I put videos of my small children on youtube. Mainly because my parents live in another country. One video of mine titled “Baby in the bath” has been viewed about 3000 times. All of my other videos have been watched about 30 times.
My Dad says to remove my “Baby in the bath” video because preverts are watching. My baby was only about 6 months old at the time. I think it is not preverts. And even if it is, I am not worried about it.
I would not put any nakedness on youtube of my kids after age 18 months.
Any thoughts from people? What is the cutoff age for nakedness on youtube ?
Do any of your other videos have the word ‘baby’ in the title?
This is just me, but I’d never put imagery of my relatives on the internet without their permission. You are effectively broadcasting their likeness to the whole world. A bit different from showing an old photo album to your daughter’s boyfriend.
I’m not saying it is fundementally a bad thing to do. Just that I personally would feel guilty about doing so.
Case in point. My brother put a picture of my overweight self (when I was overweight. Not any more) onto his facebook account. I really really wish he hadn’t.
No.
Can my baby give permission?
Sort of my point. She can’t give permission. So if she were my baby I wouldn’t do it for exactly that reason.
When she’s older and can give permission, she’ll probably say no.
It depends how big the file is, but I’d imagine a safer way is name it totally randomly, upload it to a hosting website and give your parents the link to it. Or a file transfer on MSN. Or an email attachment.
Get the parent’s permission.
One thing about babies, in six months no stranger would be able recognize your child from the video.
FYI, if he tagged the photo with your name, you can go and remove the tag, so that at least it won’t show up in “Pictures of You” on your own FB account. He won’t be able to retag it without your permission, either.
I’m pretty sure you can change your privacy settings on youtube to control who is able to view your videos.
I think it is wrong to put any nude pictures of a baby on the internet. There are just too many freaks out there. My daughter recently posted a nude picture of her month-old daughter on Facebook. My wife and I both disapproved, but she (the baby) is not our child and all we could do was express our opinions.
What gives perverts the right to determine what videos to post?
I’d think they’d be the worst possible source for determining what is proper and what’s not.
And, no, I’m not joking.
I’m pretty sure you can put a password on YouTube videos, one you can just give to your parents.
I don’t think it’s “perverts.” Some people just like babies.
Wow, what an OVERREACTION.
You’re going to have those kids for 18 years or more. I think setting up a secure way to share photos/ videos with your family and friends makes sense. Making a life’s worth of family photos available to the entire world doesn’t seem prudent. If you have one or two that you really want to release to the greater YouTube audience, fine, but anonymize them so they aren’t connected to all the other images of your family.
Does it actually make any difference if someone is viewing it sexually? I mean, there’s probably people who view clothed pictures of kids and get off on it. Doesn’t mean it needs to be taken down. Assuming there’s realistically no way to actually track down said kid, I don’t see the harm.
I would take it down, not because of perverts, but because I know I’m glad my parents never took embarrassing photos of me that might be unearthed in the future. Putting it on the internet means that it may still be out there for anyone to find when they’re old enough to care.
I specialize in taking embarrassing photos of my child. I’m putting together a “baby in a box” collage since as soon as she could move, she’d crawl inside anything. (dog crates, cat carriers, handbaskets, laundry baskets) How else do you think I’ll be able to keep her away from boys until she is 50?
I think my biggest concern would be that you might get nailed for child porn. You can limit who sees your videos, if you want to be on the really safe side.
I googled “Baby in the bath” youtube and came up with a stupid animation of a baby in a bathtub singing a song, and it had 256,000 views. Maybe people searching for that came up with your video, and that’s why it had so many views.
Did your dad say ‘preverts’ or ‘perverts’?
If he said ‘preverts’, totally disregard the advice.
If he said ‘perverts’, ditto.