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I'm not trying to offend/attack here, but I still miss the point. IF in ten years everyone has pictures online and due to some weird shift of culture and perce

I'm not trying to offend/attack here, but I still miss the point. IF in ten years everyone has pictures online and due to some weird shift of culture and perception that is normal, everyone else is weird: Let your kids post their pictures. When they're old enough to decide that for themselves. That's why I argued that you certainly can have pictures of your kids and arguably should. For yourself and your mature/adult kids.

scotty79 13y ago
> Let your kids post their pictures. When they're old enough to decide that for themselves. Posting all your own childhood photos might also be perceived as weird in the future (isn't it now?). Personally I believe our children and grandchildren will live in much more transparent times. I think they should feel good with transparency and demand transparency. Hiding them from the world goes in exactly opposite direction.
- darklajid 13y ago
  I guess we have to disagree in the end. Transparency is important - in public. The government, work, politics in general should be transparent. But using transparency as a reason to kill any notion of privacy (because that's what "not posting pictures of my kid" is about) is a strange point to make. There's no reason at all for someone on the internet to ask about 'transparency' regarding the daily life of my family, my children. That'd be an utterly ridiculous demand to make. My sex life isn't 'transparent' in that way either.
  - scotty79 13y ago
    > I guess we have to disagree in the end. I'm always up for that. I'm not saying that private lives should be transparent. Only that they will be. Therefore I believe that kids comfortable with over-sharing will have easier lives, psychologically. I think we are one of the last generations that believe privacy to be natural state. I think our grandchildren will be absolutely devastated when they find out that because of some technical glitch there's no recording of the event they just experienced semi-privately.

scotty79 13y ago

> Let your kids post their pictures. When they're old enough to decide that for themselves. Posting all your own childhood photos might also be perceived as weird in the future (isn't it now?). Personally I believe our children and grandchildren will live in much more transparent times. I think they should feel good with transparency and demand transparency. Hiding them from the world goes in exactly opposite direction.

darklajid 13y ago
I guess we have to disagree in the end. Transparency is important - in public. The government, work, politics in general should be transparent. But using transparency as a reason to kill any notion of privacy (because that's what "not posting pictures of my kid" is about) is a strange point to make. There's no reason at all for someone on the internet to ask about 'transparency' regarding the daily life of my family, my children. That'd be an utterly ridiculous demand to make. My sex life isn't 'transparent' in that way either.
- scotty79 13y ago
  > I guess we have to disagree in the end. I'm always up for that. I'm not saying that private lives should be transparent. Only that they will be. Therefore I believe that kids comfortable with over-sharing will have easier lives, psychologically. I think we are one of the last generations that believe privacy to be natural state. I think our grandchildren will be absolutely devastated when they find out that because of some technical glitch there's no recording of the event they just experienced semi-privately.