Facebook and Daycare...Do you mix the two?

[Rachael]

Those terms and conditions are more problematic when someone earns money from their images i.e. a photographer as the Terms try and take the copyright of the image and transfer it/share it with FB. But if you continue to read, it's subject to your security settings. This is why "sharing" creates such huge problems for those in the industry - they are expected to have examples of their work on-line but doing so publicly makes it so naive or unscrupulous people, use their images without permission or financially compensating the photographer. These terms protect FB from being sued if and when that happens - which is more often than you think.

By creating a private secret group, which is not visible to non-members, the content is not publicly visible for sharing. By not tagging parents in images, then it doesn't filter into their own accounts where their friends can see it, share it, etc.

The only way on FB to create a truly private group is as stated. Any other way would allow people to search and find the group, read the content but not add to it.

[AmandaKDT]

Those terms and conditions are more problematic when someone earns money from their images i.e. a photographer as the Terms try and take the copyright of the image and transfer it/share it with FB. But if you continue to read, it's subject to your security settings. This is why "sharing" creates such huge problems for those in the industry - they are expected to have examples of their work on-line but doing so publicly makes it so naive or unscrupulous people, use their images without permission or financially compensating the photographer. These terms protect FB from being sued if and when that happens - which is more often than you think.

By creating a private secret group, which is not visible to non-members, the content is not publicly visible for sharing. By not tagging parents in images, then it doesn't filter into their own accounts where their friends can see it, share it, etc.

The only way on FB to create a truly private group is as stated. Any other way would allow people to search and find the group, read the content but not add to it.

It for sure problematic for professional photographer, but I also see it from the prospective that if parents doing any sharing of pictures from your page (even just a dad linking it to the grandma or something) then you have the problem that those pictures can never actually be deleted. So if you have pictures of all the daycare kids and a family leaves it can make it impossible to get rid of those pictures off the Internet. There is a certain level of loss of control with social media (even with the use of security settings) as opposed to posting pictures on a personal website with password protection. You can even make it impossible to have pictures downloadable or able to be copied using a personal website.

I have a social media policy for my daycare where parents are not allowed to post pictures online (facebook, etc) or share the pictures with anyone if it has anyone other than their own child in the picture. Whenever I email pictures I always have this reminder accompany the photos.

I think the idea of using a private Facebook page for everything other than posting pictures of the kids is a good idea.