I think it is OK to share your kids photos online as long as they are "appropriate" (no nudity or suggestive dress for gender specific) You never use their real names or give locations (such as address, school teams, etc.) and they are watermarked (although most people can get around the watermark...you can try to right click disable function)

That said; no matter what precautions you take on how much information to give, you are always putting your pictures, words and thoughts at risk. Just be mindful of how much you want others to know or find out.

NO. PERIOD.

I have a friend who is an undercover cop and work on child prostitution. After listening to her speak to our kid's classes, I usually don't even sign the school waver form for pics and vids.

If there is a pedo looking for kids, it is just WAY too easy for them to find you, especially with all the stupid location labeling on tweets and stuff.

There is someone I follow Twitter who is getting harassed and he threatened her kids. Perfect example of why to not post. 

I know that as a mom blogger, that's what many do, but I will NEVER post a pic. No. Matter. What.

This is an issue I've given quite a bit of thought to - how much of my personal life to share online and whether or not to include my children in my online life.

I do share photographs of my kids on my site. I worry about their privacy the same way I would if I were sharing excerpts of their diary with my readers.

I don't feel I'm putting them in any danger by sharing what I do. Statistically, we are living in one of the safest periods for children in the history of the world. Bad stuff happens and that makes headlines, but similar horrible bad things have been going on since the dawn of time, internet or no internet.

For now, I know where my kids are at all times and they are safe. Anywhere I take them they are subject to being recorded via video or photograph: stores, parks, dentists office, swimming pool ... I have zero control over any of that and people could be using those images in ways I don't approve of.  But chances are, they aren't and even if they were, the chances are almost non-existent that they'd act on it and try to find us.

I fully support parents who don't want their kids' real names or images online. I think it's something the parents should decide.  There is no right or wrong answer overall.

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Crayon Wrangler said ...
they are watermarked (although most people can get around the watermark...you can try to right click disable function)

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That's a lot of rules I'm breaking. 

I don't like watermarks personally and don't want to use them on my photos. (I completely understand why some use them, they just aren't for me.)  If it comes to a legal issue, my digital file has my name and website encoded into it that should copy over if someone tries to steal it or edit it as their own.

I've heard a lot of parents have the concern over their "life" being stolen in blog form. Everyone knows someone who had this happen.  Images and entries are copied/pasted.. it's rather bizarre. That it isn't a concern of mine at all.  Those people are mostly harmless, if not completely batty.

Disabling right click does not prevent people from stealing your images if that's their intent.  Most of the time, they just have to turn javascript off to disable your right click disabling.  Or if they aren't that smart, they just need to take a screenshot of your page and crop around the photo.

I agree with Lynda. I do post photos of my kids on my blog. I also share them on Facebook. I don't think I am endangering their safety. I also rarely use watermarks on my photos. It is just too much work to edit the photo and put a watermark on it. I don't have the time or energy to make sure my photos are perfect. So far I haven't had anything stolen from me off of my blog. Those things are rare when they do happen.

When I started blogging it was entirely for Grandparents to read. I didn't protect my kids identities. Now that blogging has become a more social thing I feel it is too late to backtrack over five years of entries and I just try to be cautious about not overly exposing my kids or their exact whereabouts. I know there are terrible things in the news but as previous comments have said they are statistically still very low and I know that we could be stalked by someone working in a local shop as likely as a stranger on-line. I hope I never regret my choices...

I don't know - I struggle with this issue. I do post pics of my kids, but always appropriate ones. If it's the least bit questionable, I don't do it.

I guess I feel that the real dangers come from those around you if you look at the statistics (family members, neighbors, etc.) And even with pedophiles, usually they go for children they have access to - those random abductions are rare (and again, convenient).

My fear is more that pictures kids post of themselves. They don't seem to have the same filter we do.

But the first time I hear of anything happening, all of the photos of our children will come down...

I have no qualms about posting pics of my kids.  They're rarely without me or their dad, so if anybody wants to try anything, they gotta come through THIS MAMA.