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Just take the pictures yourself with or without the kids.  Hold the camera at arm's length and shoot.  You can take lots of photos and edit out the ones you don't like.  I'm partial to pics of me laying down...helps diminish wrinkles.  

I'm with you, but since getting on FB, I've made a point to make sure someone takes a pic of me with the kids every once in while!!

yeah but you do need to make an effort and insist on having your pic taken. I have recently had a scandal with my hub because of that. Noone is going to take those nice spontaneous shots of you and the child unless you ask for that

I had my five year old daughter take mine. How sad that she has figured out my digital camera already?

Dainty i hear ya! I'm the picture taker in the fam, so i have a ton of pics of my kids with their dad but none of me alone or with the kids! It's like HELLO HONEY! It would be nice if you could help me out here a bit. im trying to share in the memories too. It really annoys me that i have to ask, so there are no candid pics of me at all.

All of the pictures taken of me look like crap....so my dog and kids are way cuter.  And who cares what some idiot at MSNBC says anyhow....When I lose another how ever many pounds, I'll post my pictures until then, the dog wins.

I use a picture that is almost 5 years old from the last time we intentionally posed for holiday photos. My hair is styled and I'm wearing make-up. A new friend recently told me she didn't recognize my picture.

Right now my profile picture is of me, because it is a picture I made my fiance take. It was a before picture, since I had my head shaved... long story.

Any who, I almost always have pictures of my daughter up as my profile pic. She is cute, she does funny things, and my fiance sucks at taking pictures.

I once asked him to take pictures of my daughter on the pony rides at the fair. It was right before her birthday, and we were going to have a cowboy theme, I wanted to use the pictures on the invitations. So i held her on the horse (she wasnt quite 1 yet) and walked around in circles while he clicked away. I went through the pictures after the ride was over.... not one decent picture in the whole bunch (and by bunch I mean 5 or 6) either he zoomed in too far so you couldnt see she was even on a horse, or it was blurry, or the poles that the ponies are rigged up to were in the way. I was so mad at him for not getting one good picture. Though I know now that if I want the picture good, I should just do it myself.

I am fortunate that my mom lives right down the street and happens to be a genius with a camera, so I do get some good ones once in a while. And we trade off too, that way she isn't left out either.

As long as your kids are not like 20, I dont see the big deal. oh and please dont take pictures of yourself... its just so, middle school. If you need a picture for facebook that badly, ask a friend, or family member, or neighbor, or that person walking by your house, to get a good shot of you.

My facebook friends are my actual friends and family. I think of it as a good way to share pictures of my kids with everyone at once.

Screw that!  All the pictures of me are of my boobs, since the most interesting thing I do is breastfeed!  

Good reasons NOT to post pictures of yourself:

You kids are way cuter.

Your dog is way cuter.

You are not trying to get a date, so who the hell cares what you look like.

Your ex-boyfriends/ex-high-school friends cant find you.

Yep...my profile shot is of my four year old and the puppy.  So much cuter than I will ever be.  But I do like seeing what my college friends look like now (I'm in my late forties) and Facebook has inspired me to join Weight Watchers.  (Doubt that MSNBC thinks that that's cool, either.)  20 pounds off, 15 more to go and I get a picture of my own.

On a serious note, do get some photos of you with the kids and partner - whether you FB them or not.  One of the things I still regret is not having enough photos of one of my grandmothers before she passed away - your family will love to have photos of you with them during their lives as the years go by, and I think it's important to make sure that happens occasionally! I hate photos of myself, but know how important photos of my family were to me when I went to college or the time I was in the hospital for an extended stay - so I grit my teeth and bear it now.

Considering when people find me on Facebook, they see pictures of my daughter (who is 3.5) and they think it is me when I was that age, that I have scanned in photos and useing them as my profile picture! If she looks that much like me, I am posting a picture of myself online!

Ha, on days when I think I look OK (spent a teensy bit of time on hair and makeup), I bring the camera wherever we go and hand it to my husband, saying, "Take a picture of me with the kids."  And I try to get one where they're not right next to my face so I can crop them out and just have me in one darn picture for Facebook! I hear ya, ladies--I'm the photographer in the family, too.

I agree with you Leahsmom. I recently had that talk with my mom who always looks angry in pictures. I told her to suck it up and smile. Her grandkids will cherish those pictures when she is gone. That is my motivation for squeezing my fat ass into picutes with the kids.

My facebook picture is me and my daughter at her softball game. My myspace picture is a self-portrait (I am holding the camera) of me and my husband. Yes, I have been doing these since middle school. When my friends and family look at my facebook and myspace they want to see pictures of my kids anyway. They know what my mug looks like but my kids are growing and changing.

I keep personal pix available on facebook only to friends, so I didn't want a personal photo of any kind as my profile pic because it would then be available to anyone.  I use a close up of my eye, but I have similiarly privacy-minded friends who use cute icons instead of a photo.  I'm pregnant now, but I don't want pix of my kids available to just anyone either, so they will be kept in the friends only album as well.

Amen sister! I'm in the same boat. Besides, our dog is much more photogenic than me.