Too old for Facebook nudity?

Psycho fitness TEA baggers

 

I wouldn't even post a bum photo of my newborn on Facebook. Too many creeps out there. Don't post pics of your kids undressed on the internet, people. Just don't.

 

This. Your friends may think it's cute, and that's what you're going for. But once it's out there, it's out there, and there are an infinite number of variables that determine where that goes and what it looks like.

I've been thinking about this thread since my earlier post, and I remembered that a few days ago a friend of mine posted on facebook a picture of his daughter (she's 8 or 9 years old) in a museum in front of a display of dildoes in a variety of color and pattern schemes. It struck me as extremely ill-concieved to do that. I'd have been rushing my kid away from that display as fast as humanly possible. He stopped to take a picture.

There is some measure of living in fear that goes along with all this. Protective parental instincts can cross the line between rational protective judgement and abject, hermit-inducing fear. What it comes down to me is simply this: Don't court trouble. Life, and parenting in particular, is hard enough without inviting difficulties. Posting nudies of your kids seems to be asking for it.

 

I should be used to it but I am still stunned at what people will post about their kids on line, pictures stories, etc.

I think it is mostly harmless but at some point wouldn't you want to give your kid a chance to have a say in their digital footprint? There is a dad blogger/mediocre radio DJ in my city who posts non stop pics and stories about his kids, really think he is trying to build his "dad brand". I just think that you should give your kids some small dose of their privacy as well.

Seems over posting on social media is like being the new stage parent.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/the-cost-of-sally-manns-exposure.html

 

Too long, didn't read; the smug self-absorption and complete disingenuousness became unbearable after the first 50-100 inches or so.

For my part, last year I precipitated a fairly serious extended-family row when a sister of an in-law of an in-law began posting cute-bathroom pictures of her grade school daughter on Facebook.

It got into my feed by being forwarded or shared by one of the in laws, and I didn't like the idea of nude grade school girls in my timeline so I sent out a firm and polite response that I didn't believe such pics were appropriate for any but very immediate family and asking future photos be discreet.

WELL, this offended Ms. In-Law of In-Law, who fired off a few huffy status updates harrumphing about the "uptights" who "can't handle nudity without shame," and then proceeded to step up the kid nudity-- instead of butt shots, now straight ahead, and ignoring the fact the kid was no longer in lower primary grades but approaching junior high.

After a couple of these I decided to fuck diplomacy, sent a Starman Justice style posting to her wall pointing out that she was free to take whatever pictures she felt like of her own children but I didn't appreciate receiving unsolicited photos of nude children, I hereby demanded it cease immediately, and blocked her from my feed permanently.

I guess I won't be invited to any of the extended in-laws of the in-laws any time soon, or ever, and that's fine.

 

Is she vegan? You'll miss those party spreads.

 

Dick, I would tell your "acquaintance" that picking peppers toppers could expose her child to ticks.

Solves the problem without you sounding like a ... Richard. Oh, and you can easily do it as a limerick, which is even more festive.

 

Jesus. Approaching junior high? I think that's about when my bush hair popped out.

 

Let's just say the kid was not a toddler any more and I did not want any nude kiddie pics on my FB feed to be found by anyone ever, so I delivered a rather forceful update to that effect.

I don't know directly what the earth-mama mama said about it because I blocked her from my account, but apparently she got horribly huffy about people being "judgmental." But I guess over the course of the next several weeks a few dozen people unfriended her (including all of my extended family), basically to disassociate themselves from unsolicited borderline kiddie porn.

 

Well, you kind of have to, because you don't want the Feds knocking on your door. Plus, " Starman - sex offender" doesn't have a nice ring to it.

 

I didn't think so either.