So a friend just had a baby boy and they posted pics RIGHT AWAY. One was a head to toe shot showing everything. I don't have kids so can't really relate. It just seems, um, inappropriate, I guess.
What do you guys think? Would you post a naked pic of your newborn for the internet to see? Is this normal?
I wouldn't post it on facebook, unless my privacy settings were such that only close friends and family could see it. Actually I probably would share pictures of my baby naked with very few people.
In some areas getting naked photos of children developed by labs at walmart or walgreens can get result in the police or family services knocking at your door.
Showing everything? No, I wouldn't do it. But if their legs were curled up so you couldn't see any genitals or if it's a baby butt, I wouldn't think twice about seeing it in my newsfeed. Not sure if I would post them myself.
I think it's a shame that so many people are seeing pedophiles around every corner that it's not safe to share naked-baby pictures. I have pictures of myself as the 'naked baby on the bearskin rug.'
Unfortunately, there are some sick f#cks out there. Personally, I think they all need to be rounded up and dropped on a deserted island out on the middle of the ocean, so they can never get to another child again. But I also think that it's a terrible thing that anyone cuddling/tickling/hugging a child might be looked at suspiciously.
I worked with a man a few years back who was single and like working with kids. Nothing weird or creepy, he just enjoyed being around them.
He was refused by his church, the Boy Scouts and about every other group that has volunteers working with kids. They all said it wasn't that they didn't trust him, but they had to avoid the appearance of anything hinky and apparently a single man with no kids is suspicious.
So I get that it isn't too strange and I just figured that the parents have privacy settings in place since I never saw it reposted (we have a ton of friends in common). I didn't think too much else about it until yesterday when a friend of mine commented on a similar pic (newborn boy, genitals showing) of someone that I don't know. The pic and all the comments showed up on my newsfeed. Of someone that isn't even a friend of mine!! I really could not believe it, now that just seems ridiculous.
I get wanting to show off your baby but geez, check your privacy settings!!
I just checked, the person that commented has 419 friends. So that pic went out to 418 strangers if they had no friends in common.
Yeah, I have all my set to the strictest privacy possible. I am job hunting and do not want a potential employer to see any of that crap. I do need to adjust my newsfeed settings though. I usually just wait until someone annoys me and then I block them, lol.
Back to the op, I was also thinking about the kid - when he gets old enough to use the internet, is he or his friends going to find that pic? I know it is a stretch but I would be mad if there were naked baby pics of me online!
I have naked photos of my children when they were babies. And by "babies" I mean younger than 6 months old. But I would not post those photos on FB or share them with anyone other than the immediate family.
I'd have a difficult time getting worked up over baby pics. I have the cutest full frontal of my #3 when she was maybe 2 years old.
The child loved stickers so I purchased the biggest book of stickers I could find so we could play stickers in the afternoons. Of course the one day I didn't put the book out of her reach she took off all of her clothes and put stickers all over her body. If she could reach it she put a sticker there.
There's no way I wasn't taking pictures of that. In fact, I took her in the backyard for better lighting.
I sent a few copies to the grandparents and framed one put it on top of the bookcase. I think of my fb wall the same as my livingroom. My friends are welcome to come in and see my photos. Except I only keep my favorite photos displayed in my home. Fb has hundreds
