For parents who don't post pictures of their kids on social media

[Anonymous]

Do you extend that to signing photo releases of your kids for stuff like school, camps and sports? We have never posted our kids' faces for various reasons but I have always signed the releases for things like this. I'm second guessing this now and wondering how other people handle this.

[Anonymous]

I have sometimes not signed it. I usually do. I feel it's different in that the photo is not tied to my name and therefore not explicitly identifying my kid.

[Anonymous]

I always sign the releases. I feel like their face being in a random group shot without their name isn’t a huge deal. But I just hate social media in general, so don’t have accounts there, vs avoiding posting my kids for some other specific reason

[Anonymous]

Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always sign the releases. I feel like their face being in a random group shot without their name isn’t a huge deal. But I just hate social media in general, so don’t have accounts there, vs avoiding posting my kids for some other specific reason

I have SM but rarely post. I don't mind the random group shots and DS has expressed liking seeing a photo of him from a game or event posted on their page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

What if I am? Then what?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

What if I am? Then what?

Then maybe you’d have good reason. But we both know you’re not a celebrity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have sometimes not signed it. I usually do. I feel it's different in that the photo is not tied to my name and therefore not explicitly identifying my kid.

By the way, my kid is featured in individual photos on a website and social media for two different activities but again not identified. Just saying it's not only the potential for group photos.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

What if I am? Then what?

Then maybe you’d have good reason. But we both know you’re not a celebrity.

I'm sorry you find the need to hawk your kid's childhood out for validation from strangers. Some of us don't have endless pits of neediness that need to be filled with likes at the expense of out children's privacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

My DD won't post pics of her baby. People do some weird stuff with online pictures these days. AI porn, etc. No need to risk it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have sometimes not signed it. I usually do. I feel it's different in that the photo is not tied to my name and therefore not explicitly identifying my kid.

By the way, my kid is featured in individual photos on a website and social media for two different activities but again not identified. Just saying it's not only the potential for group photos.

This is OP. Can I ask what age? Does your kid know about the photos? A big thing for me is consent of my kids and I think if they had no problem with it I'd have no problem with it but I'm not sure what age they can really understand this issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

What if I am? Then what?

Then maybe you’d have good reason. But we both know you’re not a celebrity.

I'm sorry you find the need to hawk your kid's childhood out for validation from strangers. Some of us don't have endless pits of neediness that need to be filled with likes at the expense of out children's privacy.

Lol I see we have yet another shrilling extremist on DCUM. There’s such a thing as a happy medium you know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

What if I am? Then what?

Then maybe you’d have good reason. But we both know you’re not a celebrity.

I'm sorry you find the need to hawk your kid's childhood out for validation from strangers. Some of us don't have endless pits of neediness that need to be filled with likes at the expense of out children's privacy.

Lol I see we have yet another shrilling extremist on DCUM. There’s such a thing as a happy medium you know.

Whatever you need to tell yourself.

[Anonymous]

We’re a no-kids-on-social family. When I get those releases, we don’t sign them, and if there’s an opt out box, we always check it. That being said, I know some orgs aren’t careful about it (ex: my kids have been in group action shot in newsletters, etc) and that doesn’t bother me and I’ve never said anything

If there was a photo on a public website that featured one of my kids, I would ask them to take it down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about your kids. Who do you think you are, a celebrity?

People keep photos of their kids off the internet specifically because we know no one else cares about them. Which means other people are sometimes inclined to do very sketchy things with photos of children, because they don't care at all about those kids.

Like this: https://www.fastcompany.com/3036073/the-creepiest-new-corner-of-instagram-role-playing-with-stolen-baby-photos

Or this: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/27/childrens-personal-photos-are-powering-ai-exploitation

And thoughts here: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1251819597/why-you-should-think-twice-before-posting-that-cute-photo-of-your-kid-online

This is not about people being self-centered or thinking others are obsessed with them. It's about protecting kids, their identities, and their data from a lot of entities that have no problem exploiting the images of children for their own gain.