Daily posts of baby on FB

[shebird]

A family member had a baby 6 months ago. Since the day baby was born she posts at least 3 photos and sometimes videos of baby together with updates on baby's weight, sleep and how much she's has expressed I thought this might have dwindled out as baby got older but it's not looking likely.

I'm aware that I can hide her posts and I am not having a moan about how annoying I find FB. My concern is for the child's privacy. We are not talking the odd cute photo here, pretty much all of this child's life to date has been documented on FB. Do children not have a right to have everything shared online or AIBU?

You just disapprove of any engineering other than your own brand of seriously hands on-pretending to be hands off.

But how can you say that greed is hard wired into us all which is why we teach our children to recognise it and to not be greedy? What's the point of a) teaching someone to recognise something that comes naturally to them, anyway, and b) teaching them not to be something they will be, anyway? You are admitting that we are, as human beings, capable of self control.

Sorry, didn't explain that well. Greed drives corruption which is what you were talking about. Greed for money and power. It is a natural human instinct to secure and hoard resources. Money is a resource, and pore is a tool to secure resource. They feed families.

We teach our children not to be greedy. We teach them to share. They share their sweets with their siblings. They are chastised when they throw tantrums for having been forced to share things they don't want to share. Toys, iPad time, etc. I assume this goes on as they grow older, but children aren't there yet, and I may be wrong. Maybe they just do all these things naturally after a certain age, and never experience an inclination to be greedy again.

What goes on in the City by those inclined to corruption is just greed. Greed and the inclination to act upon it has existed since the beginning of recorded time. You can pretend it hasn't, or that it is pointless teaching our children not to submit to it, but it does exist in everyone. It's only how we are taught to deal with it that changes.

Okay. This is getting pointless now, and has little to do with the OPs question. There is nothing I any of your questions rabbit that has nothing to do with children's online privacy.

So, you are implicating peoples' upbringings when you talk about their behaviours - and therefore think that you can have some influence over what your children end up doing. Whilst simultaneously professing not to want to stop them doing anything they choose. Not entirely free will, is it? You've engineered the situation from the beginning.

If teaching a child in your mind is 'engineering', then I guess we are all guilty of teaching our children. It is what parents do. You teach your child what you teach them. I teach my child what I teach them. We both 'engineer' children. Strange choice of word, but your choice of word.

Exactly - how we are taught to deal with it... Because we recognise that it is something that needs to be dealt with, not accepted in all forms of its expression. It is not necessary or desirable to accept law breaking and corruption as the norm.

Was talking about greed, btw...

You just disapprove of any engineering other than your own brand of seriously hands on-pretending to be hands off.

You can 'engineer' your children to do whatever it is you want to do with them. It doesn't bother me, so long as it's legal and they are not harmed. And even en I'd trust there are others who are far better placed to intervene than I. I have no interest in what you do with your children. You asked me about mine, and I told you what I believed. You then continued to scrutinise my beliefs for three pages, and I obliged openly.

But this has now got nothing to do with OP or online privacy for children, and is looking a lot like trolling and flaming.

You 'engineer' your children and do what you please with them. I do not even agree with your language about children anymore.

Now I am nearly wetting myself - But you're right. No-one really wants that for their family, least of all their children. Too much hard work, and it's never likely to happen to poeple like us, anyways. Best just enjoy life on FB. We can teach little Jimmy that kids like him can't do things like that, because if they could, we'd have done it long ago. And just to make sure, we'll plaster the internet with as much of his personal information as we can. That way everyone will see that we're just like them, we'll get lots of thumbs up, and little Jimmy won't ever be able to prove us wrong.
If you knew the people I knew, how much they earn, the estates they have and the things they post on FB... you could not have missed the mark more here.
I also assume your VIP job didn't involve spelling or perhaps they didn't vet for that?
Yes, I must stop being dragged into a thread that started off as a vaguely bitchy eye roll of a post and touched on an interesting theme of security before descending into some bizarre attempt at snobbery and elitism from someone who doesn't seem to have much of an idea of the concept other than it must be corrupt as well as everyone with aspirations and money living in the City .