This caught my eye mainly because it was just last night that I realized how annoying I found it when people's Facebook profile pics are replaced with photos of their ultrasound or their children. Call me a purist, but profile pics should generally have a picture of you, not someone else. I find it a bit off putting when I see someone's name and a photo of someone else, especially a child.
I'm actually a bit less annoyed by people who post silly or ironic photos of random things, but in those cases, it's usually because of concerns over privacy regarding photographs.
So is this an issue? Is it totally okay to post you children on Facebook, etc.? I'm constantly reminding people that posting to the Internet is like publishing something in a traditional sense. Once it's out there, you can't really get it back.
While I'm sure many of these mothers have set their privacy to "friends only," I'm sure many of them haven't. Many are probably just happy about sharing their "bundle of joy," even to go so far as to create a whole website for the world to see.
So.... dangerous or just annoying?
Will this go too far? How far is too far?
Am I just in a bad mood?
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Social media babies: More than a third of Canadian moms post sonograms online
By Gillian Shaw 7 Oct 2010 COMMENTS(0) Digital Life
And it's just a start on an indelible digital footprint that's followed up with almost 85 per cent of moms in Canada posting photos of their children online before they reach the age of two and eight per cent giving their babies a social networking profile.
The figures are among those in a survey commissioned by security software maker AVG that found Canadian moms are among the most likely in the world to share their kid's lives online.
And while privacy and security experts warn of over sharing, that doesn't worry Canadian moms who were the least concerned among those surveyed when asked about the amount of information available on their children that would still be online for years to come.
The survey of 2,200 mothers with children under age two in the EU5, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, found that 37 per cent of Canadian moms have posted sonograms of their babies - a figure that tops all other countries including our neighbors in the U.S. where 33 per cent post pre-natal images online. Globally the average is 23 per cent.
Social media starts early as well in Canada, with eight per cent of Canadian babies getting a social networking profile, compared to five per cent on average world wide.
Across all countries surveyed, the average age that a child gets an online presence is six months while by the age of two, 81 per cent have a digital footprint.
Sally Chow, daughter of Vancouver blogger and dot com entrepreneur John Chow had an online following before she was even born. Sally's web site, sallychow.com announced her imminent arrival with a sonogram image and the words: "Hello everyone! I'll be out in another 3 months!" [post continues....]
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Social media babies: More than a third of Canadian moms post sonograms online - Digital Life