Why do people make facebook profiles for their children/babies?

[girl]

Some of my friend have little children or babies and they make facebook profiles for them with tons of pictures. Why would someone do that? it's not like the babies know how to type!? LOL

It's very unsafe

[ladystang]

it's unsafe for them to, but they do it. don't understand why people do facebook.

[873]

i guess they're just not internet aware, and just want to show there child off to the world.
a lot of people don't realize the predators surfing the web :/

[mattiqe09]

Facebook is a social network site so people want to shares pics of there children and maybe they want to book babies name profiles so in future they will work on there on facebook page no need to suggestion or option for nick.

[Fallen♥]

I know it's really unsafe, but I guess to show off their baby pictures to their friends who add their babies as friends.

[Q]

As someone without children, I prefer for my parenting friends to create new profiles for their kids. This way, the people who don't want minute-to-minute updates about smiles and diapers (like me) can still interact with these parents in a baby-free environment. Anyone who wants those updates can add the kids separately.

In terms of security, the pictures and information are ones they would post would be on their own pages anyhow, so it's not a greater lack of security; it's the same lack of security. I agree that they should be cautious about this, but that's true in general.