Why in the hell do parents think the internet is private!?!?!?!
 

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! :disgust

You are right. It's shocking how many dumb ass parents out there let their kids post shit too on sites like Facebook thinking nobody will ever see it expect those "friends" they approve.

Two things here....

Kids are all over social networking. You can't tell your thirteen year old kid that they can't be on Facebook (or snapchat or instragram or whatever the current trend is these days). All of their friends are.

As for parents.... They have no clue. Most of them do not even understand privacy settings.

:2 cents::thumbsup

I think we are jaded unfortunately. You wish you could unknow what you know. Ignorance is bliss.

Yeah you can. You can tell your kids any damn thing you want when they are 13.

A responsible parent can tell their child anything they wish and the child will follow it or you simply take away the electronic device that they are abusing. Simple

The problem is that there is a substantial percentage of parents who are simply stupid and not fit to be parents. Sadly there is no law to prevent these morons from breeding however so everyone has to deal with their uselessness and even more useless offspring!

I totally agree Tam.

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.

Yeah, you sure can.

I have a friend of mine who has a thirteen year old son. He is not allowed on FB, not allowed to play any video games that have any kind of chat feature. The kid complains to me all the time about how he cannot do anything online. He'll be required to have an email account next year in high school, has never used it, and will be about six years behind the curve.

All because their parents fear technology.