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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack! - Like everyone else in 2020, Grant Khanbalinov downloaded Tik Tok. He wasn't trying to learn dances or find a community- he wanted to learn the platform for his marketing job. To practice using the app, he made videos with his wife and kids. Then a video of his three-year-old daughter went viral, and Grant’s account blew up. He gained millions of followers and eventually made hundreds of thousands of dollars from his videos. It all felt like a dream, until…one night he realized there is a dark side to sharing his kids online. You can follow Grant on Tik Tok @heyelliamfamily. This week’s bonus episode on TTFA Premium is an interview with Sarah Adams (@mom.uncharted), an advocate for children’s privacy online, and Chris McCarty, a 19-year-old who is working to make policy changes to protect the children of influencers. Follow our other show, The Terrible Reading Club, to get an upcoming episode featuring Nora and friend of the pod Kate Kennedy, and their conversation around books that explore this idea of "sharenting". If you want to learn more about sharenting and putting kids on social media, check out these resources: Surgeon General report on social media’s effects on teens YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their adoption process. Until the last via The Cut A Child’s Tik Tok Stardom Opens Doors. Then A Gunman Arrives via New York Times. 18-year-old sues her parents for sharing childhood photos — Listener support makes our independent podcast possible. Our Substack is a great way to connect with us and other listeners (and get more Terrible in your inbox). Join us here. The episode transcript can be found here. — We’re lucky to only work with sponsors and brands we know and love. Using our links and codes saves you money and supports our independent production! BetterHelp: This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/ttfa to get started with 10% off your first month. Learn more at BetterHelp.com. SquareSpace: Go to Squarespace.com/TTFA and use offer code TTFA to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. LiquidIV: Get 20% off when you go to liquidiv.com and use code TTFA at checkout. You can find our full sponsor list here. — Find all our shows and our MERCH STORE at feelingsand.co. — Find TTFA on social: TTFA on Instagram | TTFA on Facebook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was in bed at one o'clock in the morning, and the stock
0:04.4	came to me like, what the hell am I doing?
0:08.0	Like, why am I making videos of my kids?
0:11.8	Why am I exposing my children on the internet?
0:16.8	How are you?
0:20.3	Most people answer that question with fine or good.
0:26.4	But obviously it's not always fine.
0:28.4	And it's usually not even that good.
0:32.5	This is a podcast that asks people to be honest about their pain.
0:37.5	To just be honest about how they really feel, about the hard parts of life.
0:45.3	And guess what?
0:47.6	It's complicated.
0:58.4	I am an online person, and I've been one for a long time.
1:04.4	I am of the generation where my first Facebook account was attached to my
1:10.3	college email.
1:12.2	I blogged my entire 20s.
1:14.7	Huge parts of my 20s were laid out.
1:18.5	The minutia of my life was laid out on Tumblr.
1:23.4	Whenever a new social media platform emerged,
1:27.4	emerged, because this has been true since the early 2000s,
1:31.2	I've made an account and just thrown myself in.
1:36.0	My audience was nobody, friends and family, and a handful of strangers.
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