If this isn’t a reminder to be careful on social media, nothing is. When you upload your baby bump pics to social media, you probably think only your friends and family are taking a gander.
That is often not the case.
In fact, the thing you need to be worried about MOST is something called “Preggophiles”.
Yes, preggophilia is a thing; people are getting off on pregnant bellies. GO FIGURE.
One mummy blogger (Meg Ireland) was horrified to learn that around 15 of her ‘baby bump’ pics had been set up on a porn site full of pregnant woman to be ogled at.
Now she is warning other mums about the dangers of cyber space. “I see so many people upload their bump pics and now I just gasp and hope to god they don’t get into the hands of someone they shouldn’t,” she wrote on Facebook.
“We shouldn’t have to worry about people stealing our photos, but unfortunately it happens all the time.” “It never occurred to me that people would be totally into a tired, hormonal sweat ball.
But they are, so please be aware when sharing pictures online of a growing baby belly,” Meg told Kidspot. She was altered to the site when a friend sent it through to her around 8 months ago.
“My bump was a pretty out there bump, many of my friends recognised it from a mile away,” she said. “I was initially taken aback but I didn’t think too much of it at first until I realised that more than one of my photos had been taken — about 15 all up.”
The person who stole Meg’s photos posed as a mum in an online mother’s group page, and also lured other people in the group to share their own bump photos.
“When I was scrolling through this god-awful site trying to find where this thread was, I saw some pretty f**ked up sh**,” she said. “I literally couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
Source: news.com.au
