Sharing Photos

[frlcb]

Facebook sadly that is true. More Instagram these days though. And I have a blog but I don't update it as often as I used to. Do you have an iPhone? You could create a photostream with your family.

[frlcb]

You can't share instagram photos, or if you can it is very, very difficult. Can you just tell them if they share photos you won't let them see future photos? You may have to be blunt about it.

[lin]

I do post a few on FB, but more often I'll just email some pictures to my parents, DH's parents - others who are more interested in seeing pictures of my baby than most of FB is. I guess email attachments are a bit old school now, though. But if your DH's family is posting pictures and you don't want them to, I would definitely talk to them about it. My SIL is very strict about not posting any pictures of my niece on the internet and she has been known to call people and ask them to remove pictures that had her daughter in them. It's a bit much if you ask me, but as the parent your wishes should be respected.

[potatopie]

we do FB but we have a private family group so I can put up as many videos and photos without feeling too AW with all my friends.

also, you can send photos direct to specific people on Instagram so not everyone sees every post.

[MauMau]

I think you can lock down the FB photos. So they can't be directly shared. But that wouldn't stop them from finding away to try and save and share.

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Some through Facebook, but also via email. We've been doing a lot of Facebook lately and our friends are probably starting to get a little sick of all the baby photos!

My parents, grandparents, and in-laws all have digital photo frames that are wifi-enabled, so we can email photos directly to the frame and it alerts them that they have a new photo from us.

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Also, you can change your FB settings so your photos can only be seen by your own friends. Even if someone shares it, only your mutual friends will see it. Just don't tag anyone, because then all of THEIR friends will be able to see it too, and if their photos are set to "friends of friends" then quickly the whole world sees your photos.

Email might be your best bet....but keep in mind they can a still forward an email or print out the photos an show them around.

[MauMau]

May 17, 2014 3:00:19 GMT -5 @villainv said:

Some through Facebook, but also via email. We've been doing a lot of Facebook lately and our friends are probably starting to get a little sick of all the baby photos!

My parents, grandparents, and in-laws all have digital photo frames that are wifi-enabled, so we can email photos directly to the frame and it alerts them that they have a new photo from us.

That frame is awesome! How cool.

[blushing]

We have a private facebook group. When DS was little though I would do a weekly email with photo's. It was time consuming, but worked.

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May 17, 2014 15:04:43 GMT -5 neeps said:

My FB is locked down tight. It's when they share my photos on their own pages that I get annoyed because their pages are bloody freaking sieves to the world. I did ask them to take a specific picture down (one I took and they took the liberty of stealing). This is a recent development and one I wasn't really expecting so trying to find a workaround.

@villainv That frame is genius. I'll look into something like that.

They all have Kodak frames, but I don't think Kodak makes them anymore (I guess nobody outside my family bought them!).  It looks like Pandigital makes one though.

[MauMau]

May 17, 2014 15:04:43 GMT -5 neeps said:

My FB is locked down tight. It's when they share my photos on their own pages that I get annoyed because their pages are bloody freaking sieves to the world. I did ask them to take a specific picture down (one I took and they took the liberty of stealing). This is a recent development and one I wasn't really expecting so trying to find a workaround.

@villainv That frame is genius. I'll look into something like that.

Just so I understand. Are they clocking the share button and putting it on their page. Or are they saving the photo and posting?

[MauMau]

May 17, 2014 16:37:28 GMT -5 neeps said:

May 17, 2014 15:27:44 GMT -5 MauMau said:

Just so I understand. Are they clocking the share button and putting it on their page. Or are they saving the photo and posting?

We didn't put it on FB in the first place. I know that even if they share one of my photos my privacy controls are in charge. 

Ugh. Got it.

[potatopie]

Oh my god. A digital frame like that, @villainv, would be amazing for MIL. She doesn't know how to use a computer, but there's wifi at her house for all of us when we visit. We should totally set something up for her. She would stare at it all day!

[marina007]

I have a shared stream on iCloud, which is great, but in order to view photos you have to have an apple device...

[paradebegone]

We have a photostream for family and friends. I also do instagram since you can't just share those.

We do post to FB; although, I TRY to limit those. I don't trust FB at all. My setting are for friends only and I even have a limited list of people that I don't share anything with at all. But even still, my mom shared a picture that I posted that a friend of her's then posted and that just freaked me out. Even though only mutual friends should be able to see it, I had a non-FB friend test it out and she was able to see/share it as well. I just don't see any real safe way to post stuff on FB.

[frlcb]

This is not snarky, I promise, but what is everyone concerned with if a picture is seen on FB? I realize we are clearly the opposite of what is being posted in here (I have blogs and post on FB) but I always feel like I am missing something when people are adamant that their kids pictures are nowhere on the internet at all

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May 18, 2014 4:00:38 GMT -5 potatopie said:

Oh my god. A digital frame like that, @villainv, would be amazing for MIL. She doesn't know how to use a computer, but there's wifi at her house for all of us when we visit. We should totally set something up for her. She would stare at it all day!

It's great for people who aren't very tech-savvy.  And you can give the email address to the whole family so everyone can send photos.  The bonus is that once they go to the frame, they can't be "forwarded" to anyone else, so no "sharing" with the whole world.  

[paradebegone]

May 18, 2014 6:36:28 GMT -5 frlcb said:

This is not snarky, I promise, but what is everyone concerned with if a picture is seen on FB? I realize we are clearly the opposite of what is being posted in here (I have blogs and post on FB) but I always feel like I am missing something when people are adamant that their kids pictures are nowhere on the internet at all

For me, I have a concern about online predators and pedophiles having such easy access to my child.  This stuff never goes away or really gets deleted so it's out there for-e-ver.  So, I feel like I have to take some responsibility for sharing my child with strangers, especially without her consent.  I wonder how she'll feel about how much I've shared later on in life.  

I also have a concern about over-sharing on social media.  I LOVE seeing pictures and posts of other babies and kids.  But not everyone does.  I also like to think there's more to me than just my child.... although, I'm not so sure most days.

[frlcb]

May 18, 2014 15:10:12 GMT -5 paradebegone said:

May 18, 2014 6:36:28 GMT -5 frlcb said:

This is not snarky, I promise, but what is everyone concerned with if a picture is seen on FB? I realize we are clearly the opposite of what is being posted in here (I have blogs and post on FB) but I always feel like I am missing something when people are adamant that their kids pictures are nowhere on the internet at all

For me, I have a concern about online predators and pedophiles having such easy access to my child.  This stuff never goes away or really gets deleted so it's out there for-e-ver.  So, I feel like I have to take some responsibility for sharing my child with strangers, especially without her consent.  I wonder how she'll feel about how much I've shared later on in life.  

I also have a concern about over-sharing on social media.  I LOVE seeing pictures and posts of other babies and kids.  But not everyone does.  I also like to think there's more to me than just my child.... although, I'm not so sure most days.

Thanks for answering. I feel like my thoughts on it are so different that I don't really get it but I appreciate the beauty of being able to make that decision as parents

[pittpurple]

We have a private group on FB but I'm actually thinking I'm going to set up a general Gmail account and load all the photos onto there so our families can print what they like.

There's really no way to stop people from sharing photos once you have them online, all they have to do is download the photo or just print screen and they can share anything. I'm not worried about it (with you frlcb). Any stranger can take a picture any time of day in the street and do whatever they like with it since everyone has camera phones nowadays so I can't protect her anyway. I might as well get the cute pictures out there too!

But of course, your kid - your rules. I have a friend who isn't on FB and doesn't want any pictures of her kid up there. So the cute pictures I have of our kids playing together are just for me.

[GilliC]

Modern take on old school solution:
I'm always seeing Groupon deals for online photobooks. Maybe you could just make a few cheap ones each year and mail them? Shutterfly has a lot of buy one get one free kinds of offers if you're making multiples of the same book, and in the past they've had some little paperback versions that would be easy to mail yourself.

[americaninoz]

I barely put any pics of dd on Facebook
I do post almost weekly on my blog though. My famy and dhs too love it, it's not private but you could set it up that way. I just only have first names, don't say exactly where we live etc

[blushing]

My mom posts the photo's I send her on Whatsapp and posts them on Facebook. This is a new thing for her so I am seriously considering one of those frames. Thanks for posting about them.

(I have no problems with photo's of DS on Facebook, just I would prefer to choose which ones go on and which ones are just for family. My mom recently shared photo's of my 29 year old sister in a bikini on Facebook even after my sister had asked my mom not too and I know she does it because she is proud, but it's still uncomfortable)

[gibbylod]

I set up a folder in dropbox and shared with family. This allows me to add or delete photos as I choose and it's not there for the whole world to see like on FB, though it doesn't prevent them from posting them.

[Cheesecake]

Facebook, and I've told people not to share the pictures (and told them that of they do, I'll unfriend them.) So far it's worked well. People are slowly stopping the constant asking whether they can share them.

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