Poll: Should parents post pictures of their kids on facebook?

[Mark]

With summer over, and most kids are going back to school this week, a lot of parents will probably be taking many many pictures of their young kids and post it on their facebook page.

Should they? I'm not a parent yet, but I feel weird on this issue. With many child molesters out there, I just wish parents don't post pictures of their kids on facebook at all just to be safe.

I'm 50/50 on this issue, I'm ok with it, as long as your page friend's list are really people you know. A lot of us add people on our fb page we don't even know so. if your friends list are people you know go ahead. But if not, than maybe you should not be posting your kids pictures on your page.

What do you think?

[Ombichong]

no ,a lot of people can see their kids and do the harm

[Tina]

my facebook contacts are only family and close friends and i make all my things private so i don't have a problem with it.

[Answers one]

In my opinion, no. If these pictures are shared, they are stored forever in different places, and if later on the child would want to remove it, it is already all around the internet. In addition, Facebook makes use of these pictures, for example for their face recognition algorithm, so why giving them info about our children?
Eventually when the child grows old and decides that that's what s/he wants, s/he can post her own pictures.

[LUCIFER]

Where it is putting a child at risk it's not a matter of if they should or shouldn't. The parents took the pictures so they own the rights to those photos and can do as they please with them. For the most part everyone knows the risk of putting ANY picture up on the Internet, but many forget that those pictures can easily be copied and pasted or saved on to ones computer by strangers, predators, etc. It actually shocks me how adults will post pictures of themselves on the Internet risking the fact that someone could easily use it to photoshop for advertising porn or sexual aid mechandise. Too many people take the Internet for granted and never think it will happen to them.