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“One is the amount of information that you give away, which might include things like date of birth, place of birth, the child’s full name, or tagging of any photographs with a geographical location – anything that could be used by somebody who wanted to steal your child’s identity. “There are two things to be careful about,” says Victoria Nash, acting director of the Oxford Internet Institute. It seems harmless, as my privacy settings mean that only my friends can see them. I do it because I want to share the growth and development of my children with friends and relatives who don’t necessarily live nearby. I have never really thought these rules through, they are more instincts. But there are photos that I probably wouldn’t share naked photos of my kids snaps where I or they are captured in unflattering poses and shots that might clearly identify where we live (just in case someone decides to sneak over and attack us in the night). I do it myself, though sparingly – and admittedly this is more to cultivate the image that my life hasn’t been completely swamped by my kids, rather than because of any safety fears. A recent US study found that 63% of mums use Facebook of these, 97% said they post pictures of their child 89% post status updates about them, and 46% post videos. When it comes to posting pictures of kids, parents are often the worst culprits. But is it safe, or even ethical to publish something about someone who can’t give their consent? And as the business models of social networking sites change and digital technology develops, could these innocent snapshots someday come back and bite our children on the behind? Most people who have a relationship with a child will have posted, or thought about posting something about them on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at some point. By signing up to social networking sites we also consciously agree to them using our personal data to some degree.
Occasionally we make mistakes, posting an embarrassing photo or an angry comment, say, but we are consenting adults and these are our mistakes to make.
One implication is that most of us give far less thought to what we post online than in the days when we had to go home and switch on our computers before telling the world what we had been up to. Love it or loathe it, Facebook is a fact of modern life, and the arrival of smartphones has made the process of updating your status near-effortless.
I felt horrified I had effectively broken the embargo on their baby. She asked if I would kindly delete the post, which I immediately did. Most of them didn’t even know she had entered labour she certainly hadn’t got around to sending out that all-important first photo. Her inbox had been flooded with messages from friends congratulating her on the birth of their son. The tone was light-hearted, but she was obviously upset. People love photos of new babies, so it’s not surprising that within a couple of hours I had amassed tens of likes, as well as multiple comments. Without really thinking, I opened the Facebook app on my phone and uploaded the photo, alongside a reference to my friend and the caption: “what a difference a month makes.” It seemed to say so much: here were two fresh baby boys who would likely grow up with a catalogue of shared childhood memories, their friendship predetermined by their parents’ relationship. On my way home, I looked at the photo and felt a swell of pride. Max was already a good two inches longer than the new baby, which I found startling as he was still so tiny, and he had already started to lose some of that crinkly new-baby look. I took a photo of the two of them lying side by side one in a red Baby-gro, the other in white. My friend, let’s call her Katy, invited me over to meet her own new arrival, a little boy exactly one month younger than my son, Max. And yet in October 2012, swept away with the excitement of the birth of my son (and probably a little sleep-deprived), I made a terrible mistake. T here is an unwritten rule that one does not post photos of other people’s children on Facebook.
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