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I agree with your take, and its worth a discussion with your wife. In my view, your kids should get to decide for themselves how much of their lives should be public and online, and they aren’t old enough to decide now. Anything posted online is permanent.
Additionally, social media posting is just toxic for everyone involved. Don’t contribute to that.
None. My family’s business is not the worlds let alone other family members.
We use TinyBeans to share the daily photo journal type stuff because we have have family spread across county and want them to be connected but we keep our personal social accounts pretty locked down and don’t have any pictures of kids that can be viewed publicly.
Family who care….grand parents, cousins and some close get updates through on WhatsApp groups….others frankly don’t care
I keep an Instagram account for them. It’s private and gives me a place to opine on my love for them, lessons, and interactions. It’s solely for the case that I get hit by a bus or drop dead, then they’ll have my legacy there. As a kid who lost his dad at a young age, I wish I had that.
We document but do not share. We have a zero posting policy outside of immediate family
Rising Star
Kids can’t give consent to what you post. Your kids as teens won’t want their baby pics up there, so do your future self a favour and save the argument that you’re gonna have with your 16 year old when they realize their friends can easily find their old bathtime pics
If your child is extremely cute, funny or talented and can monetize it, sure why not. Baked in college fund and savings. I’d always tell them it’s acting for fun so they don’t think it’s real life.
Share nothing on social media…l
None
Not a single bit. Get annoyed when my mother posts a family pic on Facebook- but as long as it isn’t frequent, embarrassing or intrusive let it slide, but my wife and I don’t post anything.
We text photos to family members. Otherwise my wife is not on social media and I post occasionally, mainly just like birthdays or family trips. All accounts are private so, only friends and family see the posts.
All accounts are set to private, but we only occasionally share posts with kids. When they were babies, it was a bit more frequent but now that they are older, we ask for consent to post first.