Posting Pictures Of Your Children On Facebook

[roadman]

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I hate when people join a social networking site AND set their profile to private...What's your point of joining it? Please dont say friends and family because if you are using a social networking site for only your "circle" then you really shouldnt be using the computer...Go visit them, phone call....Also, How well do you know your long lost friend/family member you found on the internet? So, yea I agree with DC...

Social Networking= meeting new people....Do you really want you "new" friends seeing your 10 month old baby?

Then again, its no different from meeting a stranger at a meet and greet then pulling out your wallet to show them your family tree..

We live 90 miles away from my home town. If we are lucky, we visit four times a year. We don't have the time with three kids to go home every weekend, call my friends and hook up. We all have families, maybe it's different for you. What works for some people, doesn't always work for other people.

I know these people very well. We were all close in HS , but were pulled away from each other when we started our careers and families. Some stayed behind, some moved away. That does happen in life.

[ehh]

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Why wouldn't you put pics of them up there?

The scary things for kids being born now (in the FB era) is when they become teenagers and create their own account and go back and tag thousands of pics that their parents put up there throughout their youth.

Half the kids on FB on 15-20 years are gonna have "This Is Your Life" in Facebook photos, pics from the day they were born through present day. Crazy.

[djordan]

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I think the WORST profile pictures are the ones that the person takes themselves. They will be shown with their arm straight out holding a camera taking their own picture. Your profile shows that you have 1,072 friends. Not one of them will take your picture for you?

So what? Why are you mad? lol

[DC]

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I don't see any problem with posting photos of your kids on facebook. All your friends around the world can see them. That is what facebook is for.

The friend word is used too loosely. Most folks on people's friends list are nothing more than associates, former classmates, or former childhood faces.

[KG]

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Why wouldn't you put pics of them up there?

The scary things for kids being born now (in the FB era) is when they become teenagers and create their own account and go back and tag thousands of pics that their parents put up there throughout their youth.

Half the kids on FB on 15-20 years are gonna have "This Is Your Life" in Facebook photos, pics from the day they were born through present day. Crazy.

There will be some new site out by then. Kind of how myspace was the jump off for a while then got crushed when FB opened up to allow non students register.

[muggins]

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The friend word is used too loosely. Most folks on people's friends list are nothing more than associates, former classmates, or former childhood faces.

It isn't for me. I don't put anyone on there that I don't want to see my photos.

[RoyalBoyle78]

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I, for one, am sick of people using their kids as their "default" picture on social networking sites. I don't care when people post pictures of their kids and all, but when it is their default picture it kind of bothers me a little because it's not really "them" so to speak.

One thing I absolutely HATE though is when pregnant women constantly post belly pictures on Facebook. Yuck!

You say Yuck, but why are you looking.....LOL

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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The friend word is used too loosely. Most folks on people's friends list are nothing more than associates, former classmates, or former childhood faces.

I hate when FB recommends people to you. Just because you are my friend doesn't mean I know your grandmother, second cousin and your barber.

[no juice]

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if have no problems putting pics up of my daughter. with the whole predator thing i look at it like this... if your walking down the street with your kid, kids playing at the park with you, just running errands, your kids being looked at anyway. working with computers i know first hand that privacy is nonexistant. it's like everything else, you gotta take the good with the bad before you do something like that. people are gonna do what they do regardless of how you conceal it. as long as no one comes to me with that foolishness then im cool.

[DC]

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^ How exactly does he find pics of folks that have their profile set to private?

[Jukeman]

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We live 90 miles away from my home town. If we are lucky, we visit four times a year. We don't have the time with three kids to go home every weekend, call my friends and hook up. We all have families, maybe it's different for you. What works for some people, doesn't always work for other people.

I know these people very well. We were all close in HS , but were pulled away from each other when we started our careers and families. Some stayed behind, some moved away. That does happen in life.

I understand, I live in the city so yea its diff...But would you really call those folks you rarely see, your "circle"?

Im not saying you should have a list full of strangers, the people that baffle me are the guys who have a list of people they could see on a daily, then have the nerve to set their profile to private...Heck, the people who try to add me and have their profile to private gets a deny...How the heck am I suppose to know who you are?

What really cracks me up is when they do this on twitter...If you're that private, you really shouldnt be posting things on the internet...

[muggins]

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Again, twitter is a great way to communicate with friends. I turn it to private for two reasons: 1, I'm a professional and I have clients and I don't want them to see things I write. You can easily google someone's name and see their twitter. 2, if you don't you get all kinds of pornbots trying to add you as a friend.

[Jukeman]

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Again, twitter is a great way to communicate with friends. I turn it to private for two reasons: 1, I'm a professional and I have clients and I don't want them to see things I write. You can easily google someone's name and see their twitter. 2, if you don't you get all kinds of pornbots trying to add you as a friend.

Yea, I use twitter for business also (I do music) mine is not private but I never got any pornbots..

More power to you if Twitter is the best way to comminucate with your cleints

I just dont understand the logic of not networking on a networking website...Oh and when I say "meet new friends" im not talking about booty calls, which myspace has turn into lol....I had to take down my music page because of "groupies"...Heh, Im nothing special!

[mgoblue]

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Yea, I use twitter for business also (I do music) mine is not private but I never got any pornbots..

More power to you if Twitter is the best way to comminucate with your cleints

I just dont understand the logic of not networking on a networking website...Oh and when I say "meet new friends" im not talking about booty calls, which myspace has turn into lol....I had to take down my music page because of "groupies"...Heh, Im nothing special!

Maybe it's an age thing, I dunno. I graduated college before Facebook got huge/popular, and now that I'm in the working world I don't just randomly search for people in my area to message "How you doin?". I guess I just don't really want to meet people in that manner...I'd personally be kinda "WTF?" if some random dude wanted to start chatting with me on facebook, you know?

Then again, I'm not really that sold on the social networking thing in general...I use it as a way to keep up with friends and that's it. Still not convinced at the economical values (ie. Facebook actually making money, Twitter making a profit, etc)...

[roadman]

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I understand, I live in the city so yea its diff...But would you really call those folks you rarely see, your "circle"?

Im not saying you should have a list full of strangers, the people that baffle me are the guys who have a list of people they could see on a daily, then have the nerve to set their profile to private...Heck, the people who try to add me and have their profile to private gets a deny...How the heck am I suppose to know who you are?

What really cracks me up is when they do this on twitter...If you're that private, you really shouldnt be posting things on the internet...

Ah, ok, I'm with you.

I wouldn't call those people our circle of friends because they are further away. Some are in another state, some are 3 hrs away,etc...... I would call them our "broken" circle of friends. Once strong friends, now too far away to be considered strong friends.

Also, I don't FB with anyone that is near us, either. As you said, just pick up the darn phone and call them.