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I don't do facebook, but if you wanted to share pictures of your children with family and friends would you not normally just email them? I'm to wary even to sign up, far less post pictures of my nearest and dearest on it.

Well I suppose I, like most people, am guilty of assuming that the security settings etc are secure and there's nothing to worry about. I suppose it's a form of complacency. Then again, email is far from secure. And you could hand copies of your photographs to people, but who knows what they do with them after that? You could simply refuse to show your family and friends your children unless they meet them in person, but who's to say what they think when they see them? Obviously the only answer is to live in total isolation.

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Started my first school placement of my PGCE course, a week after I was supposed to because the university took so long to find me a place. Turns out that the school I have been placed with is actually two separate schools for the infants and the juniors with separate administrations. Because of this the infant school, where I'm supposed to spend 2/3 of my time, had no idea who the f*ck I was or what I was doing there when I introduced myself earlier today.

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Yes, they did. But that doesn't really answer the points I made, semi-seriously/semi-jesting, about the sharing of images, does it?

It's unlikely if you share photos with family and friends directly that they'll ever be seen by anyone else, certainly not copied. I understand that you misunderstood the security settings but that still wouldn't stop the people who you wanted to see the photos passing it on to their friends in seconds, and ad infinitum. You have to assume any picture shared on the internet is public.

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My auntie tagged herself in a photo of me and my oldest at the football. Because of that I had to explain that anyone would be able to see it because of her shite security settings (she should not be allowed online). I had random folk who she's friends with 'liking' the picture and one of them telling them the wee one looked like her! I was fucking raging.

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Yes, they did. But that doesn't really answer the points I made, semi-seriously/semi-jesting, about the sharing of images, does it?

Maybe this will.

Ask yourself, in the pre-digital age, would you have given the entire world access to every picture you took?

If you matter to people, and they matter to you, you will keep in touch. You know, talk, call, email, text*- that kind of thing. None totally "secure", but that's life. Social marketing? Totally unnecessary, imho. And no, that's not a typo.

Facebook, while potentially useful, has long since become a forum for self promotion, ego stroking, and wrong'uns of various varieties.

* Even write occasionally, with property printed photos sometimes. Really make someone's day now and again.

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It's unlikely if you share photos with family and friends directly that they'll ever be seen by anyone else, certainly not copied. I understand that you misunderstood the security settings but that still wouldn't stop the people who you wanted to see the photos passing it on to their friends in seconds, and ad infinitum. You have to assume any picture shared on the internet is public.

I understand how the security settings work, I just hadn't realised that friends of friends could see my updates as I believed I had selected the option that prevented that. It certainly used to work that way.

My point, though joking, was still semi-serious. Though you can give the pictures physically to your loved ones, you still can't control what they do with them, or what they think about.

My auntie tagged herself in a photo of me and my oldest at the football. Because of that I had to explain that anyone would be able to see it because of her shite security settings (she should not be allowed online). I had random folk who she's friends with 'liking' the picture and one of them telling them the wee one looked like her! I was fucking raging.

My mum and my step-mum have both been guilty of this in the past.

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