Something at work the other day prompted me to look up a pupil from an old class of mine (I´m a teacher) on Facebook and this led me onto profiles for almost every child in the class. We are talking here about children in Year 5 at primary school, so 9-10 year olds. Firstly, I was amazed that all their pages were open to the public so I could see all their posts and secondly, the content and photos really bothered me. Yes, I know it´s none of my business, but, the bottom line is just how much I realised children aren´t children any more.
Several of the boys had the typical selfie shot taken in the bathroom mirror, no shirt on, and flexing their (non-existant) muscles. 9-year old boys!!!!! If it wasn´t so sad, it would be almost funny. Then there were photos of the boys in the pub, arms round each other, standing infront of the bar as though they were 18 years old down the pub on a Friday night. They are just kids, but living their lives like they are adults. What worries me more than anything is how their parents haven´t intervened to, at the very least, make their profiles private. It just seems such an easy way of making them so vulnerable. AIBU and is this just something that we need to accept amongst young children these days?
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BocaDeTrucha · 23/07/2014 21:30
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