bit of a novice on FB.

Cheers x

Can you not use a website like snapfish where they have community rooms where you do much as you like with facebook but can also then print the photos too.

I think there are real issues about protection and secrecy-not just from active use of what is there but from what isn't.

If an abusive partner is trying to track down a child and has got the search down to an area, and 4 local schools have pictures up and one doesn't, and child isn't on any of the pictures, then in effect the schools in question might as well have just published contact details.

What do other schools in Dubai do, surely that matters?