I'm so happy my parents never got into social media before my adulthood. There was some overlap there where they could have plastered images of me all over their facebook feeds without my understanding what that meant.

It's fucking revolting to me to see how normal some people seem to think it is for a parent to do that. IMO it should be straight up illegal and a violation of a child's right to privacy.

[–] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My wife and I are being very careful about this with our son. I only ever post a monthly growth update and have made sure that the extended family isn't posting anything without permission.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Sharing your life, and thereby sometimes the lifes of your children, with friends and family, only makes sense.

My concern is with parents who make no distinction between that, and posting something fully publicly. The latter means the post can go viral, or get screenshotted by a stranger and reposted as a meme somewhere with a huge audience. Or get dug up by anyone, even years later.

[–] BamBamToxico@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

100%

Having your entire infancy and childhood just out there is going to be hell for some kids. Probably already is. Imagine your parents uploading a video of you doing something dumb, but cute, something they and family find adorable. The same video which a couple years later is the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to you when it goes through a viral wave of spreading throughout your local school.

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