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Why you should avoid posting photos of your children on social media

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Human beings love to share their lives with others they know. This is the same reason behind the popularity of social media networks as well. We share our meals, we share our stories, and we even share about our kids on social media. In fact, social media networks have provided an excellent assistance for us to share what we want with other people with minimum hassle.

If you are a person who shares information on social media, you need to take a look at the dark side associated with it as well. In fact, you shouldn’t be involving your kids in the stories that you share on social media. People who did it have encountered a variety of negative consequences in the past. Whether you are working as a social media promoter or you are just sharing your personal stories online, you will need to keep this fact in mind to avoid frustration in the long run.

The process of posting photos of your children in social media networks is called as sharenting. You will think that social media networks have benefited you with sharenting. It is true that you can instantly share moments from your life with others on the social media networks. However, there are some downfalls associated with sharing the photos of your children on social media as well.

Identity theft can be considered as the biggest concern associated with sharing the photos of your children on social media. It has been identified that kids have a higher risk of being victims of identity theft when compared to adults. Due to this reason, you need to think twice before you go ahead and publish a photo of your little on social media.

A large number of predator websites are there, which are engaged in the process of digitally harvesting the images of your little one. You never want to let your child become a victim of such a website. Due to this reason, your child will have to face a lot of issues in the future. The personal information of your child should remain personal on social media as well. Otherwise, there is a high possibility for your little one to encounter psychological risks as well.

Some parents don’t think too much before they publish information about their children on social media. As a result, they go ahead and publish embarrassing content on social media as well. These types of images are usually misappropriated by the general public. Hence, they can generate psychological issues among the mind of your little one.

From one of the recently conducted experiments, it has been identified that around 50% images uploaded to websites that share kids porn are taken from the social media accounts. Kids don’t go ahead and publish their own photos on social media networks. It is the parents who share the images of their kids on social media. If you upload a photo of your kid on social media, there is a high possibility for the hackers to gain access to that photo as well. Then they will go ahead and upload those photos to the websites that share pedophile content. You never want that to happen, don’t you?

You should be a responsible parent when you are using social media. You should also keep in mind about the message that you are communicating to the little one by publishing photos on social media. You should never do this mistake. If you do, the consequences that arise can get irreversible. In such instances, you will only have to worry about what you have done. You have already done the mistake and you cannot go back in time and change it.

The decision whether you want to publish photos of your children on social media or not is entirely up to you. But you need to be aware about the risks and dangers associated with the act you do. You will not lose anything when you refrain from uploading the photos of your little ones in social media. So, why do you want to take a risk and publish the photos of your kids on social media? You should not do that mistake.

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