A disturbing campaign against sharenting about publishing information about their children, touches deep fibers and invites parents to “think” before exposing minors on networks because it can be dangerous.
We know the baby from a friend, we know when the first tooth fell outwhen he learned to crawl, to take his first steps, to which kindergarten goes or how he celebrated his fifth birthday, and that has a name: sharenting
What is the sharenting?
The concept of sharentingcomes from two English words, share and parenting, explains the ANAR foundationand refers to the fact that Adults frequently share photos of their children or daughters with personal information on social networks or on the Internet in general.
For example, data about your son or daughter’s daily life, their hobbies, their interests, the school where they study, the area in which they live, their birthday, among others.
Sharing a photo or comment occasionally is not considered sharenting.
Disturbing Irish campaign against sharenting VIDEO
And precisely to fight against this practice that can put minors at risk, in Ireland the Irish Data Protection Commission warns the population of dangers of “sharenting”through a campaign developed together with the creative agency Core.
In the video, you can see a girl walking with her parents in a shopping plaza, but during the journey, several strangers They greet her by name: Éabha hansomeone congratulates her on her birthday, another person wishes her luck in her next game, to the astonishment of her parents, another person wishes that her father would be punctual when picking her up.
It is clear that Éabha’s parents have shared a lot of personal information about their daughter with the world: their name, age, date of birth, photos of your friends, the name and the location of his football club, his time training and even the fact that her father doesn’t always arrive on time to pick her up. T
Las images what generate concern and distrust They are eloquent: they give the impression that nothing in the girl’s life is private and expose the danger of the increasingly common practice of parents of frequently sharing information, photos and videos of their children on social networks and digital platforms.
And it shows that it is very easy for those recordings to end up in the wrong hands for misuse.
Ireland’s ‘Think Before You Post’ awareness campaign, designed to show the dangers of sharing too much information online. pic.twitter.com/4PpPTRJXpz
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The advertisement is addressed to tutors under the motto “Pause before you post” (Think before you post), and strikes chords that encourage us to consider the fingerprint ―los traces or that a person generates in internet when browsing, searching, sharing, or giving “I like”― that they are leaving the minors.
The effects of sharenting
The practice of sharenting can have negative effects in different areas of a boy or girl’s life, since it can generate bullying (bullying) in your school or community, or cyberacosothat is, the boy or girl is the object of ridicule through the networks, when they begin to use them, from other people who have seen their images.
You may also be a victim of groomingwhich refers to the sexual harassment of a person to a girl, boy or adolescent, through the Internet.
A person whose images have been shared on the Internet may suffer data theft or identity theftand the information can even be used to hack passwords when children grow upwhen parents share the child’s birthday.