Well, my case may be a little different because I am a very public person, but I am adamant that my children not be identified in public by name/photo until they’re a little older (they’re now 6 and 13). Yeah, there’s the safety factor, but that one doesn’t really keep me awake at night, although it’s a non-zero worry.
But simpler than that: I think that exercising some control over how you’re presented to the world on the Net is a huge advantage in this life, and I want that advantage for my children. So I’m going to keep them out of the public eye until they’re old enough to have a reasonable chance to make reasonable choices. That’s all. -T On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >> >> I'm going to hijack your post in a slightly different direction. My >> sibling has been rather adamant about not posting photos of zir child in >> public places. What do other people think about that attitude? > > I think that parents should have the right to say whether pictures of their > kids can be posted. However, your sibling is looking for a solution to a > problem that does not exist. Your sibling might as well worry about the kid > being hit by a meteor. I am willing to bet that more children, as of this > week, have been injured by meteors this year than have been abducted by > strangers shopping around from pictures during the entire history of the > internet. I don't actually know of any cases of someone finding a picture of > a child on the web, tracking down the child and abducting them. > > There have been a few instances of people meeting children online and > tricking them into doing something that brings them to harm, but I suspect > that this number is fewer than the number of people arrested by police posing > as children online looking for child predators. > > In short, my thoughts are that your sibling is foolish for worrying about > this and should be worrying instead about how their children are growing up > so overprotected that they never learn how to take care of themselves. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
