Instamums 4

[mammyoftwo]

Following on from Instamums 3.2

@Gobbolin how is a child going to be injured?! Stellar so their parents are exploiting them by putting photos of them
on insta but a parent signing their kid up to a modelling agency isn't? Really!!

which can be found at:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3205822-instamums-3-2-0?watched=1&msgid=76734312#76734312

Thanks for new thread

Ta mummyoftwo.

Thanks for the thread @mammyoftwo

@Sofialemon not everyone on who uses social media is benign. I think you'd have to be a bit a daft (and that's being polite) if you can't imagine anything going wrong when you have little kids and you post intimate details of your lives on the internet to a huge number of followers.

Sofia I'm not sure whether you're missing the point or deliberately missing the poing.......

It's not a nice thing to consider but the reality is.......random stranger sees naked children in the bath. Random stranger has access to their home address. Random stranger is shown online what school they go to and local activities they go to. Random stranger turns up to see them in person......

Sadly this is not imagined, this happens in real life. Too many professionals have worked with victims and survivors of stalking and assault.

Again, I directly ask KitKat or any fellow instamums to join this discussion. The child protection concerns are valid.

Continuing, following with interest....I see intamums ( and dad's!) have either been unusually quiet over last few days or are still blatantly ignoring the ASA guidelines....I'm unfollowing many of them as they obviously don't think guidelines don't apply to them

@mammyoftwo I doubt there'll be an answer. The ones who have listened to these threads have either taken down photos of their kids or limited the amount they show them.

The others blithely ignore, deflect and carry on regardless.

thedebrief.co.uk/news/real-life/influencer-meaning-marketing-deliciously-stella/

They really are reluctant to follow the rules. Is this because they perceive it may be detrimental to their image? Or perhaps affect their profit margin?

Mammyoftwo in that case no parent should ever post any pics of their children on any social media.

Awful things have happened to many children, and long before social media even existed. Having pics of your kids on social media is not a child protection issue, unless you're leaving them home alone or unsupervised elsewhere.

The smart people don't.

@Sofialemon I agree that it’s a parental choice. I would never post photos of my daughter on Instagram without making the account private and that’s my choice - even then, I would carefully consider what I do post. It does get a bit fuzzy though when accounts are monetised ie. are children effectively employed to take part in an advert? I have no idea - just curious.

Sofialemon You hold a very naive and blasse attitude to personal protection.

Exactly. I always had private accounts and photos limited. No reference to schools. The fave mistake is first day of school pic at front door with your number in sight. Horrors.

sofia that's why I don't post any pics of my dc on SM.

Oh god, honestly "the smart people don't". I use Facebook, as do many of my friends and acquaintances.

Only one person I know of (my friends sister) refuses to have her child's pic on Facebook. I don't think she's cleverer than the rest of us, I do however know she is an overly anxious person who worries unnecessarily and overthinks things.

I don't think her child is any safer than mine who have thousands of pics of them on Facebook, some even naked in the bath omg!!

Now that you have all seriously expressed concern about the children and their privacy, etc etc which is a VALID point.

What are you going to do about it? What can you actually do about it?

The schools must know these children are instafamous, why haven't the school reported it to the relevant authorities who can further investigate.

Have the school spoken to parents about internet safety? No?!

People just keep going on and on about the same stuff.

Boring now.

Tell me what can you lot actually do about what these instagrammers do with their children? Nothing!

I haven’t contributed to these threads before because my feelings towards Insta influencers is deeply conflicted.

I follow many of the accounts mentioned. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes inspiring, sometimes blatantly blagging, sometimes I feel jealous, sometimes I feel critical of their decisions to monetise their private family lives but other times I think I’d prefer advertising money is spent through funny, thoughtful women promoting their lives than through tv commercials where the profits benefit large companies and shareholders.

So basically for every positive I see in the influencer movement, I also see a negative. And vice versa.

Oh no, I've put pics of my girls' first day of the new school year with the door number in the pic! Every year, for years, I am so lucky they have never been abducted!

Now that you have all seriously expressed concern about the children and their privacy, etc etc which is a VALID point

Agree, this is the only valid point. What can the self appointed watchers of the IG'ers do about it though?

My daughters school post pics of kids at the school every day on their Twitter account. I suppose this is a child protection issue as well?

@Sofialemon I have to admit, my sister posted photos of my daughter on Instagram and she has quite a few random followers. That really annoyed me. I feel like it’s my daughter’s choice - not hers - to make photos public.

Such short sightedness. You seem to have no concerns for what the future may bring. Its only sensible to protect your personal information. Its a really valuable thing.