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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m naturally not a worrier about safety related things. I don’t know why, just always been that way.  I’ve realized with my kids I need to be more conscious of it, but it just doesn’t occur to me and even less so for dh.  For example we took first day of school pics that were cute and our first family photos since having a new baby so I made if my fb pic.  Almost 6wks later it occurred to me that pic has my kids name and school name on it and I pulled it down.  Most of it isn’t social media related, I don’t post much on sm, just using that as an example of how something obviously unsafe flies right by me.

Any ideas of how to be a little bit more of a worrier about my kids safety? And before I get trashed I’m in no way a neglectful parent, I’m very involved, worry about their mental well-being, their diets, their happiness etc etc etc - this is just a weird area I don’t have the natural alarm instincts and am more like an 80s safety mindset[/quote]

No one is stealing your children because you posted a pic on FB.  It seems that you have no clue what the true dangers are to your children:

1. Family members and close family friends
2. Not wearing a helmet
3. Not wearing seat belt
4. Pools[/quote]
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I don’t understand the anxiety about social media posting? At our preschool a bunch of new parents signed things that their kids aren’t allowed in any photos. So now the staff has to make sure these kids are out of all photos even on thr things that are sent on thr intenal app to parents documenting the day. What do they think someone is going to do?[/quote]

It’s a few things. My reason is giving your child some semblance of privacy. Call it ten kids in a class, 40 grandparents, 80 aunts and uncles, no 120 random people who have nothing to do with my child don’t need to see him eighteen townships a week in photos. Out of 120 people there’s likely at least one person I wouldn’t want in possession of photos of my child.  Photos on the internet are forever.

Other reasons I know personally:

Some people in this area are in higher profile jobs and don’t want it made public what school their children attend.

Some parents are foster parents and cannot give consent for their foster children's photos to be shared.

Other Reasons I’ve heard but haven’t seen personally:

A child who is transgender doesn’t need 10,000 people his parents haven’t spoken to since high school knowing his deadname or seeing tons of photos from his time as a girl.

Complicated custody situations/fear of parental kidnapping.

The use of deepfake technology to create exploitative or blackmail videos.[/quote]

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