Kids and the net.

We don't have kids yet and thanks to blogs like Little Baby Garvin and Hannamac  and others I've come across in the past, I have the urge to attempt to document that phase of our life in a similiar fashion. I really enjoyed looking at them and I suspect that one day those children will also enjoy being able to read them. Especially as they get to the point of starting families of their own. That's one of the reasons I think journaling is so great. I think years later there are so many benefits to being able to look back at yourself and even let your children read it. But I struggle with one part of making it so public. I saw on Facebook today (and many other days) a photo of an adorable little girl. There are a lot of adorable children on facebook. Some I know personally and others are children of old high school friends. Then there are the photos that friends hit like on and I can see them. Getting to my point, I know that EVERYTHING posted online is basically there forever. And I also know that the average person doesn't copyright their personal photos and I don't know how the laws work but once I pretty much think that once a person puts a picture on FB it's pretty much fair game. It's super easy to save an image from someone's fb page and then use it as your own. So how much of our children's image should we post online? There are fb friends who have children I've never met but I guarantee I'd recognize them in a heartbeat if I saw them at an airport, or playing at the park. So how much is to much? At what point do you stop putting photos of your kids online? Or is it ok to put the photos up so long as you cover enough of them so that complete strangers (to your kids) won't recognize them on the street. I mean kids are taught not to go with strangers but how many kids would think of a person who knows what their mom made for dinner last night, where they were born, full names and dates of birth, where you went on vacation, what you did for your last birthday party (I could go on and on) as strangers? I mean even an older child - say 8 or 10 - might not be quite as suspicious of a strange person who knows so much about them! Oh well, maybe I'm over thinking it. Time will tell!