Publication Date: 2015-08-18
Last week, Manoush sat down with The Longest Shortest Time's Hillary Frank and Note to Self's Jen Poyant to talk about the even-bigger-than-we'd-anticipated question: Do you post pictures of your kids online? More than 1,000 people sent in feedback. Roughly half say they do; half say they don't.  Here are just some of the many, many thoughtful rationales out there: Local Politics: "It's privacy and it's consent. It's also thinking about a child's future potential employer, who might search for said child and find embarrassing things or reflections of the parents' political or religious views, with which said employer might disagree...costing the kid a job, through no fault of the kid's." - Becky from New York International Politics: "About six years ago the then-President (or Prime Minister) of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, went to Washington to a meeting with president Obama. During this visit, a photo was taken of President Obama and [his] wife together with president Zapatero, his wife and their two daughters. In Spain [it] is illegal to publish pictures of minors in the newspapers so the pictures looked like this.. but of course on the internet there are no secrets... and these two girls were the target of jokes in two countries. And I'm sure that to this day, not a day passes by that they don't think about it. When it comes to the privacy of your kids... one mistake can be expensive." - A. Sanz from Spain Workarounds: @NoteToSelf Great episode! Re controlling photos etc so Instagram can't delete them, check out https://t.co/JTkQu39CpX Worthwhile community. — Ryan Barrett (@schnarfed) August 15, 2015 The Power of Cute Kids: "I can totally understand the reasons of parents who don't post... but I want to say thanks to parents who DO post! Friends and family, and sometimes people I don't even know — there have been many many times that my really bad day, really sad feelings, really depressed mood, have all been uplifted and my heart healed by sweet photos of kids. Those cute little cheeks, the funny things they do, the sweet smiles... so thank you!" - Gurukarm from Massachusetts No One Cares As Much As You Think They Do: "I think there is an argument to be made that not posting pictures of your kids can be narcissistic. Sometimes (and probably most of the time) people will see the picture you post in passing, they will hit the "like" button and move on... I think my kid is great, that does not mean that every picture I post of him is poured over by family and acquaintances and is analyzed to the point of creating a presumptive psychological profile of who he is. - Keith from Virginia Beach No One Will Care As Much As Your Kid Will Think They Should: "Everything your kid does is not special — the soccer game he didn't win shouldn't get a trophy, the first trip to the dentist/barber/whatever doesn't need to be tweeted live, and photos do not need to be shared daily." - Jil from Westchester Privacy Is a Lost Cause: "If you want online privacy for your children, stop naming them "Daxley". Give them the most popular name possible. Lots harder to find Jenny Smith than it is to find Xanderly Pendergast." - Stacey Coleman 

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