Do you post photos of your kids on social media?
Discussion
Kids all back to school this week, cue the deluge of photos on Facebook of children standing by their front door in their school uniform.
Got me thinking, there are quite a few people out there who have no qualms about posting their entire life story online. Fair enough. However, there are a decent proportion who constantly post photos/updates about their kids, literally documenting their every 'significant' (and in most cases...not significant) event.
The kid will now have their entire life recorded online with photos essentially from when they were a baby.
Maybe that will be the way of the world in the future with everyone having a significant online presence and their entire life illustrated in photos, but perhaps that should be reserved until the individual is old enough to make their own decision?
Moreover, from a somewhat more sinister point of view, it can expose that child to nefarious individuals who given the advances in AI will be able to make deep fake images/videos of the child.
Personally I don't post online photos of my kid or updates on their 'life events'.
Are you the kind of person who posts photos of your kids online?
Interested to hear any thoughts.
Got me thinking, there are quite a few people out there who have no qualms about posting their entire life story online. Fair enough. However, there are a decent proportion who constantly post photos/updates about their kids, literally documenting their every 'significant' (and in most cases...not significant) event.
The kid will now have their entire life recorded online with photos essentially from when they were a baby.
Maybe that will be the way of the world in the future with everyone having a significant online presence and their entire life illustrated in photos, but perhaps that should be reserved until the individual is old enough to make their own decision?
Moreover, from a somewhat more sinister point of view, it can expose that child to nefarious individuals who given the advances in AI will be able to make deep fake images/videos of the child.
Personally I don't post online photos of my kid or updates on their 'life events'.
Are you the kind of person who posts photos of your kids online?
Interested to hear any thoughts.
Parsnip said:
We don't. Your kid(s) is boring. I am well aware that to anyone outside of immediate family, ours is boring as well.
We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
This. No one outside of your family circle cares what your kid looks like on the first day of school or any other day.We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
I don't really post anything on social media as I generally can't be bothered, but my wife does the odd Instagram one of family type stuff. I have no issue with it.
What does make me laugh is a couple of people on my Facebook that post stacks of photos of them and their kids doing all variety of things, but every picture of their child has a massive smiley blocking their face or is taken from behind. Looks mental.
What does make me laugh is a couple of people on my Facebook that post stacks of photos of them and their kids doing all variety of things, but every picture of their child has a massive smiley blocking their face or is taken from behind. Looks mental.
Gary29 said:
Parsnip said:
We don't. Your kid(s) is boring. I am well aware that to anyone outside of immediate family, ours is boring as well.
We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
This. No one outside of your family circle cares what your kid looks like on the first day of school or any other day.We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
The problem is more than some people have no self control when it comes to who gets added, and there is that fairly small subset who are hiding from an abusive ex or some similar situation, and have a very good reason to keep their kids as invisible as possible.
Gary29 said:
Parsnip said:
We don't. Your kid(s) is boring. I am well aware that to anyone outside of immediate family, ours is boring as well.
We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
This. No one outside of your family circle cares what your kid looks like on the first day of school or any other day.We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
We don't...
both our kids post their own pics up...
Mind you, they are in their late 30's, early 40s!
We do have grandkids, one of whom started (introduction day) to 'big' school yesterday.
Loads of pics of her taken but for family, friends, posterity, etc.
Not for widespread general viewing.
Anyway, not sure if it's overall policy, but whenever their parents and/or we as grandparents attended 'do's' like concerts, sports days etc, at her primary school, we were ALWAYS reminded by the school headteacher of this at the end of any event:
'Please remember, do NOT post any film or pics you take up on social media, thank you.'
both our kids post their own pics up...
Mind you, they are in their late 30's, early 40s!
We do have grandkids, one of whom started (introduction day) to 'big' school yesterday.
Loads of pics of her taken but for family, friends, posterity, etc.
Not for widespread general viewing.
Anyway, not sure if it's overall policy, but whenever their parents and/or we as grandparents attended 'do's' like concerts, sports days etc, at her primary school, we were ALWAYS reminded by the school headteacher of this at the end of any event:
'Please remember, do NOT post any film or pics you take up on social media, thank you.'
dandarez said:
We don't...
Anyway, not sure if it's overall policy, but whenever their parents and/or we as grandparents attended 'do's' like concerts, sports days etc, at her primary school, we were ALWAYS reminded by the school headteacher of this at the end of any event:
'Please remember, do NOT post any film or pics you take up on social media, thank you.'
This is because amongst the school population there is likely to be at least one kid who really shouldn't be on social media. 'No contact' court orders because of domestic violence is the main reason, if the parent who's been ordered to stay well away knows roughly where they live, they may start studying pictures of larger school group photos to see if they can find where the kid may be found every day. But that's not at all the same situation as a 'first day at their new school' photo, or a parent posting a photo taken at home of their own child dressed as a shepherd for the nativity play.Anyway, not sure if it's overall policy, but whenever their parents and/or we as grandparents attended 'do's' like concerts, sports days etc, at her primary school, we were ALWAYS reminded by the school headteacher of this at the end of any event:
'Please remember, do NOT post any film or pics you take up on social media, thank you.'
Gary29 said:
Parsnip said:
We don't. Your kid(s) is boring. I am well aware that to anyone outside of immediate family, ours is boring as well.
We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
This. No one outside of your family circle cares what your kid looks like on the first day of school or any other day.We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
Fair enough but their family does and it's probably the easiest way of sharing it.
We put our fair share of pictures up, not generally first day of school but certainly lots of holiday photos.
Seems like one of those things where if you don't like it then its probably not aimed at you and just move on.
Gary29 said:
Parsnip said:
We don't. Your kid(s) is boring. I am well aware that to anyone outside of immediate family, ours is boring as well.
We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
This. No one outside of your family circle cares what your kid looks like on the first day of school or any other day.We have a WhatsApp group with grandparents etc. that we share photos to and share google albums if they want to look at more, but nothing public.
The people I do care about, I see or I communicate with in private.
No, I do not put photos of our son on social media. My wife has uploaded literally 1 or 2 photos previously, but that is the sum total.
Firstly, because he may not wish to have hundreds or thousands of images of himself all over the internet. When he gets to a suitable age, he can decide for himself if he wishes to have a social media account and if he wants to upload photos of himself. He may want privacy, or he may not. We took the same approach with regards to religion - We didn't have him baptised, christened, confirmed, or whatever else people do. We did nothing. That sort of thing is not for us to decide. It's for him to decide when he gets old enough.
Secondly, no one cares about seeing photos other people's kids on social media. My parents and in-laws aren't on social media anyway. We have a shared photo album for our family and the in-laws family to view, which works great. I share photos on WhatsApp with friends occasionally. Plus seeing people in person of course.
My interest in social media for friends/family has almost vanished these days. I haven't posted anything for many years, and use Facebook almost exclusively for local news, marketplace, and groups for hobbies/interests. I see my friends in person when I can, and share stuff privately via WhatsApp.
Firstly, because he may not wish to have hundreds or thousands of images of himself all over the internet. When he gets to a suitable age, he can decide for himself if he wishes to have a social media account and if he wants to upload photos of himself. He may want privacy, or he may not. We took the same approach with regards to religion - We didn't have him baptised, christened, confirmed, or whatever else people do. We did nothing. That sort of thing is not for us to decide. It's for him to decide when he gets old enough.
Secondly, no one cares about seeing photos other people's kids on social media. My parents and in-laws aren't on social media anyway. We have a shared photo album for our family and the in-laws family to view, which works great. I share photos on WhatsApp with friends occasionally. Plus seeing people in person of course.
My interest in social media for friends/family has almost vanished these days. I haven't posted anything for many years, and use Facebook almost exclusively for local news, marketplace, and groups for hobbies/interests. I see my friends in person when I can, and share stuff privately via WhatsApp.
Edited by Le Gavroche on Thursday 4th September 11:05
Yes sometimes, usually in the humourous situations they get themselves into
Or to raise humour of the autism and disabilities my son has and the hysterical situations that he ends up creating - blocking a toilet with hotwheels cars used to be his faveourite pastime .
Yes there are risks , but im fine with it & have more bigger things to worry about than the odd pic on a restricted Social media
Each to their own
I also like the back to school pics - kids are great fun and cute IMO - each to their own
Or to raise humour of the autism and disabilities my son has and the hysterical situations that he ends up creating - blocking a toilet with hotwheels cars used to be his faveourite pastime .
Yes there are risks , but im fine with it & have more bigger things to worry about than the odd pic on a restricted Social media
Each to their own
I also like the back to school pics - kids are great fun and cute IMO - each to their own
Nope. I've not posted anything on social media for about 10 years.
I was a late teen when the likes of Facebook, MySpace.etc kicked off - my group of friends would post something pretty much every day.
Fast forward to now, I'm trying to rid myself of the lot - last went on Snapchat about 5 years ago.
Last one to go is FB, I think it will be an easy thing to do as most of it is just adverts and rubbish memes.
Now we just have a WhatsApp group whereby we share photos.
My lad has just turned three, I'm going to try my dammed hardest to make sure he keeps away from all that rubbish for as long as possible.
The internet is a wild place.
I was a late teen when the likes of Facebook, MySpace.etc kicked off - my group of friends would post something pretty much every day.
Fast forward to now, I'm trying to rid myself of the lot - last went on Snapchat about 5 years ago.
Last one to go is FB, I think it will be an easy thing to do as most of it is just adverts and rubbish memes.
Now we just have a WhatsApp group whereby we share photos.
My lad has just turned three, I'm going to try my dammed hardest to make sure he keeps away from all that rubbish for as long as possible.
The internet is a wild place.
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