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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody cares about your kids.  Who do you think you are, a celebrity?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

If you have social media set to private settings and only have true “friends” with access to your posts and don’t go crazy you’re fine.  And if some school or sports team puts the whole team or activity on line you’re fine too.  There’s being careful and reasonable and there’s being paranoid.  Hence the happy medium as
I said before.  [/quote]

Yeah so maybe you never saw a single after school special as a child…“true friends” exploit kids all the time.

Why not save the pictures and let the jid decide when they’re 18? Most of the 11-15 set finds their parents posting about them on social media unbelievably cringe.[/quote]

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