The risks of sharing your child’s photos on the Net
Sharing a few photos on social media seems fairly harmless but once it's on the internet, you lose control over the narrative that will be formed around it. PHOTO | FOTOSEARCH
If you are an avid social media user, you will have noticed that many Kenyan parents — you could be one — post their children’s photos regularly, sometimes daily, on social networking platforms, especially Facebook. This (over) sharing photos, news, and videos of children on social media is known as sharenting.
Parents who are active users of social media and digital technology, share their children’s milestone’s online, from the ultrasound photos to their teenage children’s antics.
