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I don't think that's the problem. You know how cruel kids can be. Imagine your classmates in 4th grade would find pictures of you bathing naked. There simply i

I don't think that's the problem. You know how cruel kids can be. Imagine your classmates in 4th grade would find pictures of you bathing naked. There simply is no good reason to share such photos publicly/online. Show them to your friends on your phone if you really ahve to. "Once uploaded, a picture stays forever". There are plenty of cases where embarrassing pictures went viral and destroyed whole lifes.

scotty79 13y ago
> You know how cruel kids can be. Imagine your classmates in 4th grade would find pictures of you bathing naked. Kids will take any reason they can find to pick on somebody if they feel like picking on somebody. Anything that sets their victim apart from them. They might pick on your kid exactly because there's no pictures of him on the web. They might infer from that that he's adopted, his parent's can afford computer, his parent beat him so badly as a child that they couldn't post his pictures because police would lock them up and so on. You don't fight crime by second guessing criminals. You don't fight bullies by trying to imagine what excuse bullies would use to attack your kid. You just fight them as they show up. > There are plenty of cases where embarrassing pictures went viral and destroyed whole lifes. Same argument might be posed against anything that is even remotely fun or public or both. There are some people who gained massively from their pictures or videos going viral and overwhelming amount of people who gained or lost exactly nothing.
- ne0phyte 13y ago
  > Kids will take any reason they can find to pick on somebody if they feel like picking on somebody. Anything that sets their victim apart from them. Then why add even more fuel to the fire? >Same argument might be posed against anything that is even remotely fun or public or both. There are some people who gained massively from their pictures or videos going viral and overwhelming amount of people who gained or lost exactly nothing. Yes, it was advantageous to some people that their video/s or picture/s went viral. But what does the chance of that happening have to do with people posting pictures of their half-naked kids? Would you want your kid to become a meme that gets posted everywhere? Of course there is the chance that things a kid does in public can be embarrassing, too, but again: what does that have to do with the chance that some picture or video that _your parents_ shared online starts to gain traction? Oh and I'm 20 years old so I obviously don't have kids yet. I just know what it feels like to get bullied.
  - scotty79 13y ago
    > Then why add even more fuel to the fire? To find where the fire comes from and squash the source. > But what does the chance of that happening have to do with people posting pictures of their half-naked kids? Would you want your kid to become a meme that gets posted everywhere? I'd argue that chances of being significantly harmed are pretty much the same as being significantly enriched. Both extremely low.
    - LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
      The problem is these are your pictures, or rather pictures of your baby and now you have no control over them what-so-ever. Facebook owns your baby pictures. Period. If you're fine with that and happy about it - good luck. But it is good that someone is doing just that - stating that your baby pictures posted on Facebook are owned by Facebook and you have absolutely no control over them in the future no matter what.
      - scotty79 13y ago
        You can't control anything that has been released to the public. Lawyers think they can. People who believe in lawyers thing they can. But they really can't. It's good that people try to raise awareness about the fact that you can't control information you released. I just don't share the 'hide yo kids, hide yo wife' sentiment. All that said, I personally share very little and don't really get why people post things on Facebook.
        LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
        Releasing to public == posting on Facebook ? true? So, maybe that's the point the blogger is making. Hey, I didn't understand that positing on Facebook is the same thing like releasing to the public. Now, that I thought about it, no, I don't want to release my children pictures to the whole world for the whole of eternity. Sounds reasonable to me.

scotty79 13y ago

> You know how cruel kids can be. Imagine your classmates in 4th grade would find pictures of you bathing naked. Kids will take any reason they can find to pick on somebody if they feel like picking on somebody. Anything that sets their victim apart from them. They might pick on your kid exactly because there's no pictures of him on the web. They might infer from that that he's adopted, his parent's can afford computer, his parent beat him so badly as a child that they couldn't post his pictures because police would lock them up and so on. You don't fight crime by second guessing criminals. You don't fight bullies by trying to imagine what excuse bullies would use to attack your kid. You just fight them as they show up. > There are plenty of cases where embarrassing pictures went viral and destroyed whole lifes. Same argument might be posed against anything that is even remotely fun or public or both. There are some people who gained massively from their pictures or videos going viral and overwhelming amount of people who gained or lost exactly nothing.

ne0phyte 13y ago
> Kids will take any reason they can find to pick on somebody if they feel like picking on somebody. Anything that sets their victim apart from them. Then why add even more fuel to the fire? >Same argument might be posed against anything that is even remotely fun or public or both. There are some people who gained massively from their pictures or videos going viral and overwhelming amount of people who gained or lost exactly nothing. Yes, it was advantageous to some people that their video/s or picture/s went viral. But what does the chance of that happening have to do with people posting pictures of their half-naked kids? Would you want your kid to become a meme that gets posted everywhere? Of course there is the chance that things a kid does in public can be embarrassing, too, but again: what does that have to do with the chance that some picture or video that _your parents_ shared online starts to gain traction? Oh and I'm 20 years old so I obviously don't have kids yet. I just know what it feels like to get bullied.
- scotty79 13y ago
  > Then why add even more fuel to the fire? To find where the fire comes from and squash the source. > But what does the chance of that happening have to do with people posting pictures of their half-naked kids? Would you want your kid to become a meme that gets posted everywhere? I'd argue that chances of being significantly harmed are pretty much the same as being significantly enriched. Both extremely low.
  - LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
    The problem is these are your pictures, or rather pictures of your baby and now you have no control over them what-so-ever. Facebook owns your baby pictures. Period. If you're fine with that and happy about it - good luck. But it is good that someone is doing just that - stating that your baby pictures posted on Facebook are owned by Facebook and you have absolutely no control over them in the future no matter what.
    - scotty79 13y ago
      You can't control anything that has been released to the public. Lawyers think they can. People who believe in lawyers thing they can. But they really can't. It's good that people try to raise awareness about the fact that you can't control information you released. I just don't share the 'hide yo kids, hide yo wife' sentiment. All that said, I personally share very little and don't really get why people post things on Facebook.
      - LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
        Releasing to public == posting on Facebook ? true? So, maybe that's the point the blogger is making. Hey, I didn't understand that positing on Facebook is the same thing like releasing to the public. Now, that I thought about it, no, I don't want to release my children pictures to the whole world for the whole of eternity. Sounds reasonable to me.