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0 pointsvkb12y ago0 comments

I agree that lots of people do it, and they do it to foster an emotional reaction, and that sharing ultrasounds with people close to you is a very positive experience.

But I feel uneasy that we're encouraging this kind of privacy invasion from the very beginning, that leads to things like this[1]. The piece is, of course, reductio ad absurdum, but not completely out of the realm of the ordinary.

[1] http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mommy-bloggers-lament

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wmeredith12y ago

Uh, your source for "where this all leads" is satirical fiction.

vkbOP12y ago

I don't have a source, because most of the young kids whose lives have been shared without their consent have been having their lives shared for less than 10 years (Facebook started in 2004 and was rolled out to the general public in 2006 [1]), so we'll have to wait before academic studies start coming out on the topic of oversharing.

I am coming at the topic anecdotally (where sites like STFUParents[2] exist for people who are tired of overshare or people who have been fired or arrested for things they shared on social networks come into play.)

If anyone has links that either prove or disprove that sharing pictures of small children/sonograms is beneficial, I would be really interested in seeing them.

I just tend to skew towards guarded when it comes to sharing private medical information and pictures, especially of minors who don't have a say in whether you do or not.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/welcome-to-facebook-... [2]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/stfu-p...

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