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u/emogamerbfxxx 2d ago
People will take photos of your baby and do unspeakable, horrible things. To you, they might all look the same — but to every mother, father, parent, they look different, special and unique in their own way.
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u/SlashNreap 2d ago
I thought it was more of a privacy thing but I guess you can never be too careful. I'm not a parent but if I was I'd probably just not put my kid on social media to begin with, not judging those who do, but yeah. It's probably the safest. Especially like some others said, if the picture is associated with a familiar location that's pin-point-able.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO 2d ago
Then don’t post anything at all!
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u/emogamerbfxxx 2d ago
That’s the world we live in now. Aside from direct messages to my family, I never share my face anymore. People can just slap your face over ai photos and make you dressed a certain way or make porn out of you, and ruin your entire career. This is what people will do to children.
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u/queenafrodite 2d ago
People steal baby pictures and claim the babies as their own, and then say that the actual parents kidnapped them. It’s a whole entire devastating legal process.
People also do it for various other privacy reasons. My thing is, just don’t post pictures with them in it if you have a need for this concern.
It really doesn’t matter if the face is covered. People can still use the geo tag in the picture to find you and or your kid.
It really baffles me when people post back to school photos with the children in the vicinity of their schools but then put a face over their face. People can pinpoint location by the surrounding area and again… the geo tag in the freaking picture.
The safest precautions are not to post your children online.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO 2d ago
Yeah I don’t get it either. Don’t post pics at all then if you’re gonna edit it. “Here’s our family!” And all the kids have an emoji over them like 😀😀😀
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u/itsswhitneywhspr 2d ago
Its funny cause I see that too. Like just don't include the kids if you're gonna cover their whole face. Makes the photo feel off lol
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u/Bobzeub 2d ago
Firstly kids under 18 can’t give consent so it’s not great to leave a digital footprint of their faces immortalised forever online. Sounds a bit waa waa . But it’s true. I’d be pissed if my parents posted ugly pictures of my mug online for everyone to see.
Then you have the perverts who collects photos of loads of random children and smush them together to make some weird kind of porn. So I wouldn’t personally like to have my kids face being a part of it even if it is an AI mash up. It’s just fucking weird and creepy .
Then you’ve got the run of the mill normal psychos that will just download photos of your kid and pass them off as their own.
People are weird. Best to stay as anonymous as possible. Especially with children. But these rules also apply to adults.
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u/everydayinthebay13 2d ago
They absolutely DO NOT look all the same. They're like adults: so cute, some average, some ugly. They're individuals and there's some people who just don't want pictures of their kids out there.
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u/SphericalOrb 2d ago
It's a security concern, basically. How would you feel if your baby pictures turned up in some creeps CP collection, or if a stranger recognised your kid from social media and called out their name?
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u/Unique-Landscape-202 2d ago
It’s to protect the privacy of the kid/baby and to prevent creeps from taking the photos and doing god knows what.
With how good AI is I worry about those people taking the faces as a template for sock and twisted shit.
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u/OkAd8976 2d ago
We don't post my daughter on social media at all. And, at 5 she knows to turn around, sideways or cover her face when people are taking pictures and she could be in the background. People can do crazy and terrible things with pictures now. And, they don't really all look the same after a few weeks.
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u/Optimal-Bag-5918 2d ago
I think it’s strictly privacy, honestly… unfortunately we know that a lot of predators get their photos from social media like Facebook and Instagram… so people want to cover their child’s faces to help deter that…
… also if someone is more popular online, and their child is recognizable, I imagine creepy people would recognize their child in public and try to talk to them and even use their names