Is anyone else creeped out by the disturbing about of people using Flickr for?

Let me get this straight. YOU put the images up onto a world wide sharing site and leave the privacy settings at a level where people can see and "favourite" them. Then you get upset/disturbed when people do just that. Who is at fault here, you for posting them for the world to see in the first place or someone who adds them to their favourites?? I do agree that favouriting only pictures of kids is strange, but..... it is public knowledge they are doing so and ultimately if people such as yourself do not like it then don't post your images so that everyone can see them.

I'm not 100% but I think that if there's no nudity or nothing obviously provocative about the image then it's legal and there's little you can do... perhaps report the perverts to Flickr and keep up the good work...

That's a bunch of favourites. Block that person and your work will disappear. The magic word to get flickr abuse moving is to issue a DMCA takedown notice. Search flickr forums and you will find a few examples

Yeah, that is insanely creepy. I'm an avid flickr user, and there are usually 3 types of flickr-ers: people like you, who use it to post photos of their family (which is totally common and normal, photog), photographers getting feedback on their work, and porn people. Usually, those categories don't overlap. I rarely come in contact with the porn people, and only sometimes I stumble across a momma posting photos of last week's barbeque. I agree that this person is a pedobear. Please report this to flickr, make all of your little girl photos private, and stop tagging your photos. If you are also a photographer, create another account for your photography and tag your photos there. And pray that he didn't print the photos out already! Dear lord, is everyone a pedophile nowadays? Best of luck.

OK, I can see your point, I see what you are getting at, it's a little creepy. But whilst I see no actual illegal activity taking place (I'm not going through all the images in the links you have provided, I'm going to assume that there are no underage nude images!) I do wonder why you are getting so worked up when you have put the images of your daughter online in the first place! If you did not want anybody to see them then you should have made your Flickr profile private so it can only be viewed by yourself or other people with permission. .

It's the 21st century. The internet is a haven for peadophiles, something which isn't exactly a big secret. Yet you come along, post pictures of your children on a free to use public website and then complain when someone 'likes' them, someone you don't know. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD WOMAN IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! If you didn't put them up there in the first place these people wouldn't be able to act the way they do. It would be a lot harder for them. YOU ARE PROVIDING THEM WITH AMMUNITION and yet have the temerity to complain afterwards. They're pictures of your children, private memento's. If you want critique of your photography skills go photograph a landscape and put that on there, not your family snapshots!

I agree it's a little creepy, but there's probably nothing you can do about it. I'd suggest taking down your daughter's pictures, or make your flickr page private so that people need permission to see it.