Your kids and their pictures on the net

Mainly i'm thinking of facebook when i write this!

What are your policies on your kids pictures on the internet?

More specifically i mean do you put on facebook every picture you take? Only put on pictures of special events? Just pictures that are cute? Or none at all?

Do you exclude certain pictures like naked bath time ones or dirty poop ones? Why - because you're worried about who will see it or because you're preserving your kids dignity? A combination of both or something else completely?

If you don't have facebook - do you put pictures elsewhere (like OhBaby) or just share via email?

I notice some members here have big picture siggys with names and DOBs and some only have a first initial and an age or even just a DD/DS and an age.

A bit curious as to what you consider the line for sharing information about your children.

Oh - and if you chose not to display any information about your child how do you stop other people doing it? For example i'm not sure i will put ANY pictures on the internet at all, but i know friends will take pictures of my baby having a playdate with their children and put them up on facebook.

Edited by bowie

Oooh, good topic! I'm totally cool with photos of Jacob being on the internet. In fact, I post a new one every day - my sister, who lived with us while I was pregnant, moved to Canada to get married, and was SO gutted not to get to know him. So every day since he was born I take a photo and put it up. That way, she gets to see him grow, and although it's a lot of photos, I find I avoid the floods you often see on FB (you know, multiple photos of a very similar pose). I could make it a private albumn, but other people like to see them, and, to be frank, I like to show him off

I don't put nearly every picture I take on. The point is to keep my sister (and anyone else who cares) up to date, not bore them to tears. It helps me sort my photos, too.

I've given it though, and can't see any harm coming from it. In saying that, I do take care what I post. For example, I took one of him with a blanket we lost (I mentioned it on the random acts of kindness thread) and the flier I made to get it back. It had our address and phone number, and I carefully chose a shot where his arm was hiding them.

I also never include a photo that shows his boy bits. There's just too many weirdos on the internet, and I would hate his photo to get to one of them. I'm OK with his little tushie showing (you see countless baby adds showing baby bottoms, afterall, weirdos wouldn't have to resort to FB pictures), but I always make good use of a rubber ducky or camera flare to hide his bits.

I do put a few on FB but i take heaps so not many get onto there. In saying that my album with DDs pics has over 100 photos

I use to put pics of DD on OB for my siggy but have since stopped. The main reason for that is because i dont want everyone knowing who i am. People i know IRL. Although i think her name is in my ticker

I dont put up naked pics but i saw a friend of DPs put up heaps of her daughter playing outside naked which i thought was wrong. The girl was over 2 yrs so not a baby.

I see no harm in putting pics on FB. Well so long as your page in private. Many people keep in contact with relatives that way, its easier than email.

If my friends added pics of my child without asking id be pretty pissed off. Especially if i didnt have any on my own FB.

Thats a good point - if your FB is really private then its different again. I use mine in the broader term of social network - my 'friends' list includes people i knew in high school, girls i worked with at a part time job 2 years ago, friends of friends i met once at a party etc so none of them need to be involved in child-picture sharing!! TBH i have a couple of friends that i don't even know who they are, only our 40 mutual friends in common give me a hint i went to high school with them. May be time for a good clear out

Actually, it was one of those that started this thread - a girl i worked with for a few months part time about 4 years ago put up pictures of her newborn with a close up of his boy bits and the caption "Big boy like his proud daddy" and to be honest it made me go what the HELL!? Close friends don't need to see that, let alone an almost stranger!!

Ah yea, that's something you just don't need to see!

My FB is locked down so any photos I put up are friends only. I have recently gone through my friends list and noticed I have been defriended by a few people. The way I look at it now is they don't have the privilage to see what I have been up to these days.

Majority of my albums (esp the ones that have pics of kids in them!) are set to 'friends only' and the only time I put photos of DD in the bath up, she had a cloth placed 'just so' I cant remember if I posted the one of her being weighed at birth, that one showed her girly bits, I know its on my photobucket account though. I dont put up all the photos I take, generally the ones I think are really cute, or have a funny sequence to them. I usually wait til I have 5 or more to post, then do a bulk upload lol.

I'm getting to that age where most of my friends (esp the old school friends who added me just because they knew me back then) have babies, so its not really that wierd to post lots of kids pics nowadays (dammit that makes me sound old!)

I try not to post my kids full names on here (first name s only most of the time, and never the last name as its not entirely common) as it would bring my username up in a google search. I dont have contact with my dads parents (my choice) but its definitely something they would try and do to find pics of my kids. I did at one stage have a siggy pic with both kids on it, but for some reason my oldests face was at an angle that he wasnt easily recognised unless you really knew him. One of the mums on here who used to see him every day at school didnt even twig until she realised whose mum I was! I only removed the one with DDs 1st birthday pics cos it was outdated and I needed room for the ticker hehe


Thats sooo wierd that your old school friend would post a close-up of boy bits! Maybe I'm a bit nana-ish, or really paranoid, but I try and avoid any part of my kids genitals being exposed in such a public manner you never know whos looking, and its pretty damn easy to copy photos if you can see them!

I have my settings on FB set to friends only, and as for pics, I put up the ones I think are cute, there are a lot of my children, but there are worse ones than me.
I think (like every parent ) that my children are gorgeous and I love showing them off.
I wouldn't take pics or put up pics of C naked (she would never forgive me ) but I have a few of Ty with his bare bottom showing, not the front part though.

I have (obviously ) rather big signatures on here, and 2 have my children's photos in them,probably not the safest thing to do,but I naively feel like i've been here so long, know pretty much everyone and besides that, im so impressed by them,Lisa did a great job with them I love to display them

AandCsmum wrote: If I post pics of other peoples kids, I post them on their page or tag them so they know I've posted them. It's then their choice if they stay up there or not.

My coffee group friends and I have an unspoken rule that when we take the photos that include their kids as well as our own, we check that its ok before putting up on FB, then tag the mum in them so we can 'screen' them.

I have all my FB set to friends only. I put up loads of pics but have friends and family all over the world.

I don't post pics of other people's children without asking first and have made it clear to others I expect the same from them. I don't have a huge friends list and and fussy about who my friends are.

I think there may be a few nudey shots on there but nothing with bits just bare bums.