FB Can Find Your Children

If you have them, and you are posting pics from a device which allows locations with pictures. Is this urban myth or legend or true?

Its true, but its not Facebook's "fault." Every smartphone with a GPS can tag your location in the metadata associated with a photo. If you poke around in the settings function on the phone, you can turn this off.

I have read that Facebook strips this info from the picture as part of the upload process.

That would be quite a feat.

Well it wasn't a FB concern so much as it was a stalker concern-I guess child stalkers are finding ways to pinpoint where children are because of this feature.

Right, that's the scare, but as it turns out, the pictures on facebook can't be used in this fashion. Also worth noting, child stalkers usually know the child/live in the neighborhood/etc. A kid's picture on Facebook isn't suddenly going to make them vulnerable if they weren't already vulnerable.

Sure. But by default the post contains your location too.

Haven't I proven to you yet that if you have posted stuff on the internet about yourself, it's relatively easy to search it out and put it together?

Your kids safety is proportionate to how much you or they have shared online about themselves and which apps and programs they have chosen to use.

This is nonsense. Their safety is proportionate to how much somebody in the real world thinks s/he has real world reasons to stalk them. Social networking doesn't change that.

Social networking per se, maybe not. But do you register on message boards using your RL name? All you need is one unethical admin who thinks passing private info to a select cadre by PM is teh funnah, and if even one of those posters is a sociopath, you've got your very own stalker. Said stalker may not be crazy enough to travel to your hometown and stalk the kids whose photos you've posted in the Green Room, but stranger things have happened.