It never ceases to amaze me how naive some posters on GN are. When I was teaching and responsible for internet safety in my school, we spent an inordinate amount of time, drumming into pupils that posting their photos and personal information online was dangerous, then their parents would post photos of them in school uniform in Facebook, making them instantly identifiable. The pupils had more sense than their parents.
As Riverwalk has stated, I continue to be astounded when people post full on photos of their grandchildren, knowing full well they could be lifted and used in child porn, or traced by reverse imaging searches, which will show who they are if the photo has been posted on Facebook, Instagram, school website etc.
My son would be outraged if I uploaded a full photo of my grandchild anywhere without his permission. I wonder how many grandparents actually ask permission.
I was responsible for maintaining our school website and the strict instruction from the LEA was no full photos of children, only side or back views should be uploaded and definitely no full names. It's common sense.
The reason I was concerned was that a poster on this thread gave her name and the village she stayed in. You will notice that very few posters offer a precise location.
In the last couple of years, I was aware of two posters on GN, who were outed and had to deal with the upset it caused.
No-one is aiming to be unwelcoming, quite the opposite. Those of us with concerns, were trying to alert the poster that giving so much personal information on a public forum, where anyone can read it, is very unwise.
