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I can tell you I will share photos once LO is born. I am very specific on who can see what anyway and it is how my family keeps up with eachother since we are spread all across the country.

Only Instagram photos are shared on FB. Even then, those are restricted because of my issues with privacy and inlaws. I have a Shutterfly family site where pictures can be seen, but not screen grabbed or saved. Again, it's a MIL safety guard. She lifted a number of pictures when DH and I were dating. I felt very violated about my privacy and my images, so I've been restrictive ever since.

My facebook is 90% family, and most of them live in NY (I'm in SC), so it's the bet way to share with them. I don't see them but once every couple of years.

I have my settings to where only friends can see me, though. Even if someone shared my pics, not everyone could see it.

I keep sharing information about little ones identity to a minimum on social media...basically restricted to my profile picture and a select few other pictures. I try very hard not to share LO's name also. I will comment with things like "my son", "someone", "little guy" etc.

There is a large number of pictures posted after he was first born by a younger college friend (kid-less) who I kindly asked to remove them and she basically said I was crazy and kept them up! It was a big fat slap in the face.

We decided to keep picture and name sharing to only these select few because a co-worker had a random FB friend (didn't know them IRL) STEAL their child's identity and create a blog using pictures from the co-workers FB of her daughter and their daughters name as if it were this women's own! Super scary! I wish I wasn't so paranoid because I am proud of my LO and would like to show him off, but this has the crap scared out of me.

My FB is mainly people I know, but it's the people they know, whom I do not, that worry me the most.

I do share some photos but I restricted the people who can see the photos...it's only close friends and family now, not the random guy from college that I'm facebook friends with

@cascademom: We will be doing a private Shutterfly too!

Due to my husband's full time job as a cop, we will not be sharing on Facebook, Instagram, etc. A 'client' of the police dept (i.e., a thug) did something with the photos of a friend's infant son that was apparently so bad that DH won't even tell me what it was. So DH is ADAMANT that we don't share pics on social media, or on sites where they can be screen grabbed and saved.

Nope. All those pictures become property of Facebook when you post them, and I wasn't into that!

I share a bunch of photos of LO online. Of course not every single one we take, but enough.

@cascademom: That sounds terrible. What in the world was she using your photos for?

@cascademom: Great to know, thanks! I've been trying to figure out how to keep the pics pretty private, this sounds like a great option.

I post occasional pictures on facebook. Our friends are all over the country and all of DH's extended family and a lot of friends live overseas. There's other ways to share but fb for most of them is the easiest. I don't share pictures on baby sites or a blog or anything where I don't have some control over who sees them and I keep my online identity secret so even when I talk about her it can't be traced to her. I do occasionally post facebook updates about her but they're all innocuous things about learning to walk or playing with the dogs.

I share but I'm thinking of deleting my FB because I've had a lot of issues with people sharing my pictures even though I ask them not to.

Yes, but only to those in my close friends setting. I do it once a week or so since we have family all over and they love it! Convenience wins out since blog updating is too time consuming with my current schedule.