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🗓️ 3 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Anyone who has you on their Christmas card list is so paranoid. |
0:08.0 | I'm Angela Duckworth. |
0:09.6 | I'm Mike Mon. |
0:10.7 | And you're listening to No Stupid Questions. |
0:13.9 | Today on the show, what's wrong with proud parents sharing photos and stories of their children online. |
0:21.6 | Mom, you have ruined my life. Look at all the stuff that you've put out there about me. |
0:36.9 | Angela, we have a question that hits at the core of so many things we've talked about. |
0:43.3 | Says this, I hear a lot about parents oversharing information and photos of their children on social media these days. |
0:51.0 | I'm absolutely guilty of doing this and justify it because it's the way we stay in touch |
0:55.7 | with so many friends and family members near and far. With the start of a school year, we're warned |
1:01.2 | not to share the kid's school, location, teacher name on a first day banner, things like that. |
1:06.9 | What is the actual level of threat to a child when a parent overshares? And if a parent has overshared and wants to stop, is it even worth it? |
1:15.4 | Since so much information is out there that you can't get back, Mandy. |
1:20.0 | Oh my gosh. |
1:20.8 | I'm now thinking about the times that I have posted photos of Amanda and Lucy on Twitter, or whatever Twitter is called now X. |
1:32.0 | Is that what Mandy's talking about? |
1:33.6 | Did I just commit oversharing? |
1:36.2 | I'm not going to say that you're oversharing, but I think that's sort of what she's talking about, |
1:39.4 | is this idea that parents are posting children, right? |
1:42.3 | This sharing is parents of our children on |
1:46.2 | Instagram and TikTok and Facebook. Okay, so this term sharenting, is that what you just called it? |
1:52.4 | Yeah, so sorry. Fair, that is, I think, the term Mandy's referring to, where parents are sharing so |
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