Just for fun: What is/or is going to be your policy on social media photos of your baby?

[FluffyPumpkin1977]

Hi- just wondering what you guys think given the tabloid stories today of the Beckhams being criticised for posting photos of other people's children on social media.

Do you/do you intend to post photos of your baby on FB/Instagram/Twitter etc or do you intend to keep them under wraps?

I've got friends/relatives who do both- my nephew has a private instragram page (so millennial) but no photos are posted publicly and its purpose is to ensure that relatives scattered across the world can look at photos if they want to. Other friends post willy nilly, whilst others never post at all.

Would like to develop a 'policy'... what do you guys think?!

[emmab178]

I might put up one or two because I have family and friends scattered around the world but not excessive every day posting like others do. If people are struggling to conceive and carry to term it can be insensitive aswell.

Also it seems that only perfect lives are depicted on social media so I don't want to feed into that.

[stilllearning2016]

Hi FluffyPumkin1977,

(a good year that was 1977

funny you raise the subject, I've been thinking about exactely that question in the last days. Well it is coming up as i'm supposed to deliver in a week from now. My first impulse is to think: no pictures of my child online! But with his grandparents and uncles overseas, what to do? I am even wondering if Skype is safe for showing off the little one. And I remember the days when we received cards with actual pictures of newborns in the post - somehow I miss that!

I think in general I don't have the right to post pics of my child online with the view that those pictures might just get randomly downloaded by strangers. Or family/ friends, thinking nothing of it, start sharing those pics without my knowledge, and off they multilply in the

When my child gets older, I want him to learn to make those decisions for himself, well informed about the possible dangers of doing so. And I want him to understand that he must respect other people and not just snapshoot them and stick their pics on social media - that the individual's rights have to be preserved. (horror stories of sexting gone wrong spring to mind.) So if I want him to learn about the do's and don'ts, I must obey those rules myself, and that means: if I can't ask for permission (well I can ask a baby, but won't get an answer), I can't publish his pics online.

Grandparents and uncles will get a nice pic in the post and will have to visit.

Until someone convinces me otherwise

[roxannacar]

I put a few pictures on Facebook, share loads on what's app with my mum (What's app is meant to be very well encrypted) as have lots of family incl. my mum overseas. I make sure my fb is set that only friends can see the pics. I'm not convinced that anyone would hack my account just to get my daughters pics as you can find plenty of pics on Google

[mrsoneill]

I had said I won't post a lot to Facebook but have ended up being one of those people who posts too many photos of their baby. We have family n friends all abroad or further away from us so we agreed on posting on social media so they can all see, the private account idea sounds good, I wish I'd though of that x