Then there’s “sharenting.” Today, many children’s social media presence starts with a sonogram, posted, obviously, without consent. One study from Britain found that nearly 1,500 images of the average child had been placed online by their fifth birthday. Parents get a lot of gratification from telling kids’ stories online. “A conflict of interests exists as children might one day resent the disclosures made years earlier by their parents,” she noted. YouTube’s algorithms make it easy to discover ever-more-extreme content, and videos starring children are no exception.

Source: New York Times June 05, 2019 10:07 UTC