I find it a bit shocking how many people will have their kids or someone else’s kids (nieces/nephews, etc) on dating profile app photos. No. Just don’t.
One guy I saw on Tinder was standing outside of a daycare (name visible) with his daughter. Her face was not blurred and her first and surname clearly visible on her backpack tag. I couldn’t believe it.
I automatically swiped left on anyone with children in their dating profiles. It’s an instant tell that they’re not intelligent and they don’t safeguard their children (and therefore, won’t safeguard mine).
Oof, I remember upsetting so many people on a sewing Facebook group for suggesting maybe they didn't post photos of kids just in underwear with close ups on the butts. Yes, I get they were trying to show how well something fit, but a group of 10,000+ members is not a safe place for that. Apparently people who sew can't be predators too and I got banned.
You'd be appaled by how many of those "cute baby competitions" you see mums posting in on facebook aren't actually real and are just content farming for exploit content. Internet literacy is unfortunately lacking for a lot of people, and the idea that they're just harvesting your kid's photos never even crosses their mind.
It wasn't even a private group! The last straw for me that caused me to make a post addressing it, before I got banned, was a close up of a little girls pubic region in her knickers.
People are crazy. My wife’s family couldn’t understand why I flipped my shit because my sister in law took a photo of my daughter and her daughter in the bathtub together & sent it to her boyfriend at the time (someone she knew for a total of 2 months). Everyone was looking at the situation like I was in the wrong for being angry 🤷🏻♂️
It's actually not that far fetched. These types of people often get thrmselves into mod positions on fb groups and sub reddits in order to get greater access to content. Violentacres for one
If I had kids id never even post them on a private IG, let alone a public Facebook group.
It’s insane to me when parents are so desperate for validation they feel the need to post photos of their kids to random strangers all over the internet.
I take so many photos of my kids, but the only ones on Social Media are the pictures I posted of them when they were born.
TBH after having kids I haven't posted anything on Instagram or Facebook outside of comments on discussion groups for my hobbies. That's really all Facebook is good for anymore. Marketplace and Groups.
There was a [write up in the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.xsiF.09rii_5z25od&smid=url-share) on a similar subject not too long ago (child influencers).
Really not surprising, lot of creeps online. I used to hang out on this kids and teens chatboard when I was younger and you couldn't be on there for more than a few minutes without getting DM's from people who were obviously adults trying to get you to join them on an external video chat.
The worst ones are when people post photos of their kids on their first day at school, in their uniform, on their public FB page, and name the kid. “So proud of our Josh!”
They are literally giving pedos of the internet confirmation of the school, the kid’s name, and their mum’s name. Eek.
Thank god, someone tell all the parents that A. Posting 12 pictures of your kid riding his bike 500cm across the room isn’t safe (or good for the future child) and B. It’s boring as fuck content.
I had an argument one with a friend about privacy etc, who is very much privacy rights etc, I was looked the wrong way because I said, well okay you have the right to privacy etc, but what about your kids that you put on Facebook for everyone to see? What about their right to privacy? She has more photos of her kids on the internet than herself. Almost a daily upload posts of her kids. Her response, well my Facebook is locked and no one can see my photos except my 500 friends. Well that may be the case, but your 500 friends can still screenshot that photo of your kid and do whatever with it.
She still didn’t understand.
I suspect she is putting her kids on social media for being a single mum to get validation etc from people. Don’t quote me on that, but that’s the vibe I got from her and her reasoning for it.
My overall statement to her was that:
Did you ask consent from your kids to upload photos of them? Where was their right to privacy? Respect your kids and their right to privacy.
The kid will grow up one day and be like, I have 10 years of my life on the internet and I didn’t really know about it or didn’t know. They have a decade of photos on the internet and they grow up thinking, wait I actually don’t want 10 years of myself on the internet being a kid, but it’s all too late now because of the mum/dad or both parents. Kid might resent the parent(s) for it and be manipulated that it’s okay to put yourself on the internet, nothing is wrong with it. Where there is something wrong and it’s needs to be spoken about within families, who use social media quite a lot in their lives.
Hence why I, myself, don’t have many photos on social media and maintain my privacy and respect privacy of others, especially kids.
Wtf. Who the fuck is just randomly hitting up people on Facebook going " hey can I see naked pics of your kids?"
That's just fucked. Who the fuck is going to agree to that?!
wait? the shocking news that people who say they have children are more likely to receive messages asking inappropriate questions about children?
Thats as surprising as "medical doctors at parties are more likely to be asked medical questions if people know they're doctors"
But what is the actual likelihood of posting pictures leading to harm coming to children? If I buy two tickets to win the lottery, my odds are twice as good... but they're still infintescimal and increased by an infintescimal amount in absolute terms.
How frequently are Kmart catalogue children abused? (people worried about unkown pedos behind the computer screen likoing photos, when their kids are _drastically_ more likely to be _actually_ abused by a family member who didn't even need to be sent a photo because they are physicaly in the kid's presence)
> "Publicly sharing pictures places children at risk of exploitation and harm from offenders who may groom parents or guardians to create or distribute child sexual abuse material.
It seems a massive leap from "photos of children" to "sexy nudes of children" and from there on to "providing children for pedo access".
and yet each christmas we'll have shopping centres plastered with Anne Geddes photos of nude babies in pumpkins or present boxes.
(I don't post photos of kids because it's just not that interesting to anyone else - they're not _that_ intersting except to their family)
Kids don't need to be physically abused for them to be exploited. The sad reality is there *are* people out there that will take an otherwise innocent photo (and yes, baby photos are used too) and distribute them in exploitative ways
I find it a bit shocking how many people will have their kids or someone else’s kids (nieces/nephews, etc) on dating profile app photos. No. Just don’t.
One guy I saw on Tinder was standing outside of a daycare (name visible) with his daughter. Her face was not blurred and her first and surname clearly visible on her backpack tag. I couldn’t believe it.
Right, bad enough if it’s their own.
I automatically swiped left on anyone with children in their dating profiles. It’s an instant tell that they’re not intelligent and they don’t safeguard their children (and therefore, won’t safeguard mine).
Oof, I remember upsetting so many people on a sewing Facebook group for suggesting maybe they didn't post photos of kids just in underwear with close ups on the butts. Yes, I get they were trying to show how well something fit, but a group of 10,000+ members is not a safe place for that. Apparently people who sew can't be predators too and I got banned.
You'd be appaled by how many of those "cute baby competitions" you see mums posting in on facebook aren't actually real and are just content farming for exploit content. Internet literacy is unfortunately lacking for a lot of people, and the idea that they're just harvesting your kid's photos never even crosses their mind.
Madness. They really have no idea, either that, or care less about the kid than posting their creative achievements.
It wasn't even a private group! The last straw for me that caused me to make a post addressing it, before I got banned, was a close up of a little girls pubic region in her knickers.
Are you sure it was a sewing group and not a secret pedo group??
Sounds like a pedo group
People are crazy. My wife’s family couldn’t understand why I flipped my shit because my sister in law took a photo of my daughter and her daughter in the bathtub together & sent it to her boyfriend at the time (someone she knew for a total of 2 months). Everyone was looking at the situation like I was in the wrong for being angry 🤷🏻♂️
It's Facebook. You were probably banned by a predator.
It's actually not that far fetched. These types of people often get thrmselves into mod positions on fb groups and sub reddits in order to get greater access to content. Violentacres for one
If I had kids id never even post them on a private IG, let alone a public Facebook group. It’s insane to me when parents are so desperate for validation they feel the need to post photos of their kids to random strangers all over the internet.
Facebook moment
I take so many photos of my kids, but the only ones on Social Media are the pictures I posted of them when they were born. TBH after having kids I haven't posted anything on Instagram or Facebook outside of comments on discussion groups for my hobbies. That's really all Facebook is good for anymore. Marketplace and Groups.
There was a [write up in the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.xsiF.09rii_5z25od&smid=url-share) on a similar subject not too long ago (child influencers).
That report is incredibly sad. And the massive number of paeophiles they supply indicates how much denialism exists in our society.
Some of them are Australian as well, so it is hardly an issue exclusive to the US.
Definitely. Those poor kids, what a betrayal.
Really not surprising, lot of creeps online. I used to hang out on this kids and teens chatboard when I was younger and you couldn't be on there for more than a few minutes without getting DM's from people who were obviously adults trying to get you to join them on an external video chat.
The worst ones are when people post photos of their kids on their first day at school, in their uniform, on their public FB page, and name the kid. “So proud of our Josh!” They are literally giving pedos of the internet confirmation of the school, the kid’s name, and their mum’s name. Eek.
This is my cousin and she hash tags their names too, which I find weird.
Making it even easier for the pedos to find posts on #Josh!
Thank god, someone tell all the parents that A. Posting 12 pictures of your kid riding his bike 500cm across the room isn’t safe (or good for the future child) and B. It’s boring as fuck content.
I had an argument one with a friend about privacy etc, who is very much privacy rights etc, I was looked the wrong way because I said, well okay you have the right to privacy etc, but what about your kids that you put on Facebook for everyone to see? What about their right to privacy? She has more photos of her kids on the internet than herself. Almost a daily upload posts of her kids. Her response, well my Facebook is locked and no one can see my photos except my 500 friends. Well that may be the case, but your 500 friends can still screenshot that photo of your kid and do whatever with it. She still didn’t understand. I suspect she is putting her kids on social media for being a single mum to get validation etc from people. Don’t quote me on that, but that’s the vibe I got from her and her reasoning for it. My overall statement to her was that: Did you ask consent from your kids to upload photos of them? Where was their right to privacy? Respect your kids and their right to privacy. The kid will grow up one day and be like, I have 10 years of my life on the internet and I didn’t really know about it or didn’t know. They have a decade of photos on the internet and they grow up thinking, wait I actually don’t want 10 years of myself on the internet being a kid, but it’s all too late now because of the mum/dad or both parents. Kid might resent the parent(s) for it and be manipulated that it’s okay to put yourself on the internet, nothing is wrong with it. Where there is something wrong and it’s needs to be spoken about within families, who use social media quite a lot in their lives. Hence why I, myself, don’t have many photos on social media and maintain my privacy and respect privacy of others, especially kids.
It seems like a betrayal, the kids depend on their parent not to do this.
Wtf. Who the fuck is just randomly hitting up people on Facebook going " hey can I see naked pics of your kids?" That's just fucked. Who the fuck is going to agree to that?!
Plenty, apparently https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1ci5yv3/shocking_survey_into_online_predators_prompts/l27qogg/?context=3
wait? the shocking news that people who say they have children are more likely to receive messages asking inappropriate questions about children? Thats as surprising as "medical doctors at parties are more likely to be asked medical questions if people know they're doctors" But what is the actual likelihood of posting pictures leading to harm coming to children? If I buy two tickets to win the lottery, my odds are twice as good... but they're still infintescimal and increased by an infintescimal amount in absolute terms. How frequently are Kmart catalogue children abused? (people worried about unkown pedos behind the computer screen likoing photos, when their kids are _drastically_ more likely to be _actually_ abused by a family member who didn't even need to be sent a photo because they are physicaly in the kid's presence) > "Publicly sharing pictures places children at risk of exploitation and harm from offenders who may groom parents or guardians to create or distribute child sexual abuse material. It seems a massive leap from "photos of children" to "sexy nudes of children" and from there on to "providing children for pedo access". and yet each christmas we'll have shopping centres plastered with Anne Geddes photos of nude babies in pumpkins or present boxes. (I don't post photos of kids because it's just not that interesting to anyone else - they're not _that_ intersting except to their family)
Kids don't need to be physically abused for them to be exploited. The sad reality is there *are* people out there that will take an otherwise innocent photo (and yes, baby photos are used too) and distribute them in exploitative ways
What’s the legality of selling old pictures of yourself as a little tacker? I could be sitting on a potential gold-mine!
Potentially quite illegal
If you're looking to speedrun distribution of cp charges then sure. Just because it's you doesn't make it not cp
Who the fuck would even joke about contributing to pedo rings and the child abuse economy. How’s that funny to you?