Charles: that's a nice picture! Those spoiling grandparents...
Aahz, I can tell you my perspective as a parent (and a photographer) When I was taking photos of my nieces, nephews, and grand-nieces, as well as my friends' kids, I usually was not posting them publically unless they were explicitly OK with that. I also was not sure how to deal with that with my own kid. There are a bunch of superstitions, paranoia, etc, but also some arguments for why people do not post photos. My wife and I decided that it is OK to post photos without attached identifying information (even though that can be researched if one is really determined). And also we are not posting some more private photos that our kid may find embarassing later on. (Well, you can never tell which ones for sure, - I am sure there will be some at some age, but at this point it's our call.) Being a scientist, I was looking for the argumented reasons why one should not post any photos. It was hard to find those, - usually it's all based on emotions. I cannot recall more than the following two: 1. A bad person would like the kid's photo and would try to find the kid and kidnap. Well, what about people who see the kid on the street, in the supermarket, at public events? Yes, internet would give higher exposure, but at the same time, internet is full of kids photos, so I am not sure if the likelyhood of your kid being targeted is really that much increased. You can keep your kid in a burqa (regardless of the gender) everywhere in public. 2. A bad person who knows the name of your kid in combination where you leave (this argument was given in relation to the information posted on Facebook and alike), would come by your house (school, ... ,) call your kid by name, and would tell that the parents send him/her e.g. to bring the kid to them (parents). Calling the kid by name would be a token of some "trustability". Yes, that can happen. How likely is that? I don't know... I am still thinking about all of that. The same radio program which suggested #2 above, was talking why other personal information should not be exposed on FB. While I agree that one shouldn't make things easier for a perpetrator by posting e.g your DOB, or exact dates when your entire family is on vacation, but some of the arguments they were using were weird. E.g. they were saying "XX% of internet users are sickos. So, if you have 100 ``friends'' on FB, XX of them are sickos who will abuse your personal information." The journalist clearly didn't know the basics of statistics. (E.g. if you leave, say, in Scandinavia, you cannot choose 5 kids and claim that one of them is a Chineese.) Igor Mon Feb 18 11:17:55 EST 2013 Aahz Maruch wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Feb 18, 2013, at 9:43 , Aahz Maruch <aahz at pobox.com> wrote: >> >> I'm going to hijack your post in a slightly different direction. My >> sibling has been rather adamant about not posting photos of zir child in >> public places. What do other people think about that attitude? > > I believe that kind of decision is entirely up to the parent. I'd > respect my sibling's wishes if that's how s/he feels about it. You are of course completely correct about that... > My kids' photos have been posted online all over the place, and my > daughter posts photos of her son quite frequently as well - but it's > definitely something that not all parents are comfortable with. ...but what I was trying to get more at was what criteria did you and your daughter use to decide that you were comfortable with public pictures? Other people who aren't comfortable, what criteria did you use? Are the people on this list different from the general population because we're more photo-focused? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
