What would you do about this Facebook share

[Kewcumber]

Some of you may have seen the picture that is being shared around facebook at the moment of a man with a 2 year old ish boy purporting to be his birth father.

Child will be 18 later this year and birth father is getting as many people as possible to share so that the boy will contact him.

I have no idea of the facts or even if its true (and frankly neither does anyone else who has shared it) but the presumed birth father had given first names of adoptive parents (and ethnic origin of one) and the child and the area he was adopted into so pretty identifiable.

I am massively uncomfortable about this for a number of reasons mostly to do with it verging on harrassment of the child, BF has no idea whether the child has shared the fact of his adoption with his friends and community and the child may not have made the decision whether he wants contact with his birth father yet but now its quite possible that others may put pressure on him to do so.

It all makes me squirm.

But I suppose my question is - do I go out on a limb and put a commetn on my friends link saying all of this?

Great link Martha I shared that on facebook.

You're welcome. We're kind of going throughout this as a family at the moment. My 2 siblings (adopted) are 18-20yrs old and vulnerable, and have ben contacted by their birth family via Facebook in a completely inappropriate way.

A friend of mine shared this and I sent a text to explain why it's such a disturbing post. I don't think it occurs to some people and generally speaking why would it. Anyway, we talked it through and they took it straight down. If people understood a bit more then I doubt they'd share, it's just too easy to hit the share button.