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Moms and Facebook
I recently logged back on to Facebook. I was a member briefly last year but halted it as I didn’t like the old application.
Facebook is good for keeping in touch with old friends as I have been doing that in the past week. I noticed old friends sharing pregnancy photos and many of their children. Many moms have their kids photos as their profile picture. I’m guilty of that too with social applications. However, I don’t go overboard on it.
Right now on Facebook I only have a couple of photos up of the kids and don’t really plan to put too much information on there. Like blogging, I feel a little paranoid about featuring my kids. After all, the Internet is so open.
Perhaps other moms want to put their kids up on the profile photos because they look cuter than themselves?
I wonder if when my son and daughter grow up, they will be upset that I put some of their baby photos online. If the Internet existed and my parents did, I personally wouldn’t be. However, everyone has an opinion on this and some may say it’s exploitation. I remember watching The Today Show a few months ago with the topic being mommy bloggers. A very well known blogger was on the show being interviewed about her blog, in which she makes thousands of ad dollars from. Instead of expecting nice, general questions about blogging, Kathie Lee Gifford went on to insinuate that it might be a little exploitive to have her daughter’s pictures published regularly and wasn’t it going to bite the blogger back when she’s an adult?
Isn’t the same as with Jon & Kate’s kids? Sure, they are a reality show but these kids are all very young and have no ruling over the matter. The same I ask about blogging. Doesn’t the same go for the popular blogger making money off her kid? What I just wrote could be controversial but that is my opinion.
What about you? How do you feel about children’s photos on Facebook and on blogs?
(Photo: MSNBC)
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