facebook: where to draw the line with pictures of your children?

[Ayla]

I don't post pictures of my kids faces on the Internet. Right now I have a picture of my daughter holding our pug in the "Post Your Pets" thread and I blurred her face.

I don't like the thought of people seeing who they are and what they might do with the picture. There's also some creepy ass people out there and I don't want them getting ahold of pictures of them.

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I think parents that post pictures of their naked kids online (even if they are babies) are fucking crazy. So many weirdos out there, I just can't understand why you'd do that.

Id assume there's probably a picture of your child out there. One of my friends friends went apeshit because someone posted and tagged a picture of her child online with a bunch of other children and demanded it be taken down because she didnt know the guy, called the police filed a report, turns out out was the father of some kid there. Its freaking out for the sake of freaking out.

[Replica]

Draw the line after the first one.
Post a picture of your kid? Unfollow so I don't see it anymore.
If I gave a shit about your "37.181231 month old" child, I would call you up and ask how its doing.

[Deleted]

While I don't subscribe to this notion that paedophiles are everywhere, it's a pretty awful thing to do to your kid. Another thing that illustrates that so many parents don't have a fucking clue about the internet.

[Herecius]

Whatever you might think of prudity, if you post pictures of your naked kid on the net, it'll end up on a child pornography site somewhere. It will simply happen.

[dwightyo39]

Well that's my line of thought. If you are so baby obsessed that you have to take naked photos of your kid, keep them in a personal album at home. Don't put them on the net.

Also, maybe someone can explain why some folks are so worried about a picture (non nude) of their child being on facebook? This forum is the first I've heard of such a thing.

[Maelfyn]

I have three kids younger than four. There's no way in hell I'd post naked pictures of my kids anywhere on the internet. If other people want to post them on facebook, I'll think that is weird, but that's life I guess. Everyone has different comfort levels.

[announced]

ya posting photos of your children naked is not.. a good idea. esp not on facebook with its laughable security. your just opening up your children to pedophiles.

[Deleted]

I think that posting pictures of your children to the internet is a bad idea in general. Once you upload them, you have zero control over how they are used or who gets to see them. I think you should avoid doing stuff that has a permanent, potentially negative effect on your children if you can avoid it.

[Reona]

Imo, there is no reason to put naked pictures up of your child on the net for any reason what so ever, this is not because I have a thing about nudity, but rather I have a problem with innocent pics making their way into the hands of the scum of the earth and being used as currency for images of children that have been abused.

This this this!

Whenever one of my FB friends posts these kinds of pics of their children it makes me kind of worried for them.

[Revi]

This this this!

Whenever one of my FB friends posts these kinds of pics of their children it makes me kind of worried for them.

Have any of these friends ever had any consequences like that, or is this you just worrying irrationally?

I don't see why people feel we should censor ourselves because of some hypothetical pedo that could misuse them without ever affecting us.

[imabanana]

Just think to yourself: "Will someone jerk off to this?" If the answer is anything but "probably not", then you should edit, cut, or delete it, especially when posting to a website like fucking FACEBOOK.

If you think this before posting anything on the internet, you'll spend days of editing absolutely everything you want to post.

[Reona]

Have any of these friends ever had any consequences like that, or is this you just worrying irrationally?

I don't see why people feel we should censor ourselves because of some hypothetical pedo that could misuse them without ever affecting us.

Actually this has happened to someone I know (I don't want to get into it, but it was pretty shocking and disturbing), so of course I worry a little.

[Deleted]

People using facebook have a history of doing stupid shit. How many times don't you see people invite burglars to their homes by openly announcing that NOBODY will be home for 2 weeks while the entire family is vacationing in Hawaii? Or when people openly discuss their drug habits or extreme political beliefs and consequently lose their jobs when their boss is spying on them? Or in this case using their children as pedobait because "I don't have any pedos or weirdos on my list of complete strangers I refer to as friends". Most people are really fucking stupid and they don't think things through. You can't shelter stupid from stupid, they gotta learn themselves.

[nevermore]

I think it's safe to say there's at least one of these photos in every family's photo album For some reason parents think it's cute, whatever.

But if you post it on the internet... WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

Also FYI it's actually illegal. Very illegal. Not to mention you're also getting your FB friends into trouble as well since the photo of your naked child is now in their browser's offline cache.

[Deleted]

I don't really care, I think they're being foolish and naive by posting it online but that's for them to decide.

[Deleted]

what am I reading?

my mind is about to explode... Now naked toddlers become offensive? Is that what I get from this?

Given that having naked pictures of todlers is grounds to be arrested and branded a pedophile, yes, I would class them as offensive when posted onto online public sources.

[Deleted]

Given that having naked pictures of todlers is grounds to be arrested and branded a pedophile, yes, I would class them as offensive when posted onto online public sources.

It's illegal if they're pornographic. Nudism isn't illegal itself, though I'm sure it still breaks the Facebook ToS.

[Deleted]

I'm not too keen on uploading pictures of myself on the web, but I'm quite a private person and frankly, to each his own so I won't judge those who do it. I don't see anything wrong with posting innocent pictures of your children with you. Society is pretty fucked up nowadays but that doesn't mean that we should deny ourselves what little makes us happy. This actually reminds me of these two articles (SHORT AND WITH PICTURES)

About a dad who takes "pornographic pictures" of his little girl (professional photographer, where do you draw the line in Art?)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5683243.html

And this one about the awesome ideas this dad has for photoshoots of his daughter:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrel...-s#.ptx2MekznO

Should they also be taken down? or is it okay because it's art?

[Deleted]

It's illegal if they're pornographic. Nudism isn't illegal itself, though I'm sure it still breaks the Facebook ToS.

when it comes to photoigraphic nudity of children though. Its not the same as an adult within the law.

[Deleted]

I'm not too keen on uploading pictures of myself on the web, but I'm quite a private person and frankly, to each his own so I won't judge those who do it. I don't see anything wrong with posting innocent pictures of your children with you. Society is pretty fucked up nowadays but that doesn't mean that we should deny ourselves what little makes us happy. This actually reminds me of these two articles (SHORT AND WITH PICTURES)

About a dad who takes "pornographic pictures" of his little girl (professional photographer, where do you draw the line in Art?)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5683243.html

And this one about the awesome ideas this dad has for photoshoots of his daughter:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrel...-s#.ptx2MekznO

Should they also be taken down? or is it okay because it's art?

It pretty much comes down to whether or not people see nudity and immediately define it as innately sexual.

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when it comes to photoigraphic nudity of children though. Its not the same as an adult within the law.

I wasn't talking about adult law. Non-sexual photos of children in the nude are simply not illegal, it's just a really challenging area to define.