Think again before you post online those pics of your kids

[C C]

http://theconversation.com/think-again-b...kids-70579

EXCERPT: [...] The French government earlier this year warned parents to stop posting images of their children on social media networks. Under France’s rigorous privacy laws, parents could face penalties of up to a year in prison and a fine of €45,000 (A$64,500) if convicted of publicising intimate details of their children without their consent. This new legality is powerful food for thought for parenting in the Facebook era. As adults, we often express dissatisfaction at the ways young people post their lives online. But if we turn the mirror on ourselves, do we as parents actually have the right to make our family photos public? If so, which ones?

[...] We often tell our kids that once something is on the internet it is there forever, and this is a core concern for kids. Research shows that parents often haven’t considered the potential reach and the longevity of the digital information that they’re sharing about their child. Your child won’t have much control over where that home video of her having an embarrassing first singing lesson ends up or who sees it. And for this generation of kids, the publicising of their lives can start even before they are born when parents broadcast photos to all their friends and their friends’ friends of the antenatal scan....

[Magical Realist]

It's basically risk assessment. Does the relatively improbable threat of our child's information being used somehow by malicious strangers outweigh the immediate emotional reward of sharing intimate details of ours and our children's lives. Many would say "no". Living vicariously thru their children and other's children is too important to many bored Facebook users to give up. Besides, Facebook has settings to exclude stranger viewings.

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It's basically risk assessment. Does the relatively improbable threat of our child's information being used somehow by malicious strangers outweigh the immediate emotional reward of sharing intimate details of ours and our children's lives. Many would say "no". Living vicariously thru their children and other's children is too important to many bored Facebook users to give up. Besides, Facebook has settings to exclude stranger viewings.

As the propaganda of a nanny-state government promoted it more and more as incorrect parental activity, with that POV soaking politically into the children via educational system, there might be minor concern about being sued by said children in the future. Rare occurrences usually delegated to offspring with additional motives like grudges against the parents, or those in debt due to financial irresponsibility or substance addiction, or truly being a publicity victim of the early photos. But also a son / daughter who could literally be that robotic and compelled by nothing more than their youthful idealism and academic conditioning, too.