Instamums 3, 2.0

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Seeing as the original 3 got zapped.

Found this info. Seems to be clear that AD should be at the top of a post.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.4psmarketing.com/blog/new-asa-guidelines-simplified/amp/

The new regs came out last year, I'm still bemused that they are being only slowly and sporadically adhered to, a year later, only after being #trolled #hatedon by several MN threads 🤷🏼‍♀️

Exactly take the kids out and they lose their content.

I am sure they have lots of regular friends but I would imagine those friends (like some of the husbands) don’t want to appear on Insta to tens of the thousands of people. A common accusation of mumsnet users by these bloggers is that we hide behind user names but the simple fact is that I value my privacy. I lock my social media accounts, am careful who I have following and friended and I don’t link my different accounts. I honestly wouldn’t take a free holiday to Disney if it meant having to post pictures of my family to hundreds of thousands of strangers because the strings attached aren’t an exchange i could stomach. What happens when their children grow older or they want to follow a different career path? How would you even go about scrubbing the internet of all records of your life if you wanted to? It’s impossible.

It seems nearly every mum wants to be a instamum/blogger. I had my insta set to public for about an hour then turned it back to private!! Could not bare the thought of strangers looking at my pictures!

@isthisawindup or when your kids peer group take the mickey out of your parents social media and what they have put up of you? I know it's easy when you have little kids to just see them as little, but it's so quick and they are teens, often struggling with so many things. And even just 'oh my god your mum thinks she is so amazing' and the fact that actually while people here are not jealous, kids might be and it's those children who will bear the brunt.
Recently a dad spent all night making a wardrobe costume for world book day, not his, his kids. She didn't win. He won. She wore it. And let's be honest in a year or 2 how comfortable would you be about internet evidence of you wearing a wardrobe? Same dad discussed his masterbating. Hmm classy. 'Your dads a wanker' how brilliant.
Now maybe these families will produce super confident kids but what if they don't? And then a bit of googling and they discover, Disney was a feeebie in return for their pics, and a cereal ad which dad says was fun was for cash. Where's the cash daddy? Oh you have a nice big house.
Come on someone regulated this madness.

You’ve already on a previous thread (can’t remember who) mentioned that they send their kids to a private school and the cost of those fees a year. Has it occurred to you that they’re paying for their education? Saving the money for university? I admire any parent who puts their children through private school, they have 4 jobs, written 3 books between them. They’re hardly lying on their arses whilst money is thrown at them

They're all on IG at least by age 11 and obviously instas are public anyway, so can just be googled by peers. Geez Poor things.

Many parents pay to put their children through private school, allergy, not many children pay their own way through private school, which is arguably what it happening with instamums’ earnings. I certainly don’t admire a parent just because they pay for private school or work hard and do so. Many people work just as hard and don’t earn enough money to do so.

I think they could have afforded the private education without the help of their Instagram careers......

Yep allergy I do admire their work ethic. I doubt insta is paying school fees. And actually I don't think that's any of our business.

@allaboardtheallergybus no they are lying on sunbeds taking it in 🤣
It's clear you have no issue with making money out of your kids and potentially humiliating them but others can question that. Last year he quoted that they struggled to afford nursery for twins, this year nursery for twins and private school, big changes, related to the money those kids have earned them... great if they've saved for uni, the kids will be pleased and it would be wise. The point is that money should be properly managed and in the children's name. 1 instamums has a child model. It's her money. I admire lots of parents but not generally because they sell their kids to pay for private school. Who knows maybe the grandparents pay, I know several people who's grandparents pay for private school. But that's the point they can do whatever they want.
And my point was how bloody embarrassing are most of these accounts, for the kids.
Another instamums had mentioned her kids friends laughing at her stories, luckily she's not particularly offensive or ridiculous, but still.

Some of these messages on here about mod do come across as jealous. I don’t see why it matters how many hols she has had as long as they are declared as ad so people don’t aspire to something they likely wouldn’t be doing if it weren’t free. I also don’t care about the kids in private school, it’s nothing to do with this thread. They are getting a disproportionate ripping compared to others who are doing the same such as the inghams.

@fruitbowl2 the work ethic has changed somewhat considerably. I did really admire it. And it was relatable.
And for someone saying it wouldn't pay private school fees, yes it would. I'm not going to get involved with the accounts linked previously but it seriously would pay.

I don’t care how they spend their money. Yet again Allergy, you’ve managed to steer the conversation back to them when the discussion has moved on!

@heedmove they share far more information than most and have a greater following. The school situation was mentioned by several others and only relevant in the sense of complete lifestyle change. I couldn't care less.
And the holidays weren't ads. Just the last one. So fair play if from now on it's all open.
I haven't noticed MP on free holidays, of Clemmie Telford or dresslikeamum (since the cruise) etc etc.

It couldn't give a toss what the Hoopers spend their instadosh on. It's irrelevant to this argument.

I dunno, MP seemed to have a pretty tagged up trip to Amsterdam recently, and 'bumped into' Zoella (who is with the same agent as her)

@HeedMove
I totally agree they are getting such a shittier time on here than any of parenting blogger. I find them the most relatable because they still kept their normal jobs.

And they’re not the biggest out there the Saconne jolys for example have collectively over 2 million followers on Instagram. For all those who says I don’t follow Mod or Fod you all seem very invested in continuing to discuss them. As someone said PP the unhealthy obsession with them is weird

@mumofkids
Because they don’t declare them! DLAM went to Morocco and tagged a holiday brand not no ad I think if MOD is going to lead the way with the ads then she’s doing a great job of it now and worn Disney

That was meant to be a ? They don’t declare them?

Mumofkids I don't know about their accounts, really my interest in this whole thing has been related the whole phenomenon of instamums and them 'hustling' us on the sly. That really pisses me off. I've deleted IG and used Google to check up the MP post as it came up here. I have already reported various posts to the ASA, I suggest others do. I really don't care if they have a big house or pay private school fees. I don't see how that's relevant, other than in the context of them not being relatable - which I think has been firmly established.

allergy it isn’t an unhealthy obsession to discuss some prime examples of something on a thread about that something! It would be if we did nothing except this all day everyday. I talk about loft conversions and good examples of them when I am discussing them with other people who are having a conversion done. No one calls this unhealthily obsessed. The ‘you seem really obsessed’ argument is like the ‘jealous haters’ one claiming an emotional, bitchy reaction in order to discredit any criticism. It is the flip side of the ‘women should support women!’ faux-feminism exploited by many of the instamums for commercial ends. There’s been plenty of more dispassionate discussion here and I for one as a non-MoD follower am not fixated on one blogger in particular. This is a general issue among many bloggers and continually claiming it’s a mean-spirited attack on one in particular just doesn’t fly.

Also as an aside, they may have not been able to get state school places. Kent, like everywhere else is oversubscribed, especially in year 6, which the eldest child is presumably in.

But I am with you in that no personal attacks is the way to go.