Many parents currently upload photos of their young children to social networks without caring much about the consequences of the future, but only focus on sharing those images with their family and friends and getting 'likes' to meet their care needs . This cannot be a good way to go if we keep posting pictures of our children without thinking about anything else.
In addition to how dangerous it can be for children to publish their images on social networks or on the Internet without taking into account security restrictions, it can be even more harmful if over the years those images continue to be posted on the Internet without anyone controlling them too much.
An Austrian girl sues her parents for posting photos of her on Facebook since childhood
Perhaps you are also one of the fathers or mothers who have no problems uploading images of your children in any way. If so, it is more than likely that you are interested in knowing the case of an 18-year-old Austrian girl who has decided to sue her parents - since they did not give importance to her requests - for sharing hundreds of photos of her on Facebook since she it was small without her agreeing to it. While it is true that when I was little I was not aware of what social networks were, now it is and wants to remove all those images that her parents uploaded when she was younger.
The young woman comments that she does not want those photos to be on social networks because it only causes her life to be a nightmare. For all this and because it seems that her parents did not pay much attention to her thinking that it would pass, in the end the girl has decided to take legal action against them. It seems that her parents made public any images taken since she was a baby and that the young woman today is causing emotional problems.
But as if that were not enough, after the girl has taken all these measures in a desperate attempt to get her parents to listen to her, it seems that they are not willing to do so ... even if they have more than 700 friends on the Facebook social network . Hopefully, many of those 700 people will not be family or close friends, so they are letting too many people see their intimate life and that of their daughter as well. The father considers that since he is the author of the images, he has more rights over the photographs than his own daughter who appears in them. The young woman's lawyer wants that in addition to removing the photos that the girl be given financial compensation for emotional damage.
Beware of violating the rights of minors
Children have the right to protection of their privacy, and we adults are primarily responsible for this happening. Posting images of your children on social media is directly exposing them to hundreds, thousands or more other people having access to the photos. But the worst thing is not that, the worst thing is that you do not know what all those people can do with the images of your children. Some will just watch them, like them, and nothing else. But others might share them, save those images, or even use them with malicious ideas.
Photographs of children can attract sexual predators, pedophiles, pedophiles ... And the worst thing is that it is the parents themselves who have put those images on a tray on social networks. I do not want to alarm you with all this, but it is the reality and there are many parents who perhaps do not realize the seriousness of uploading images of their children on social networks and making them public, where thousands of people can access them anywhere moment.
And what about emotional damage ...?
As has happened to the Austrian girl, perhaps her parents did not think at any time about the damage they were causing their daughter, perhaps not at that specific moment, but in her not too distant future, such as the current present when the young woman wants to remove all those images that are causing her emotional problems.
It is time to forget the desire to attract the attention of other people, put aside that satisfaction generated by Facebook 'likes' and start thinking about the real satisfaction that spending quality time with children has, take all the photographs you want, but so that they stay in the privacy of your home. You don't need to post anything your youngest child does on social media to share with hundreds of people, of which more than half of them look at your Facebook out of boredom and not because they really care what you do ... and because you will also avoid putting the entire safety of your children at risk.
Privacy first
But if despite all this you want to put images of your children on the Internet because you consider it a good option to share with your closest friends and family, make sure it's really for those people and not hundreds of others you don't even know.
It is important that if you share a photo of your children on social networks, you have maximum privacy so that it is not a public photo and not even so that 'your friends' friends can see it, because you would be expanding the circle too much. Make sure you have the right friends in your social media friends and that only they can see the images. In addition, they must be people of full confidence who know that they will not do anything with those images of your children ... and if you have doubts or have too many friends for whatever reason, then simply avoid risks and do not share the photographs of your children on networks social. They have the right not to be exposed to others since if there are images, they are the ones who decide what to do with those photographs when they can assess it independently.