The most beautiful children’s photos are often taken on holiday – and parents are happy to share them on Facebook, Instagram, etc. This entails risks that go far beyond the obvious.
For decades, children’s photos were mainly a matter for the photo album and therefore private “secret information”. Only selected copies ended up on the wall or chest of drawers, and only in the rarest cases, usually on special occasions such as holidays, did they leave their own four walls in the form of a greeting card or congratulatory card.
It’s different today. The combination of smartphones with highly developed cameras, social media and the desire for recognition of many parents creates a constant stream of moments from the lives of the little ones captured in photos, but increasingly also in videos – no matter how insignificant they are.
Present on the internet from a young age
‘Sharenting’, a combination of ‘share’ and ‘parenting’, is the name of this phenomenon, which is actually no longer a phenomenon at all. As early as 2017, an American study showed that 90 percent of children under the age of two were already online. In 2021, Child Protection Switzerland talked about an average of 100 photos that parents shared of their children annually on Facebook, Instagram and Co.
And the French association Observatoire de la Parentalité & de L’Éducation Numérique (OPEN) calculates that an average child’s image will be shared 1,300 times on social media by the age of 13, the minimum age for most platforms. Parents are primarily responsible for this; they are generally unaware of the dangers to their children.
Source: Krone
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