Your kids and their pictures on the net

kriss wrote: Just keep in mind that once you upload photo's on to Facebook, they become Facebook's property.. A friend of a friend recently went to London, and at the airport saw a billboard with a photo of her child that she had put on Facebook. Though she fought out of anger for money or whatever as they were using her photo for advertising, she got nothing and the only explanation was that it was Facebook's property once she uploaded it, and that she should read the fine print

I used to post heaps and heaps of photos of Jude on Facebook all the time - this was because it was an easy and convenient way for both of our families to see Jude growing up when we lived at the other end of the country to them. Now that we have moved closer and they see Jude more often, I don't put up as many photos. We never put up any shots of Jude naked from the front. Photos are not safe on Facebook, no matter how "private" your settings are.....

And have heard of things like Kriss posted happening before, so have been meaning to go and clear out a lot of photos even though I've tried to make the albums and photos as protected and as private as possible. Even then it may be too late!

Have always been aware that this is the case (once on the internet, any low key hacker etc will have access to it!) but didn't care as much about it before. Now, I don't like the feeling that someone could be using any of my photos for anything they liked.

My3Sons wrote: LittleRed my 9 year old has asked to have a FB page!  They obviously talk about it at school and I know some of the older kids have them!

Same here my 9yr old want one. DH has got rid of his & I hardly use mine, just to keep in contact with a couple of family members I don't see...so once in a blue moon. So its not as if he sees us using it. No way will he be getting one, may reconsider when he is 15yr or 21 lol

Oh I remmeber now I had something to say. We caught up with some family end of last year and my mum kept asking if any of them were on FB, (she is obsesed with FB) but they all didn't have one because they think its all connected up to thc CIA or something.

kiwikt wrote: Little red and my 3 sons - I am so glad that neither of the underage children you know/have have FB pages already. My cousin allowed her son to have a page at 10 and they lied about his age to get it. She has provided no training for him on how to protect himself on social networking and he had been exposed to things he should and did not have the maturity to deal with because of it. There is a R13 restriction for a reason and I wish some of my friends and family would respect that.

Sorry just saw this - and as I commented above my 12 year old daughter has one - yes she had to put a different year of birth but we talked alot about it and I agreed she knew how to keep herself 'cyber safe' I have her password and ANYONE who asks to be her friend she okay's it with me first.

I just did it through my settings when I set everything up and I also go and check the settings regularly. When we had our baby dh tagged me into the pics but for some reason no one could see them so it must be something to do with our settings.

Yup am aware of FB and photo's, that's another reason DP doesn't post his pictures there and he uses other sites, I used to use another site, forgotten the name though... I know quite a few use it on here!

As for the age we held out until my daughter was nearly 13. All her friends had them earlier. What made me relent was she came home from school saying that her friend accused her of lying that she didn't have a facebook page. They had been posting stuff on her page and had been friends etc.

So we went on FB and found her page with many friends from school already friends with her. I asked to be a friend and whilst my daughter was sitting beside me it was accepted. I then reported it to facebook and sent a message saying I was her mother and you are impersonating a child and to remove this page immediately before I contact the police. (not sure I could have but made the threat) and it was deleted in minutes. I think it was a kid from school doing a trick and not a sicko.   

So we then gave her her page as an early birthday present two months before her birthday. We had to lie about the DOB. If she was going to be on there then we at least wanted it to be her. She can then moderate some of the posts etc then. We have strict rules about swearing etc and a lot of the stuff comes thru our email. I must ask her to tighten up her photos and check she doesn't have her mobile number on there like so many of her friends.

this is such a good thread... I have gone through my privacy setting and friends list since reading all the posts...

For those worried about prospective employees etc seeing your account you can set it so when non-friend google you all they see is your name and profile pic, so not too bad.

To do this you go Privacy settings > Apps and Websites > Public search

Does anyone know if you set up photos and block certain friends from seeing, if a mutual friend comments/likes a photo can the blocked person see this and then realise they are blocked??

Chickaboo wrote: Limochick wrote: Bowie you can make lists on facebook but I don't bother cos only my friends can make comments, see pics and I've made it so they can't copy them either. Also if I get tagged into a photo it only shows on my page but my friends can't comment on it iykwim. I didn't think on Facebook you could do this (bebo you could) please tell how!

People can still right click and then "save as" .... Or even take a screen print and voila! They have your photo. No matter how tight your settings are, theres still very, very easy ways to copy photos.....