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Originally Posted by Tam
I just heard a thing on the news about mothers getting so mad because Instagram and Facebook are removing their images - are they REALLY this damn stupid? They think it is about THEM, when they are almost all holding half naked kids. I swear I will never get why people think that posting on these sites is so private!! Why they think their kids are at risk when they post pics of their kids in a half naked state - giving them their locations, names, ages and god knows what all - this is probably the single most bat shit crazy I get when I see this - they are basically sitting their kids down in heavy traffic and wondering why they get run down!
I am sorry, I don't mean to rant or freak out, I don't know if it's just where WE work and the field we all work in and things we have seen - but when I see someone posting images of children in this state it just makes me go out of my mind crazy. Between this and being an attack dog of a mom - I just keep this in the front of my mind.
This may or may not be the place for it, but somehow I just know that the parents here will totally understand why it makes me so crazy!  |
I don't agree in the slightest. I think people are irrationally paranoid about these things. The article I saw had a baby girl who was "topless" - it was a just toddler playing with her clothes. It was cute and about the furthest thing from prurient. It's like the clueless idiots that used to process photos that called the cops on parents for having photos of all their kids in a bath on the roll... the most common childhood photo of all time. Made me fucking furious.
It stems from a lack of knowledge of the actual risks to your child. A toddler is about 500,000 times more likely to be molested by their father than some random guy off the internet tracking them down. In fact I don't think there is a single documented case of it. When they're 12 or 13 and chatting with strangers online that's a different story, but innocent baby photos??? pfft. Zero risk. Whatever worry you have multiply that by 1000 and look at every male in your family and on your street. That's where the actual threat is.
I don't have any of this type of photo on my social media, but I hate this hysteria. It feeds into so much unnecessary paranoid BS. I'm basically waiting for the first time someone confronts me in public taking photos of my baby on the beach because their kids who I didn't even notice are in the background or something. Hear about it all the time on photography forums. The fact you can't take photo's at your kids swimming carnivals any more because apparently no man can be trusted with a camera around young people and we are all pedo's by default because someone without any understanding of abuse statistics got a hair lodged way up their ass while clutching their pearls.
Maddening bullshit.
I might do a police check on the parents of the friend my daughter has her first sleep over with but I won't lose a wink of sleep over simple cute photos you have to be sick in the head to twist into something sexual.