Italy considers law against sharenting to protect children's privacy
Oversharing kids' images online is popular, but dangerous.
Good!
It’s super creepy and disgusting how some parents use their children as props for social media “content” 🤮
Ruby whatever her name was comes to mind.
This is really important imo. Kids grow up predisposed to stupid oversharing of their private life. It cripples their ability to experiment and make mistakes if they have to fear being exposed to a giant audience.
I remember reading something about how gen Z, the first generation that had social media from early childhood, are more avoidant in making big life decisions than previous generations due to the sensitivity to publicly making a mistake.
Risk aversion is good for many things, but a lot of the best life experiences/accomplishments you can have require taking a leap at some point.
If you fell on your face before the camera phone. Your 2 friends laughed at you. Nowadays the whole school laughes at the video of you for a week or more. I am not at all suprised that young people are risk avoidant. I feel so very priveleged that I grew up in the slim timeframe while the internet was new and exciting and made modem warbling noises. And not now in the time when we are permanently connected, and absolutly everything on the internet is trying to exploit you, and have a team of psycoanalysts to make it most effective on you.
a lot of the best life experiences/accomplishments you can have require taking a leap at some point.
For sure, im not even a parent yet but this stuff is so complicated to deal with
I tell you what, I said a lot of things as a child that I would vehemently disagree with today. If I had to be branded with that staining my image for life, I don't think I could deal with the shame.
Also some parents just don't know any better.
A friend used to routinely post about her children on Facebook and other SM, until someone claiming to be a grandmother tried to pick up one of her children from school. Fortunately, the school had safeguards in place and followed protocol. All those posts and pictures were deleted immediately.
Its so sad that stuff like this needs to happen before people wake up. The kids dont deserve failures like this as parents.
She was a decent enough, but doting mom. She was proud of her kids and thought the whole world should be blessed with their antics. It wasn't attention seeking or income generating. She just had a blind spot, assuming that because she wouldn't dream of doing that, no one else would. And it is sad, to me, that she was robbed if that innocence in a very visceral way; but she did learn a valuable lesson and never forgot it, either
Sharenting.
Close relation with Sharting
I would go for shit parenting
The Shartening
I wonder what they consider oversharing. Where exactly is that line?
The first article will require parents to officially declare the use of their children's image online to the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM). If a direct profit is gained from these activities, parents will have to transfer the money to a bank account in the child's name, which will be accessible to the child after they turn 18 years old.
Interesting because I think most family channels do it for money now, though as part of a college fund may work. If you have multiple kids and parents in a video how will it be divied up?
Yhe fuk is sharenting
I was confused as well, so I went out of my way to find this article which explains it.
I'd rather see them put a lot of effort into educating folks instead. If they're well educated about how everything works, this issue, and others in the future, would be addressed.
The parents are already "burned" and wont change from some info campaign. The abuse starts before school or even kindergarden age so there is no chance to educate the victims.
As someone who's always hated being publicized, yes pls.