do you have reservations about posting pics of your kids and
family? i know we all have to be careful in this day and age, but
how careful? whenever i post a personal pic, i second guess if i
should. just wondering how you all feel about it
Hi jason
It is an interesting question or rather "issue".
There are some wackos about ..
But its also now just past a joke nowerdays how paranoid people (we
all) are. It is starting to stop us enjoying "normal" lives.
I am not going to be allowed to take pictures at school when / if
my son is in a play unless I have written permission from all the
parents of all the children in the play ... what is that all about
!! - its partly organisations covering their backs because they
dont want any possible responsibility at all that there may just
may be some bad people about in the world. Well there are some,
[not many] bad people, and many of these few infiltrate exactly
into schools and the such like so that they can get close to our
kids.
My son was playing happily in a paddling pool tonight with some
other kids.
I was going to get his swimming costume but was too late, in a
moment they were all naked and splashing about in the water.
So I went to take photos of a family of swans instead even though
the kids and all that water were very very photogenic ...
I would not have dared to risk any suspicion from asking a print
shop to print pictures of naked children even so obviously innocent
and even though I have had this discussion with the manager of my
local print lab in some detail and am sure they would simply have
printed them for me.
So my photos from this evening (rather a lot of them actually) were of
completely naked swans
eh??
Don't think myself my son is any less of an animal than they are ..
well it sure is a funny old world we humans live in these days..
On a serious note:
I do think it is more likely your kids may be harmed by one of
their teachers, family members, priests, scout leaders etc or
others who are usually close to kids .. than just anyone who sees a
picture in the internet.
That is where I imagine all the bad people with an unhealthy
interest in children would go - in order to be close to what they
obsess about - .
FWIW, This is me ...
childhood for me was perhaps a risky time - I cant remember
Youth was more so - motorcycles, alchohol, accidents, fights etc
Adulthood so far has been less eventful, apart from:
over-stress .. over work ...
Oh and there some scary snakes and people on my travels -
(in truth many were as scared of me)
And now its mostly the fags that are out to get me ....
damn that newsagent !!
And this is my son:
He bled real blood just this evening, from his toe .. just another
animal really .. sometimes very much so.
PS: its more dangerous if you have children in one of the areas
where you could be just called "collateral damage" or controlled by
armed soldiers at checkpoints, whose own children are of course
"safe at home" as are those of the commanders explaining about the
pity of civilian casualties. [1]
--
Mark
[1] btw thats not politics .. its "humanist"
honest
