Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by riffraff on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:44AM (#17923925)

I've often heard of this, I understand the basic argument of removing someone's freedom.

I've managed to convince my spouse to not share many of our kids' pictures on social media due to some concerns, but I am unsure the worry about grown up people being worried about their pics as kids is justified.

Do you feel a person in the twenties or teens will be impacted by the fact that 10 years earlier their parents shared a cute picture of them?

I am trying to understand, not argue.

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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by learc83 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:35AM (#17924295)

I feel the same way. My mom is a photographer. I still occasionally see old pictures of myself and my siblings in random articles.

I can't imagine how I could possibly be harmed by the existence of pictures of me as a kid. Yep I was once a child and photos were taken.

I made the front page of my home town paper for various minor awards a few times too. Should the newspaper have been concerned about the morality of publishing a photo I might someday object to?

There are pictures of me in hundreds of copies of people's year books too.

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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by Lazeb on Friday September 07, 2018 @06:19AM (#17933126)

It's more about being fair on the kids, the only pictures of me when I was a kid was on photograph film, later digital but most pictures of my childhood are somewhere in the attic where they get taken out once every few years maybe. And while everyone can appreciate having those memories available, having instant access to them by friends and family isn't something I'd ever want as a child of my parents.

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