The fashion of selfies leads many to display themselves without control on all online networks and platforms at their disposal. Well, choose it yourself, we could say. But what happens when it is a small child who is exposed on the Internet, without asking for it, without knowing it? The most enthusiastic parents to share images of their offspring get that, before they turn five they circulate no less than a thousand photographs of children online.
That is why it is not strange that some children, when they grow up, rebel against it and even denounce their parents, as has already happened in Austria and can occur in France. We have already spoken on other occasions of what there is or what is not behind that obsession to share images of children and the case is that adults do not realize too much what happens with those photographs of our children, who totally escape our control
But that's how it is and it has been studied, in the first years of the children the parents share about 200 photographs per year, so that after five years they already exist thousand images of children circulating on the web: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, blogs... It is even the case that many parents have the perception that if they do not share images of their children or their work as parents, they are not committed parents.
That is, the more photos you publish of your child, the better father or mother you are. But this obviously has nothing to do with the scale of "good parents" and, in any case, what is shown is that the photos on the Internet are beyond our control, so, conversely, will not those things be irresponsible Parents who share so many snapshots of their lives, putting the privacy of the family and even their safety at stake?
At such a young age, many children have a powerful digital identity manufactured by their parents, which can correspond to a greater or lesser extent with the true identity of the children, still in training, and with which they may, when they grow up, do not they agree or even that they may be ashamed of.
Though not everything is negative in the fact of sharing images of our little ones (something that is undoubtedly done without malice), since parents often feel helped by others when they share concerns or problems they are having with their children, in a kind of "collective comfort," supported by the parent community, especially If they are close. Anyway, this could also be achieved safely just by explaining the situation that concerns us and writing the child's first name, without photographs.
Surely these days many parents have shared snapshots of their shoots at Christmas parties, with their new clothes, on holidays, opening their gifts ... And it is normal that those who have become the center of our lives occupy the greatest part of our cards in phones or cameras and it is inevitable to wish to share our pride, especially with loved ones.
Photos from afar, in which children cannot be seen or do not reveal where we are (much less where we live) are options with fewer risks. We must also check and determine the privacy of our publications, something that not all users do.
Because if we do not control the number of images shared to the whole world of our children, they will reach five years with more than a thousand photographs out of control, leading to future overexposure and the risks discussed above. And remember, not for sharing fewer photos of the little ones (or for getting more or less likes) we are better or worse parents.
