@alice Fuck that. If I ever get in the position of having kids, their photos or videos or whatever are staying private and not going anywhere near the web or a public stage in general, at least not until after they turn 18 and can make that decision for themselves.

Like, that stuff is supposed to be theirs and theirs alone to look back on, not for the public at large to gawk at or worse. Now, anything that notional kid posts for themselves after they turn 18 is completely their business, but nothing of them should ever go on a public stage while they're still a minor, there's a very, very good reason why release forms exist for class pictures and such at your kids' school, guys, you really should be using the same reasoning that professional shoots use for release forms, for your family pics.....

Also, people say kids' privacy is destroyed by being featured on social media, but I'd argue that erosion goes back to when AFV launched, as the whole premise of AFV is to basically send your family videos in to be laughed at on national TV, which I can't imagine how humiliating that would've been for a kid growing up when their classmates would've inevitably seen them on AFV and made fun of them. Social media amplifies that premise by several orders of magnitude.

Like, kids' privacy has been getting eroded by their most humiliating moments getting featured on a public stage and laughed at en masse for 36 years (AFV launched in '89), that's really fucked up when you think about it. I'm probably the only one tracing the roots of the erosion of kids' privacy back that far, and this is probably an extreme take to a lot of people, but just think about it for a minute; Kids getting paraded on social media is a huge problem, right? AFV is the analog-era precursor to that.