Flick through any family photo album and there’s sure to be an image of some relative or another swollen with child.

It’s what we do to document time, to tell the stories of our families.

Once upon a time these ­photographs lived in the privacy of our homes but, with the dawn of social media, everything has changed.

Today, photo albums remain bare yet Facebook pages are loaded with everything we once kept sacred.

Every woman has the right to share her pregnancy progression with others personally or online.

But with news of a social media predator in our midst, maybe it’s time to stop and think about who is really seeing the images of our lives.

This week, the Australian Multiple Birth Association will take part in an international campaign to warn women of a fake Facebook profile that steals photographs for a pregnancy fetish website.

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The news is at once disturbing and intrusive. 

But it also begs the question: Is ­posting something in the social media stratosphere ever safe?

It would, sadly, appear not.

Women choose to post stories about their pregnancies and subsequent births on closed Facebook pages as a way to connect with others in a safe environment.

And not a week goes by when we don’t see a (filtered) selfie of some Kardashian or another posing in a pregnant glow.

But when you really think about it, none of it is safe because when an image is posted we can’t really control where it ends up or under whose gaze it may fall.