Pictures of Children on the Internet

There are millions of pictures of kids and children.
But, posting it here on gather does not counts towards the theory you have presented.
I myself am a concerned person while posting photos, but here I have no fear, I can post anything which is according to the gather policies.
I have never posted a picture of myself so liberally on any other network but gather.com. So, I think you don't have to worry about on this issue.
There are many young participants who share there pictures, and many mothers proudly post their kids photos.
This is a safe place, you can even ask other parents howproud they are.
There is a security tool which is provided to protect content from general view, you can control who should look at them and who should not.
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Personally, since my kids are involved in cheer, dance, gymnastics, etc. they have their pics posted for these teams...I don't think it is any more dangerous that anything else they do.

As long as there is no contact info, or full names...etc...It should be safe to post...

Although I truly enjoy everyone else's child pictures on gather, I just don't post any of my familiy pix - I think in part because every so often some person with some kind of "hit" mentality jumps my bones with random drive-by stuff. It's not the numbers - I don't let point stuff bug me - but the uncomfortable attack feeling. I prefer to deal with that energy myself, and keep family out of the way; and I keep them all surrounded by beautiful spiritual light as well.

I get a little concerned when people post kids pics giving their full names. That is most scarey.

My child is not here YET. He kicks and lets me know that he will be soon. I have thought long and hard about this. I never ever put my picture online, I won't put my childs. There are so many people out there that want to do bad to people, not just kids. It's to risky. I know if people want to try hard enough, they can find anyone. I'm just not going to help them by giving a photo of myself, my child or anyone else.

Both of my kids are now adults. I do have a few pictures of my granddaughter posted, but since no one really knows where she lives, I don't have a problem with it.

thats the reason I dont allow any pictures of actual people to be posted on my group I don't care how cute they are or the picture is please post this article in
I want points and so do
you its my group and I want people to see this article thank you so much

I agree with a lot of the answers here, that the important thing is not to have the full name or any kind of contact information, and here at Gather this is not necessary, so it should be save. This is actually something I have thought a lot about, but I do think that, parents can post photos of their children, as long as they do not give out their own, or their children's full names and contact info.

Thanks for sharing! I'm posting to everyone that posts to my most recent article about wanting gather points: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977080848

Great point. I don't post pictures of my daughter, or even my husband anywhere online.

I enjoy viewing other's family photos and have given thought to what and who my kids interact with on the internet. They both have MySpace pages and there are times I ask them to edit or remove photos. They don't like it, but oh well. I also am VERY glad that I decided to finally let my eye doctor talk me into glasses; I'm near sighted and find that I can be that POS from my position on the couch now!

It's a brave and scary new world out there. Use of common sense, careful and prudent parenting, and some sleuth skills will keep your children safe. And that commercial about knowing where your kids are...very important. I was completely surprised at how many of my daughter's friends have parents who give them total freedom now that they're going into high school. No curfew, no check-ins, no idea of where they're going or whose house they are at! My goodness, no wonder internet predators are able to pursue and pounce on their prey! Oh, and most importantly, TALKING TO THEM. They may seem like you're taking up their precious time, being overprotective, etc., but some of it does actually sink in!

I think that Genine gave some of the best advice... it's like I wrote it! LOL Seriously, it's great info. Good article and wonderful advice from all!

I agree,its scary.And I couldn't stand it if that were to happen.
They are everywhere and seems like the internet is a bigger tool for them to find victims.

A photo is relatively harmless when it stands alone. It is when we begin to post names and details about the pictures that we get into trouble.

I feel fine about it because my baby is still small. When she's getting older, I might stop posting her pictures.

I worry that someone could gather up all the different "bits" about me on gather & then have too much information! So I am careful about saying too much, or posting pictures of my daughter, license plates on the cars, etc.

I'm very careful about posting full names and exact locations anywhere on the Internet. It does worry me that people may be able to piece too much together from various things I've written.

I think that Gather is a very safe place for people to share
pictures there is a safety code here.