What the f*ck, man.

You know, I've actually thought about this before - all those baby commercials with the naked baby could be jerkin' fodder for pedophiles, can't they?

I've always thought babies shouldn't be shown like that on TV... I mean, at least let them be 18 so they can choose.

I'd never really thought that about baby commercials before, but now I'd be forced to agree.

Damn, dude, it's just so wrong. No one was hurt but I still feel violated somehow. I just thank God you couldn't actually see anything in those pictures.

I don't blame you dhelor for not wanting to post those pictures. What pisses me off is that it's necessary to even worry about something that should be totally innocent fun.

If it's that big a deal, and there's only six views on most of your pictures I'd just make them private or email them to a list of friends and family. I'm sure there are hordes of people out there who do nothing but troll through Flikr and other image sites looking for fodder for their nefarious purposes.

Or, you know, people looking for information on which diapers to buy.

*runs to a well known hosting site to check privacy settings*

The world just gets worse.

There's a 7 year old girl on our street whose mother just leaves her to her own devices, so she spends the day wandering around talking to anyone who'll listen. There is no father in the picture, and the one time I went to the house, her teenaged brother answered the door with a joint in his hand.

She is clearly starved of any kind of attention or affection, but I have had to stop speaking to her at all as I am so worried about the perception.

It disgusts and saddens me that such a tiny minority of people in this world have made it so that you can't speak to a kid, or put pictures of your own kids anywhere public without fear.

That's f*cked up, little bastard should be thrown to the ants.

As for the diaper searches, unfortunately, there are lots of f*cked people out there. There space is reserved.

If Real Sex has taught me anything it's that, if it exists, some sick f*ck is getting off to it.

You're right, man. And in hindsight it seems like an obvious call. But I now that I have a baby, I see them as the personification of everything innocent and good. I guess I just have a blindspot where stuff like this is concerned.

I have a 1and1.com account ($4.99 per month), and use JAlbum to create mostly private picture galleries. I then email the links to the galleries to family members for them to view. The greatest benefit is that I am doing this and getting an off-site backup for all my family pictures (in addition to everything I do here at the house for backup). I do not trust any of the picture sites for posting family pictures to. I just don't want others looking.

I wish I could say I'm surprised. I've had the unfortunate opportunity of working numerous online child exploitation investigations. Seemingly innocent images of children frequently find their way into the hands of the wrong sorts of people, and within the wrong types of online communities.

Once an image finds life online, you can never get it back. I don't post pictures of my family, or especially my child, on public websites, ever.

Oh Locdog...don't ever change.

Also...

DIAPER NINJA!

If the kid is wearing a diaper on his cranium, does that make him a sh*t head?

Isn't a more likely explanation that a) one of the 5 or 6 people that viewed your other pictures looked at the "diaper" picture of your girl, thought it was cute, and sent it to their friends or family? or b) an ex-girlfriend of yours or old friend was trolling your public photo album and chose that picture, of all the ones available, to send to her friends (as in, "look what's up with locdog! He has babies now!", etc.), or even c) people you don't know had been searching for pictures of diapers, or children in diapers, to use for innocent purposes (like a LOLBaby or photoshop joke) rather than for nefarious purposes?

Not that I don't appreciate and support 100% your protectiveness over your little girl. It just seems a bit of a leap to automatically assume that you have 50 hits rather than 5 on that one picture because a bunch of pervs are seeking out your baby.

I'd just assume it was diaper fetishists looking for pictures of other diaper-wearing adult fetishists. Creepy, but harmless.

In any case, the chance of your children being harmed/stalked/etc. by a stranger are approximately one in a bazillion. Given what my wife saw working for social services, I'd worry much more about any family/friends/neighbors/babysitters/etc. that had unmonitored access to her.

I am not sure that what you are saying, is the case here. Diaper is a very generic word. Then again, of course it would
or could be a keyword that pervs use to find whatever makes them happy.
Lobster, just the thought a perv could think of your kid that way... really, no parent wants that.
And pervs will look up kids if they can. I imagine it is not that difficult to figure out where ppl live.
So the less there is out there for them, the better.
Maybe Flickr should log the ip of the viewers, just in case.

Awww, wittle baby sub-zero.