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Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I really hope it becomes the new normal to stop posting everything about ourselves non-anonymously online in general. But especially photos and information about kids. I am hopeful that in the near future, we'll all look back and say "What the fuck were we thinking? We all looked like narcissists exploiting our kids for likes!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Growing up at the dawn of the internet, this was considered normal. You stay anonymous online because you don’t know who the person on the other end of the screen is. What changed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Normies got in and big Internet knew they could make money by having everyone give up all private information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy to me for many of the people in my demographic consider it totally normal to have all of your online social interactions tied to the same persona/user, using your real name, face, locale, employment status, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Stuff people do online is potentially public forever. WCGW?