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I feel sorry for kids these days, thinking about how videos and pictures (and plenty of embarassing ones at that) are plastered all over social media by their p

I feel sorry for kids these days, thinking about how videos and pictures (and plenty of embarassing ones at that) are plastered all over social media by their parents with them having no ability to ever exercise any control on limiting the sharing of the videos and pictures once they are older and potentially bothered/annoyed about it all. That being said, it's hard to really regulate this. When someone has a baby, they usually share a photo in a public manner of the entire family. It's hard to argue that parents shouldn't be able to share any pictures of their family in a public manner. It also would then prevent journalists or anyone for that matter, from taking pictures in public spaces that contained any minors... which starts to get absurd. Hopefully my kids will appreciate that we never posted pictures of them publicly on social media (only shared privately within immediate family). At the very least, it's one less thing they'll have to worry about as they grow up.

throwaway-1283 8y ago
As a parent you should be able to share to a private FB, a private IG, a private YT account. That's fine, because you presumably have control over who sees those photos (hopefully people you actually know). I'm also not talking about someone sharing a photo publicly with someone else's kid in the background. I just mean as a parent you should need consent to share a video of your kids to a public social media channel. If your kid cannot give consent because they are underage or refuses, then you shouldn't be able to share it.
- magnetic 8y ago
  > As a parent you should be able to share to a private FB, a private IG, a private YT account. That's fine, because you presumably have control over who sees those photos (hopefully people you actually know). I'm afraid not a lot of parents/people would be willing to pay for such service, so I'm unsure this is going to happen any time soon.
Loughla 8y ago
>Hopefully my kids will appreciate that we never posted pictures of them publicly on social media (only shared privately within immediate family). At the very least, it's one less thing they'll have to worry about as they grow up. The trick is to live like it's 1980. We have many, many pictures of our child, but only 10-15 on social media (of things like winning sporting events or the like). Everything else is in digital form on drives in our home server or printed in physical frames. If/when the child decides they want to do something with their photos, there they are. Also handy to have on the home server because we can turn any screen into a digital frame on our network. That will be great when they bring their first boy/girlfriend home. People just feel the impulsive need to share literally everything on social media. Everything is a competition for likes and attention. It's disgusting.
- _coveredInBees 8y ago
  Yup. We still print out an annual photobook that we spend time making with all our favorite pics/memories from the year and the kids love going through the picture books every so often. There is something very different in the way they experience a physical picture book vs. viewing the images on a tablet/computer.
mediumdeviation 8y ago
Ironically the first time I’ve seen this point made is in an Onion video - 6-Year-Old Explains How Messed Up It Is That Her Entire Life Has Been Put On Facebook https://www.theonion.com/6-year-old-explains-how-messed-up-it-is-that-her-entire-1826840659 https://www.theonion.com/6-year-old-explains-how-messed-up-i...

throwaway-1283 8y ago

As a parent you should be able to share to a private FB, a private IG, a private YT account. That's fine, because you presumably have control over who sees those photos (hopefully people you actually know). I'm also not talking about someone sharing a photo publicly with someone else's kid in the background. I just mean as a parent you should need consent to share a video of your kids to a public social media channel. If your kid cannot give consent because they are underage or refuses, then you shouldn't be able to share it.

magnetic 8y ago
> As a parent you should be able to share to a private FB, a private IG, a private YT account. That's fine, because you presumably have control over who sees those photos (hopefully people you actually know). I'm afraid not a lot of parents/people would be willing to pay for such service, so I'm unsure this is going to happen any time soon.

Loughla 8y ago

>Hopefully my kids will appreciate that we never posted pictures of them publicly on social media (only shared privately within immediate family). At the very least, it's one less thing they'll have to worry about as they grow up. The trick is to live like it's 1980. We have many, many pictures of our child, but only 10-15 on social media (of things like winning sporting events or the like). Everything else is in digital form on drives in our home server or printed in physical frames. If/when the child decides they want to do something with their photos, there they are. Also handy to have on the home server because we can turn any screen into a digital frame on our network. That will be great when they bring their first boy/girlfriend home. People just feel the impulsive need to share literally everything on social media. Everything is a competition for likes and attention. It's disgusting.

_coveredInBees 8y ago
Yup. We still print out an annual photobook that we spend time making with all our favorite pics/memories from the year and the kids love going through the picture books every so often. There is something very different in the way they experience a physical picture book vs. viewing the images on a tablet/computer.

mediumdeviation 8y ago

Ironically the first time I’ve seen this point made is in an Onion video - 6-Year-Old Explains How Messed Up It Is That Her Entire Life Has Been Put On Facebook https://www.theonion.com/6-year-old-explains-how-messed-up-it-is-that-her-entire-1826840659 https://www.theonion.com/6-year-old-explains-how-messed-up-i...