Seniors are increasingly using screens, especially social networks. What grandparent who has a Facebook account has not one day given in to the temptation to post photos of their grandchildren on this social network? Nothing could be more legitimate when you know that Facebook allows you to broadcast in real time to your family and friends unforgettable moments, and that you want to share, which mark the life of a child, his first tooth, his first steps. , his first return to school, etc. But beware ! Posting photos of your grandchildren on Facebook is not without risk. Overview of the dangers to which you, but especially your grandchildren, can be exposed.
Everyone wants to share with their family or friends their moments of happiness, especially those experienced when you are lucky enough to have grandchildren. The use of social networks, including Facebook in particular, which has grown considerably in recent years, offers the opportunity to share these unforgettable moments with a large number of people at the same time.
We can see it around us, many grandparents present on Facebook are happy to show the photos of their grandchildren to their "friends" of this social network and they do it without thinking of harm and especially in not necessarily being aware of the risks.
One of the greatest dangers of posting photos of your grandchildren on Facebook, especially if your account is poorly configured and poorly protected, is that badly caring individuals, in this case pedophiles who are very fond of this social network , can access and recover these images for child pornography purposes.
Some of these predators even manage to recover photos of children on Facebook, but also other social networks such as Instagram for example, and to create with false profiles, of course always for child pornography or pedophilia purposes, illustrated by the stolen images, which can also end up on pedophile websites.
Obviously, absolutely avoid, for these reasons in particular but not only, to publish photos of your grandchildren naked, or even in bathing suits for example, on the web via Facebook!
In any case, the best thing to do is to make sure not to show your grandchildren's faces in the photos you post of them to your friends on this social network.
Facebook users are not always aware of this, but you should know that from the moment you create an account on this social network, all the information and photos you post become the properties of this social network.
Widely used, Facebook relies mainly on its advertising revenue to live. And, to this end, the social network has all the freedom to use, for example, the photos of your grandchildren that you have posted to use them for advertising purposes, without you having a say, and even less being compensated financially in return.
Still in terms of publicity, even if this danger is much less serious but nevertheless embarrassing, by publishing photos of your grandchildren which also show their clothes, their favorite games, your place of residence, etc., you allow Facebook's algorithm to target and multiply the ads it displays on your personal account.
If, when they are small, your grandchildren are generally indifferent (or then delighted) to see that you publish their photos on Facebook, older, they have the possibility of turning against you if they consider that their image has been ridiculed and that these photos harm their "e-reputation", as we say now, for example. This right to the image of children on Facebook also arises when separated parents are in conflict and one posts their offspring.
Indeed, French law provides in article 226-1 of the Penal Code that "is punished by one year's imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros the fact, by means of any process whatsoever, of voluntarily violate the privacy of others by capturing, fixing, recording or transmitting, without their consent, the image of a person in a private place".
If these situations where the grandchildren turn against their grandparents, or any other person, are still relatively rare, we cannot predict what will be the case in a few years. This image right enshrined in law which, of course, also concerns your grandchildren, may one day have consequences for the grandparents who, even without the intention of harming at that time obviously, display photos of their grandchildren on Facebook, photos that the grandchildren may later feel are harmful to them because their privacy has been shared and shown to everyone without their permission.
