August 2013 Moms

Instagram

I love Instagram, but I just discovered its dark side. Did anyone know that this can be a place for pedophiles to hang out? They steal baby pics from others on Instagram and post them for "role play". It's disturbing and disgusting. Just an FYI if you're on there...watermark your pics and keep your account private.
 

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  • Ew! What do you mean watermark? Sorry.. I don't know that stuff.
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  • Yeah, how do you watermark?!
  • Ewww. I think I've posted like 2 pics of LO on there. I don't use it much. Pedophiles are the worst people. Absolutely disgusting.
  • Something is seriously wrong with the world we live in. That's disgusting.

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  • just gross!

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  • You can just use one of those photo edit apps to add your IG name onto your image. If you want to see who these people are to block/report them, search #babyrp
     

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  • That makes me want to throw up. I just looked through to make sure I didn't see my baby anywhere. I have a lump in my throat, people are fn disgusting.
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  • That is so horrible. How can people do that? Ugh sickening. Thanks for the warning.
  • I worry about that on this site too, esp since we all love sharing pix of our LOs. On HDBD if 50 of us share pix, there are like 1500 views! That's a lot of lurkers. Creepy!
  • I just came across this article. A mom I follow on IG has been posting on this topic all day. Very sick, but good to be aware and spread the word to other moms/dads out there:

    https://m.thestar.com/#!/life/stolen-instagram-baby-photos-used-for-sexual-role-play/30b3ac0f42eec6b00fc9bc926d843bd8

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  • I worry about that on this site too, esp since we all love sharing pix of our LOs. On HDBD if 50 of us share pix, there are like 1500 views! That's a lot of lurkers. Creepy!

    I was just thinking this.

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  • I just looked this up. It's fucking gross and disturbing that they would steal others baby photos. It definitely makes me want to be more careful about sharing photos!
  • Wow. This is disgusting. There are some sick fucks in this world. My Instagram is private but I am second guessing myself now on posting pics here.

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  • Just checked it out and the little baby who is in a lot of the pictures belongs to an Irish couple who do daily vlogs on YouTube!! I just emailed them to let them know! Jesus! Sick!
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    Leo John, Born August 12th 2013


  • Just checked it out and the little baby who is in a lot of the pictures belongs to an Irish couple who do daily vlogs on YouTube!! I just emailed them to let them know! Jesus! Sick!

    Creepy. I'm guilty of posting tons of pictures on Instagram, I've actually found quite a few fellow serious babywearing friends out there in the world. I guess there was a part of me in the beginning that thought, well, the freaks aren't harming us directly. But after checking out what you posted, I wanted to throw up. What if you post pictures of LO also with a parent?


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  • I had no clue. :(

    I had a pic of my DD1 show up in someone else's siggy on another board that I used very infrequently a few weeks ago. Someone actually took a pic I posted of my kid, and said it was theirs. That made me feel unsafe... but this even more so.


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  • All social media sites are locked. However, even locked someone could still access your instagram photos because of hashtags. Putting pics of your kid online ANYWHERE is a risk.
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  • It's a risk leaving your house everyday. It's also a huge risk crossing the street, as DH, LO and I almost got hit by 2 cars yesterday while in the cross walk with the green hand and everything.

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  • Just checked it out and the little baby who is in a lot of the pictures belongs to an Irish couple who do daily vlogs on YouTube!! I just emailed them to let them know! Jesus! Sick!

    Creepy. I'm guilty of posting tons of pictures on Instagram, I've actually found quite a few fellow serious babywearing friends out there in the world. I guess there was a part of me in the beginning that thought, well, the freaks aren't harming us directly. But after checking out what you posted, I wanted to throw up. What if you post pictures of LO also with a parent?

    I also use the babywearing hashtag when posting photos sometimes! My account is private but I guess anyone can see them once you use a hashtag! Usually dh and I are in the photo so maybe that doesn't "appeal" to them! Gross! I feel a bit violated and scared that there's a baby I recognise on there!
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    Leo John, Born August 12th 2013


  • Omg. Thanks for the FYI
  • Just checked it out and the little baby who is in a lot of the pictures belongs to an Irish couple who do daily vlogs on YouTube!! I just emailed them to let them know! Jesus! Sick!

    Creepy. I'm guilty of posting tons of pictures on Instagram, I've actually found quite a few fellow serious babywearing friends out there in the world. I guess there was a part of me in the beginning that thought, well, the freaks aren't harming us directly. But after checking out what you posted, I wanted to throw up. What if you post pictures of LO also with a parent?

    I think it's a great idea if you are posting pics of your LO, to post them of LO with someone. I guess that would make them less desirable since pedophiles aren't interested in grown ups. So gross, so sad. Thankfully I only have 3 pics of LO on my private account, with Month watermarks. I'll be using my screen name watermark also if I post more in the future.
     

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  • Just checked it out and the little baby who is in a lot of the pictures belongs to an Irish couple who do daily vlogs on YouTube!! I just emailed them to let them know! Jesus! Sick!

    Creepy. I'm guilty of posting tons of pictures on Instagram, I've actually found quite a few fellow serious babywearing friends out there in the world. I guess there was a part of me in the beginning that thought, well, the freaks aren't harming us directly. But after checking out what you posted, I wanted to throw up. What if you post pictures of LO also with a parent?

    I also use the babywearing hashtag when posting photos sometimes! My account is private but I guess anyone can see them once you use a hashtag! Usually dh and I are in the photo so maybe that doesn't "appeal" to them! Gross! I feel a bit violated and scared that there's a baby I recognise on there!
    I actually don't think that is true.
    My account is private and I was using hashtags at a wedding and I had to add people for them to see the pics

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  • All social media sites are locked. However, even locked someone could still access your instagram photos because of hashtags. Putting pics of your kid online ANYWHERE is a risk.

    This is why I don't have a Facebook or allow my children's pictures to be on Facebook, I ask nicely to not post pictures of lo when someone takes a picture as in aunts and such
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    Ffrey1119 said:

    All social media sites are locked. However, even locked someone could still access your instagram photos because of hashtags. Putting pics of your kid online ANYWHERE is a risk.

    This is why I don't have a Facebook or allow my children's pictures to be on Facebook, I ask nicely to not post pictures of lo when someone takes a picture as in aunts and such
    Yea, if you truly don't want to take the risk THIS is really the only way to ensure your kids pictures don't get into the *wrong hands*, whatsoever.
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  • I want to throat punch these assholes. I couldn't even read the whole thing. Jesus.
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  • So MH just lost his shit reading every single article about this and has been on Instagram for 2 hours reporting as many people into this baby role playing thing that he can find. He also is just calling people out on a lot of these pictures. (Don't worry, we made our accounts private). The only problem is that it's not illegal. It's just fucking whack and completely unsettling.

    Edit: it cut me off.

    I love you. I love your husband. I love Alabama. You guys should run away to Boston and live next door.
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  • I love Boston and I love you!!!!!!!!!!

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  • I just spent the last hour reporting them for abuse!!its seriously sick! Fricking sick weirdos!
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    Leo John, Born August 12th 2013


  • The IG mom that was posting about this has just made an account where she is compiling lists of these perverts to make it easy to block and report

    @babyrp_revealed
     

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  • Dude, there are so many if these people it's insane. Unfortunately it's new, and most of them are teenagers. It's fucking gross. Hopefully more people make accounts like this mom to really help get them all.

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  • mgg242 said:

    I posted it on Facebook. No one had ever heard of any of this.

    I did the same. My friends all thought it was a joke. Uuuuggggghh


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  • I don't post pics of LO anywhere on the internet. This world is so messed up. I didn't read the articles (can't handle it today - see the thread re. 'training up')
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