If you have children, and you post about them on Facebook, please read this: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/dont-post-about-me-on-social-media-children-say/
I've occasionally pointed out to parents when they've posted embarrassing things about their kids online - your kids are not gonna like that when they grow up.
Growing up, we all met parents who would force their kids to recite poems or sing when guests came home. I was never put through that horror. But our family album did have a couple of embarrassing photos of me. At least, they were embarrassing to me growing up; now I see what my parents saw in it - art. One of them was of me playing naked with some other naked boys, in the sea at Puri.
Both my kids are well aware that anything you put on Facebook is (potentially) visible to everyone in the world. And they care about the public's perception of them. Just because they said something to me and I found it cute or perceptive, I can't share it online without their explicit permission. They even get into the family photo album and delete photos they don't like. Sometimes I've posted about them when they are asleep or away, and on later review, I've had to take it down even if it was garnering a lot of likes.
Because how your children feel is more important than "likes"!
I am sharing this because many of you have kids younger than mine, who may not understand social media or be able to express themselves at this point. But this how they'll feel once grown up.
I've occasionally pointed out to parents when they've posted embarrassing things about their kids online - your kids are not gonna like that when they grow up.
Growing up, we all met parents who would force their kids to recite poems or sing when guests came home. I was never put through that horror. But our family album did have a couple of embarrassing photos of me. At least, they were embarrassing to me growing up; now I see what my parents saw in it - art. One of them was of me playing naked with some other naked boys, in the sea at Puri.
Both my kids are well aware that anything you put on Facebook is (potentially) visible to everyone in the world. And they care about the public's perception of them. Just because they said something to me and I found it cute or perceptive, I can't share it online without their explicit permission. They even get into the family photo album and delete photos they don't like. Sometimes I've posted about them when they are asleep or away, and on later review, I've had to take it down even if it was garnering a lot of likes.
Because how your children feel is more important than "likes"!
I am sharing this because many of you have kids younger than mine, who may not understand social media or be able to express themselves at this point. But this how they'll feel once grown up.