How to Send out Pictures on your Kids on the Internet Safely

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You want your loved ones to see your children, and the Internet provides a great way to do this. Of course you do not want to share photos of your children with everyone on the World Wide Web. There are many different options for safe photo sharing on the Internet.
Email out pictures
One of the safest and easiest ways to share photographs of your children with family and friends is to simply send out the photographs via email. This is extremely easy to do with most smartphones. You can also set up a list so that you send a photograph to one email address and it gets sent out to as many email addresses as you want. You will not need to worry about someone else seeing it since it will only go to exactly the people you designate. Many people check their email on a regular basis and would love to see a picture or two in their inbox every day.
Your own website
Another way that you can safely share photographs of your children in through your own website. If you have the technical know-how, you can make your own site or you can get a software program or hire someone to do it for you. This is relatively inexpensive and you can put up photographs in different directories. For the most security, password protect the part where you keep the children’s photographs. Thus, the only people who will be able to get in will be the people to whom you give the password. You can give people different passwords so that you can disable any if you think it became compromised.
Social networking websites
Of course, a lot of people use social networking websites to show pictures of their children, but you must be very careful with this. First you need to make sure that you have privacy settings set so that random strangers cannot view your pictures. If you cannot do that on a site, then choose another site.
You should also be careful who you connect with on these websites if you will be sharing pictures of the kids. For instance, if you “friend” every former classmate from grade school, every acquaintance from work and everybody you remember ever meeting, then you might not want to share your children’s photographs on that account. Think about how well you know the person and remember that many people have roommates or other people who can get into the accounts.
When doing your children’s photographs, you should only have people you know well enough to be comfortable sharing your pictures with them.
You want to protect your children and should therefore control who views their photographs. Use the above techniques to safely share their photos.