How to ask friends not to post pictures of your kids online
Parents worry about sounding overly paranoid or demanding when asking friends to take down photos, names, or location details. This social friction stops people from setting clear boundaries, leaving them struggling to protect their children's privacy against unwanted internet exposure.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Asking friends or family members to take pictures down
- 2Allowing photos only if faces are hidden and names/locations are omitted
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Do I ask them to remove name and/or location? Am I being overly paranoid?”source ↗
“I don’t mind photos that don’t show our kids face but I prefer not to tie them to name and location.”source ↗
“I would ask them to crop my kid out, and to not mention their name at all on social media”source ↗
“I don’t want my kid on the internet and I have asked people/ family to take any pics down.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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- 4How to stop being too overbearing in my child's relationships
- 3Should I tell other parents if their kids broke rules at our house?