Comments on: Raising the Bar on Publicly Shared Photos

By: AmyG

AmyG — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:57:35 +0000

I just finished watching the show. This is a subject that I’ve been thinking about lately, because there have been several blogs that I read on a daily basis that have posted shots of their children that show some form of nudity. Whether it’s a little girl in only a skirt, or a child that you can only see their back & bottom, it made me cringe. I posted a few pictures of my girls in their swim suits & now I’ll be going back to remove them. We don’t know who is looking at our blogs. I shut a blog down, once, when someone left a simple comment about how beautiful my then 6 yr old daughter was. When I looked a the link to this persons blog, it frightened me. For a long while, I didn’t post pictures again. I’m still guarded, but like I said, even simple pictures of kids in swim suits can be taken the wrong way. I’ve been watermarking my photos for a long time. Making sure that the watermark is not just in the corner of the photo where it can be cropped out, but across my child where it will be hard to hide. It might take away from the photo, but I’ll know it’s mine, if someone takes it.

It’s sad that people have to ruin something so simple as sharing a simple picture with family and friends.

By: Casual Friday Every Day

Casual Friday Every Day — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:41:03 +0000

That sounds scary, actually! I wonder if water marking photo’s would keep that from happening?

Nell

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:28:04 +0000

The show definitely looks interesting. This is an important conversation to be having. I’d love to hear Janice or Susan weigh in on the topic since they regularly post photos on their blog (as do I).

I linked over to the TNT website in hopes of watching an episode or two, but it appears that Windows is needed to play the clip. I’m a Mac user…

By: RefreshMom

RefreshMom — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:32:19 +0000

I’m looking forward to watching the show (it airs in 1/2 hour here). I was part of a birth board a few years ago where several of the moms had a discussion group for cloth diapering. They posted pics of their latest finds, etc. Someone found that several photos from the board had been lifted and were posted on a diaper fetish site. It is true that the photos don’t even have to have anything to do with clothes-less kids or any of the other things that trigger porn crawlers. I have only recently relaxed my standard of not posting photos of my kids on my blog or public boards at all (I still mostly use shots from the side or back so they aren’t easily identifiable). And I waffle on whether I should relax or not. Yes, it’s unfortunate that we even have to give it consideration, but the truth is that not wanting to let the sickos ‘win’ doesn’t mean they aren’t out there doing dispicable things with innocent photos.

By: HomeGrownMommy

HomeGrownMommy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:00:18 +0000

Unfortunately, it doesn’t even have to be tub shots of your kids. I had published a video of my kids at the park. My daughter was riding one of those horses on the really heavy duty spring, where the kids can rock it back and forth. One total sicko had the nerve, not to just think but to actually post a comment, something to the effect that he wished he could have been that horse. We were horrified! It’s hard to know what not to published – when someone is that whacky, it doesn’t seem to matter how you try to protect your kids.

By: Jessica M

Jessica M — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:29:57 +0000

I’ll have to try to watch it online later this week since we don’t have cable.

When my son (now 2.5) was first born I uploaded some movies on youtube of him including some of him in the bath and his first diaper change -you couldn’t see *anything* in either of the pictures and I put them up for far away grandparents to see.

About a year later I was looking at the stats on my youtube movies and noticed that some of my movies had over 100,000 views. When I looked at it a bit closer every single movie that had been viewed in great volume was diaper or bath related – I can only presume it was sickos trying to find naked babies. It made me feel sick and I deleted all of the movies right away.

I was smart enough to never put any naked baby private parts online, but it was still disturbing to know people had looked at my youtube videos trying to find some.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:16:33 +0000

Tivo indeed then!
Cheers

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:55:11 +0000

I have tried to watch this show but I have a really hard time watching it being that I am a public defender and the show is just too close to what I deal with on a daily basis.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:38:28 +0000

Sounds good. I’ll set my TiVo, since I can’t stay up that late these days.

By: Sarah (GenMom)

Sarah (GenMom) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:31:27 +0000

Definitely worth tuning in. I’ll try to stay awake to tweet about it too! We’ll see.

Yes, this is Jo-Lynne’s friend! She really enjoyed that trip to Disney. We need a trip to Euro-Disney now!! LOL!