No names is best perhaps

How do you protect the anonymity of  your children online? Do you use fake names or nicknames? Or do you use your children’s real names online?

Consumer Reports recently found that among adult social network users, 38% had posted their full birth date, including year. And 45% of those with children had posted their children’s photos. And 8% had posted their own street address.

It also found 26% of adult Facebook users with children posted those children’s photos and names.

It’s hard to blog or use social networks without mentioning those whom we mother and love. But in our rush to show off our child’s latest achievements … those photos of your darling with a bowl upside down on his head … are we putting the ones we love most at risk?  Are we abusing the online privacy of our children in our rush to show off how cute they are?

Please tell us how you handle this by taking the MomsToWork survey here (no names required ) and we’ll post the results online for everyone to see.

Please take the MomsToWork quiz here before you go. You can read our other post on children’s privacy online here.

Cute expat kids by Shermee on Flickr. Available by Creative Commons License

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