Stop Sharenting: Celebrities who protect the privacy of their children
International Data Protection Day highlights, among other things, a widespread trend of today. Influencer mothers, who not only publicly show their children on networks, but often even blatantly monetize them within posts and vlogs. Which Czech celebrities have put a stop to this, and why you definitely won't see their children, and why?
It was a trend. On social networks, you will find a myriad of influencers showing off their children. Youtubers, whose business blatantly relies on sharing family life, are also plentiful. Actresses and singers also like to show off. When is it crossing the line? What happens when these publicly presented children grow up?
No one can erase the digital footprint, children will grow up one day and do they really want anyone to be able to find their first months and years of life with all their troubles and joys? Even a small child has the right to protect its strictly private shots. It's not just about the fact that classmates can laugh at him one day. Pictures of children sitting on the potty or vomit-covered children belong in the family album (or locked profile or locked family group). Not on a public, easily searchable profile.
Dangers of Sharenting
In a time when it is possible to publish any personal information online, the protection of children is key. According to the Finnish survey:
People with sexual interest in children most often use Instagram for searching materials, and 45% also use it to contact children.
Contacting their parents is also common, in extreme cases with requests for explicit photographs for a fee.
Easy way to pedophile forums
It is practically impossible to delete content, states on the evropavdatech.cz website, where photos from vacations with parents can end up on pedophile forums. You don't have to be a celebrity for this. The risk is not negligible, but not only because of it, it is good not to share children on social networks.
Notably, celebrities want to be very careful about keeping their children's privacy, whether for their own privacy or due to potential bullying or blackmailing. Often by sharing that your child has gone to school and the photo in front of school building, not only you are sharing his/her age and daily rhythm, but also the information about which specific school he/she is attending. By posting a birthday celebration or birth photos you're sharing the date of birth.
Celebrities in the role of mothers who stopped sharing their children
Some of the famous moms came to the decision not to show their children on social networks at all, or to cover their faces.
Children are not shown, or only very rarely by Martina Pártlová. Their children are not shared by Ewa Farna, Tereza Ramba, Marie Doležalová or Kristýna Leichtová. It also creates the impression, if you don't follow certain celebrities closely, that you don't even know whether they have a family or not. And this is another piece of privacy you afford yourself by this step.
Actress Veronika Arichteva has done a lot of enlightening in this area. She used to show her son Luka on social media, but then something happened that drastically changed her decision.
"So I started to reconsider every video and photo, whether it is necessary to post them here and rather sent them to grandmothers and in August a lady stopped me at the fair saying that she had recognized Luka first. Yay.
So we said that it is probably time,"
Arichteva wrote on social media.
At a time when children are already clearly recognizable, that according to the child a random woman at the fair and also the actress can recognize them, it's time to stop selfies with parents. Thus, the actress has really moved her son Luky's privacy into privacy.
When Lilia Khousnoutdinová gave birth to her last child, she started to censor her oldest son's face with hearts and graphic elements at the father's request. Today, she almost doesn't share children, even though her own enlightenment in childbirth and maternity topics would outright encourage more open sharing of her own parenthood.
But times are changing.
Protection of privacy and the safety of the children themselves then takes precedence over parent's presentation on social networks.
Fathers have their say
But for example, Agáta Hanychová is also among those who on father's request cannot present her daughter, whom she has with Jakub Prachař, on social networks, she also had a similar dispute with the father of her youngest daughter. On the contrary, she shares her son. Conversely, Veronika Kopřivová shows her older daughter, the younger one, who she has with another partner, but barely shows.
It is good that during the International Data Protection Day, which is commemorated on January 28, thought is given not only to the others, but also to the most vulnerable.
Before sharing any family-themed photos, therefore, ask yourself a few questions:
Would I like to be published in this way too?
Am I ridiculing my child with this?
Is this information that can easily be abused in the future?
Source: Instagram, author's article
