Influencer ethics on Instagram

[MadameGrizzly]

Continuing the discussion on whether influencing on Instagram is an ethical business model, particularly around the disclosure of advertising and the over exposure of children.

AIBU to think it isn't a sustainable career unless the influencer is scrupulously ethical?

As in come on people do your own work

Yes Marsha. Can ASA not do a lunch with goody bag and clearly explain #AD and sort out that #gifted nonsense, and create some guidelines re use of children.

And I'm surprised IG hasn't taken the potty pic down.

As I remember it The Skanky Manky Titty ditty was MP in response to a troll who had told her to stop with the photos of her breastfeeding with her ‘skanky manky titties’.
I found it hilarious and it really enamoured me to her. MP is by far my favourite instamum.

Another day, another free lunch, another goody bag. Still not clear on what an influencer actually is though, Mother's Meetings...

I couldn’t convince MNHQ it was really me and they wouldn’t change it. I’d had the real version for years : (

I quite like that manky story.. readjusts slightly, perhaps that was the early days

CB is also at the mother's meeting. Taking another centrepiece

It's not stealing to take home the flower arrangements, it's 'using your hustle' or something...

Jam it was just an aside on my part. CB is pretty straight up. Although I'm surprised she joined the MN haterz.

Are these the same people that ran the inspirtaional mumboss event? I wonder how that went?

Actually I'm not surprised. No-one is going to go against MOFOD publicly. I wonder how MP sorted out her polite challenge, behind the scenes.

I saw the camera pan over that crowd of VERY well preened women at the lunch event today and compared that image in my mind with the mums waiting outside my DC's nursery at pickup yesterday evening. The two images could not be more different. No goody bags or free lunches for the mums with no make up, broken buggies, missing teeth, hair scraped into a topknot. Just the well used food donation box in reception, where they pick up their kids' dinner every night. (DC goes to a children's centre nursery in a v deprived area)

I don't want it to make my blood boil. But it does. Because they're the 'mama majority' in this country, not these freebie-grabbing opportunists.

Hi, so I am definitely not an expert on flexible working, you are absolutely right. I’ve (hopefully) never said I am. I am someone with an audience and in its simplest form, I’m relaying useful information to that audience, while acting as a PR mechanism for relevant bodies. Information from Timewise, EHRC, PTS, The Welsh Assembly and BEIS Whitehall, for example. All bodies with simply a smaller social media presence who want to speak to those following me. If anything, I am here in a loose journalistic capacity, I suppose (bearing in mind, as mentioned before, that journalistic career started in B2B realms on Horticulture Week - so not even the hard-nosed rags). I never advise anyone, I try to unite people and I try and respond to everyone on DM, as I hopefully do here and am sorry if someone wasn’t answered. As you are aware, I am not an official body, just an individual who paved a career out of words and communication. My Linked In profile is a line-up of B2B through to fluffier consumer lifestyle titles (Grazia, Time Out). In answer to the concerns over my content not aligning with my overall message, we trialled focusing solely on flexible working but engagement and followers dropped off. Ongoing, that would mean we would simply be preaching to the converted: Those who believe in flexible working or are interested in making changes. (And anyone questioning if that decision was also linked to our success as a ‘flogger’, yes, that, too played a part.) The majority of my followers want humour and light relief from the parental storm - and, perhaps, to know where my jumpsuit is from. And yes, as one poster rightly alluded to, I would prefer to not speak of the Skanky, Manky Titty any further.

That's sad, Jam. Our school is similar but having moved from yummy mummy land I can say the mums are much nicer and the kids seem happier, even though they are economically challenged. I don't aspire for my DCs to be grabby 'influencers'. I'm sure you don't.

@Eeebymum that is, indeed, correct. I countered a request to “put my skanky, manky titty away for the love of GOD womaan [sic]” with the fact that I can clean my mammaries. Just to clarify for anyone confused by earlier mentions.

Sorry MP, I had no idea that you were PR for flexible working. I thought it was your self funded campaign And I read your website.

FlyingBird my mum would say the same

Hi MP why did you decide to go with a different name for your campaign? Or did you start your campaign first then use it to deliver WF messages?

I genuinely believed that MP was solely behind Flex Appeal too. Sorry MP, I like the campaign and your involvement with it, but I feel slightly mis-sold.