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People posting pics of their children in hospital online

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Rolson77 · 25/04/2024 19:25

Why is this a thing? A friend (old school friend, we dont really speak other than in passing) of mine just 3 weeks ago had a normal amount of followers/friends online. Now her daughter is in hospital with a serious illness and she's opened up her social media, now has over 30k followers, because of the pics she's posting of her daughter online. One of them is her daughter crying with a dr/nurse putting a needle in her back. Another of her hand with a bloody cannula in it describing how she keeps pulling it out. Etc. Her daughter is 7 and cannot give informed consent for this. I don't know why it's pissed me off so much. Is this normal? Using your kids' illness to get likes and followers?

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cherish123 · 25/04/2024 19:32

@HappierTimesAhead exactly. This is how I feel.

Definitelynotslim · 25/04/2024 19:32

Yes it's sickening.
One mum I've seen posting a selfie of herself with her son clearly visible on a nebuliser.
Utterly ridiculous, total lack of brain cells.

Chunkycookie · 25/04/2024 19:32

I find it sickening to be honest.

One of my children was in NICU. The staff had to remind me to take photos, or I wouldn’t have had any of his first few weeks of life. I was so frightened and focused on him that I just didn’t think of it.

I couldn’t imagine Then uploading those photos to the internet.

Doubtisthemaster · 25/04/2024 19:31

It's literally the last thing that would cross my mind to do if my child was in hospital. Then again I don't do social media anyway and never post pictures of anyone online. She's exploiting her child for followers imo.

peakygold · 25/04/2024 19:30

There is a family in our town who do this sort of thing. They even had a photo of a relative in the back of an ambulance. How desperate do you have to be for 'likes' to sink so low?

FlyingUnderTheRadar · 25/04/2024 19:30

This is what happens when people become so addicted to the dopamine hit of “likes” that posting deeply questionable shit like this online becomes a spinal reflex rather than a conscious thought. Awful.

HappierTimesAhead · 25/04/2024 19:29

It's really weird and if my child was in hospital it is the last thing I would be thinking of doing.

HP89 · 25/04/2024 19:27

YANBU- I hate this.