Facebook Profile Pictures/ Albums

peewee_44

I will never understand why people think its ok to display hundred thousand photos of there child but not one pic of them, whats that all bout really

Ihatecuddles-old

People like to show their child off to friends and family?

peewee_44

but surely you would include pics of you and your baby

131spanner

People post up stuff relating to their lives and interests. Photos of their car, their work, family and kids, holidays or places they've been, nights out with friends, whatever.

Facebook would be pretty boring if it was all just mug-shot type stuff. It's often boring enough as it is

Irish Guitarist

I'll never understand why people constantly complain about what other people do on Facebook. If you don't like it just remove them from your friend list.

padd b1975

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I'll never understand why people constantly complain about what other people do on Facebook. If you don't like it just remove them from your friend list.

Not really that simple.

Stuff can appear on your timeline if your friends comment on it.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I always worry a bit when I see people putting up heaps of public pics of their small child for some paranoid reason.

A few months ago, a very pretty friend had her photos stolen and someone set up a profile using her photos. From that page, one of her "friends" was one of my close friends photos, so clicked onto that page, and there was SO MANY photos of my friend and her boyfriend, but lots of photos of a baby boy, whoever had stolen my friends photos, had obviously stolen baby photos somewhere and pretended it was her life?

Some weirdos out there. Don't really agree with putting your entire life on social media websites, you don't know who's lurking or what kind of weirdo you're friends with

blacklilly

Personally if I had a child I wouldn't display countless pictures of them on fb or any nieces/nephews for that matter. I'm just not comfortable with the idea. If you've fb, then you'll also have an e-mail which is a far more private way to share pictures.
I've a friend, she had a baby about 5 months ago, this is not an exaggeration but everyday without fail she'll post at least another two pictures of her child. Usually one first thing in the morning and one in the evening. That's a lot of pictures.
I don't put up pictures of my friends without having consulted them first (I expect the same from them) so the idea of displaying pictures of a baby/child just doesn't float with me.

dimal

Childrens' photo posting is just one of the ways of collecting "likes". People like to be liked.

rougegal

blacklilly wrote: »

Personally if I had a child I wouldn't display countless pictures of them on fb or any nieces/nephews for that matter. I'm just not comfortable with the idea. If you've fb, then you'll also have an e-mail which is a far more private way to share pictures.
I've a friend, she had a baby about 5 months ago, this is not an exaggeration but everyday without fail she'll post at least another two pictures of her child. Usually one first thing in the morning and one in the evening. That's a lot of pictures.
I don't put up pictures of my friends without having consulted them first (I expect the same from them) so the idea of displaying pictures of a baby/child just doesn't float with me.

Completely agree with you on this. Another one that drives me crazy is people checking in to places on FB....and worse still checking me in without asking me first!

blacklilly

rougegal wrote: »

Completely agree with you on this. Another one that drives me crazy is people checking in to places on FB....and worse still checking me in without asking me first!

Yea its really annoying alright, some people just take it for granted that because you're on fb you don't mind being tagged, checked in etc.
But you can change your settings to not permit anyone to check you i

crybaby

blacklilly wrote: »

I don't put up pictures of my friends without having consulted them first (I expect the same from them) so the idea of displaying pictures of a baby/child just doesn't float with me
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What a horrible word we must live in if it has come to people being afraid to post up some pics of their baby for family and friends

simonsays1

crybaby wrote: »

What a horrible word we must live in if it has come to people being afraid to post up some pics of their baby for family and friends

But why don't they just email these loved ones with the photos instead?

blacklilly

crybaby wrote: »

What a horrible word we must live in if it has come to people being afraid to post up some pics of their baby for family and friends

Crybaby, yes what a horrible world. I trust my family and friends 100%, i do not however trust the other 100 million users of the internet and I'm not naive enough to believe that just because I've my fb set as private that my pictures are not in the hands of people I don't know.
I'm an adult, I have the ability to make my own decisions based upon conscious thought and consideration, a baby/child does not have this ability and therefore I'm not going to exploit that.

Beefy78

simonsays1 wrote: »

But why don't they just email these loved ones with the photos instead?

Why should they? Who uses email to communicate with friends nowadays anyway? Facebook is so much easier.

I do kinda get the point as my Facebook feed is far too full of photos of my friends' kids but I understand why. They're proud of their children and want to show them off to all of their friends and family including the ones whose email addresses they don't know.

hardCopy

What makes it weird is when they're too shy/paranoid/self-conscious to post pictures of themselves yet they'll happily document every moment of their child's life without recognising that maybe someday the child will be equally shy/self-conscious.

No pics at all, I can understand
Lots of pics of you and child, I can understand
No pics of you, lots of your child, weird

Beefy78

No you're right, that is weird. But then I think some people have kids and then define their life by their children to the point where that's the only thing that matters to them. That's what I've observed from some people anyway.

Not having kids myself it's difficult to put myself in their position.

Mint Sauce

If your not on FB, and I take a picture of you in it, it does not go up.

Thats my current rule when it comes to posting stuff.

Cee-Jay-Cee

peewee_44 wrote: »

I will never understand why people think its ok to display hundred thousand photos of there child but not one pic of them, whats that all bout really

But surely if you are able to view their profile/photos then you are on their friends list and so therefore actually know them and know what they look like so why would you want to see pictures of them???

4zn76tysfajdxp

I think it's a bit of an invasion of a kid's privacy to have an endless stream of photographs posted on Facebook documenting every moment of their lives. Most people do it moderately but sometimes you do see some lunatics posting two or three pictures a day.

Balmed Out

It bugs me too, anyone have a lot of American or Asian friends on facebook? Seems perfectly normal for the Americans to announce pregnancy by posting pictures of the first scan while the small sample size of 2 vietnamese and 2 Japanese friends constantly post pictures of their dinner which again I dont get.

Mooby

It's just an easy way of keeping friends and family up to date with your kids and their progress. If you don't want to see friend's posts you can unsubscribe from some of their updates, there's never really a need to unfriend anyone, you have a lot of control over what you allow others to see and what you see in you newsfeed.

Ace2007

CJC999 wrote: »

But surely if you are able to view their profile/photos then you are on their friends list and so therefore actually know them and know what they look like so why would you want to see pictures of them???

If you think you need to be a friend to see a persons photos you really should start reading up on the privacy settings on FB

Beefy78

Ace2007 wrote: »

If you think you need to be a friend to see a persons photos you really should start reading up on the privacy settings on FB

But that wasn't what they said or meant.

Ace2007

Beefy78 wrote: »

But that wasn't what they said or meant.

Please explain what else the below means

But surely if you are able to view their profile/photos then you are on their friends list

IvyTheTerrible

I only put up a photo of my baby son maybe every 3 months, just to let my friends know how he's getting on (a lot of my friends are all over the world, skype is not possible with time difference and a small child's sleeping hours!).
I have a private picasa thing where I put a number of photos every month just for the immediate family.
The rest of the photos are just for me, his dad and him when he's older.
I honestly don't agree with putting hundreds of photos of him on FB, he doesn't have a choice in the matter so it wouldn't be fair.

Call Me Jimmy

padd b1975 wrote: »

Not really that simple.

Stuff can appear on your timeline if your friends comment on it.

Dear god, stuff appearing on your timeline! How will you cope?!

NoClues

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I only put up a photo of my baby son maybe every 3 months, just to let my friends know how he's getting on (a lot of my friends are all over the world, skype is not possible with time difference and a small child's sleeping hours!).
I have a private picasa thing where I put a number of photos every month just for the immediate family.
The rest of the photos are just for me, his dad and him when he's older.
I honestly don't agree with putting hundreds of photos of him on FB, he doesn't have a choice in the matter so it wouldn't be fair.

He also doesn't have a choice in you putting pictures of him on the internet every 3 months.

Mr. CooL ICE

Hmm, almost every profile picture I've had has been a photo of Nicolas Cage's face photoshopped onto something. If any potential employers use facebook for a background check, they're gonna be awfully confused.

IvyTheTerrible

NoClues wrote: »

He also doesn't have a choice in you putting pictures of him on the internet every 3 months.

Fair enough, but it's harder to filter maybe 6 photos out of all the stuff I post, than someone who's posting hundreds of baby photos. Also the photos are innocuous, not naked in the bath photos that I see other mums posting.

Cd_doe

It's very annoying.

"Mary has updated her status "going to the park with my baby" 5 hours ago.

"Mary has uploaded 300 photos" 2 hours ago.

Yup. 300 photos of her little bastard standing next to different things in the park..

Duggy747

Well, you can easily tell which one of my female friends have kids. Almost every single one of them have their entire online profile dedicated to the kid(s) with profile, cover, album photos and status updates all about the children, like some sort of Truman Show about their child.

Or, you'd swear it was the baby posting all this shìt up.

Just an observation on how similar all my friends have done the exact same thing in how their child is advertised off to the rest of us.

remsburgsgirl

NoClues wrote: »

He also doesn't have a choice in you putting pictures of him on the internet every 3 months.

I don't see this as a big deal, a pic every 3 months, honestly I can't see anybody really growing up to give a sh*t about their baby pic being on (private) on Facebook, shared with a family member somewhere else in the world...all my bro's & sis's are abroad & miss out on our 9 year old growing up so fast....have never met our youngest & won't meet our newbie for a long time either, I think it is nice for them to be able to keep up with how they are getting on, what they look like etc...it's the only relationship they'll be able to build with them abroad using that & things like Skype.

Your baby doesn't have a choice when someone, someone documenting a party for example, points a camera at him/her & takes a photograph, that could also end up anywhere in years to come

Beefy78

Ace2007 wrote: »

Please explain what else the below means

It means what the rest of the sentence says which for some reason you have cut out. The point being made was that if you're friends with someone why do you need to see pictures of them as you know what they look like.

canadianwoman

Cd_doe wrote: »

It's very annoying.

"Mary has updated her status "going to the park with my baby" 5 hours ago.

"Mary has uploaded 300 photos" 2 hours ago.

Yup. 300 photos of her little bastard standing next to different things in the park..

Time to unfriend Mary methinks.

iMac_Hunt

rougegal wrote: »

Completely agree with you on this. Another one that drives me crazy is people checking in to places on FB....and worse still checking me in without asking me first!

This doesn't annoy me but it does baffle me. People checking in while they're abroad "enjoying my holiday with the family" with x, y and z at Playa Des Ingles. Increases the possibility of your house being cleared out by thieves while you're away.

FurQyou

Do people realise that those pictures are owned by facebook after being uploaded?

Big Davey

Will you pm me a link to your "very pretty" friends facebook page lol






]I always worry a bit when I see people putting







up heaps of public pics of their small child for some paranoid reason.

A few months ago, a very pretty friend had her photos stolen and someone set up a profile using her photos. From that page, one of her "friends" was one of my close friends photos, so clicked onto that page, and there was SO MANY photos of my friend and her boyfriend, but lots of photos of a baby boy, whoever had stolen my friends photos, had obviously stolen baby photos somewhere and pretended it was her life?

Some weirdos out there. Don't really agree with putting your entire life on social media websites, you don't know who's lurking or what kind of weirdo you're friends with[/QUOTE]

Ace2007

Beefy78 wrote: »

It means what the rest of the sentence says which for some reason you have cut out. The point being made was that if you're friends with someone why do you need to see pictures of them as you know what they look like.

I was pointing out to the poster that you DO NOT need to be friends with someone to see their photo's.

Cd_doe

canadianwoman wrote: »

Time to unfriend Mary methinks.

I'd probably hear less about the fu*ker if I just added him as a friend instead of her

Beefy78

Ace2007 wrote: »

I was pointing out to the poster that you DO NOT need to be friends with someone to see their photo's.

I know!! But the poster didn't say that you did need to.

Lando Griffin

A friend of mine had a baby last year and a few days after the christening a friend who attended the christening party had about 30-40 photos of the child and the guests up on facebook.
They had a fallen out over it as the guest couldnt understand why the mother didnt want people seeing her baby and party guests on FB.

Ace2007

Beefy78 wrote: »

I know!! But the poster didn't say that you did need to.

Yes they did - read the first sentence

Beefy78

Oh my word. I don't understand how you're continually misinterpreting that post.

Yes - you could take those few words to mean what you're saying they mean and yes you're right about Facebook privacy settings and the fact that you can see photos of people who are not on your friends list but that was not the point that the guy was making as is clear from the context of the rest of the post.

Ace2007

Beefy78 wrote: »

Oh my word. I don't understand how you're continually misinterpreting that post.

Yes - you could take those few words to mean what you're saying they mean

:rolleyes: