Facebook and children

patchwork_cat

onlyroz wrote: »

You have little control over the pictures that other people might put up of YOU and YOUR kids.

Well we will be fully clothed so I don't care. If a !!!!! is going to get their rocks off on a picture on a fully clothed kid then they will have plenty of opportunity. Although as my kids were exceptionally good looking....

ellay864

Facebook allows you the option to have your pictures set with access by only whoever you choose. I don't agree with giving your children their own account, but using a social medium to let friends or family see pictures is down to personal choice. I write a blog using Blogger and on that site I can look at hundres of blogs. There are many I see which are essentially family diaries where I can see full names and pictures of families including their children, often with photographs at their home and full details of what they're doing. It's not so different...in fact in some ways you could get a lot more 'dangerous' detail off a blog site

merlot123

onlyroz wrote: »

You have little control over the pictures that other people might put up of YOU and YOUR kids.

That is totally different. You should say to your SIL you do not want pictures of you uploaded on FB. Communication is key.

tinktinktinkerbell

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Why is it not appropriate? If you have your security to maximum no one other than friends can see your pictures.

Sorry, but I think you are being uptight, even if people can see pictures of them, so what?

i agree with this

ive seen people post their kids on here and im sorry but this site is a lot more unsafe than facebook

DUTR

Gleeful wrote: »

Is posting pictures of your ill child on Facebook appropriate?

Yes
I don't think it is, but someone on my friends list has done so (work associate).
That is their choice

It makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable!
You have a right to feel that way

This was the context; picture of child ill, lying down with dummy in mouth, photoshopped, with the caption 'so ill'

Another 'friend' has set up her son (who is four) with a Facebook and tags him in a lot of statuses.

IIRC the minimum age for FB is 12 and even then under parental guidance,
I despair of people sometimes, am I normal or am I too uptight?

You are normal, but probably too uptight in this particular episode.

onlyroz

merlot123 wrote: »

That is totally different. You should say to your SIL you do not want pictures of you uploaded on FB. Communication is key.

I don't mind her posting the good pictures - it's the bad pictures that I hate. She'll post them regardless of how blurry they are, or how many limbs are missing in the pic, and the ones where you're looking the wrong way, or are in mid-blink so that you look like a drunken fool even if you were sober.

jellyhead

I've put pictures of my kids (fully clothed) on facebook, but for friends only. I insisted that my sister either remove a pic of my toddler naked in a cage that she made public.

I don't see the point of giving kids a facebook profile. My kids are just tagged as me or their father. My eldest is 15 and by the time they are old enough to have a facebook account (is it 13?) they really don't want all of those baby and holiday pictures being tagged as them, all they want are pictures of them and their friends, taken by them and their friends. It's THEIR facebook and they don't want their parents embarrassing them.

birduk

onlyroz wrote: »

You have little control over the pictures that other people might put up of YOU and YOUR kids.

You can adjust your settings so that if someone tags you in a photo you have to approve it before it is tagged (I had to do this as family and embarassing drunk pictures do not mix). You can also report the picture and Facebook will remove it if you like? So you do have some control, just not that much!

heretolearn_2

'a pic of my toddler naked in a cage'

What?! there's got to be a story there...

bylromarha

And this is why Facebook is so wrong...