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Note to Self

Should We Post Photos of Our Kids Online?

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A third of kids are online before they’re even born, thanks to sonogram images posted to Facebook. Is there a downside to all the kid photos we share?

This week, we revisit a conversation with Hillary Frank, host of the Longest Shortest Time. And we want to hear what you think - did your parents post photos of you? Do you post photos of your kids? Visit notetoselfradio.org/kidphotos to take our survey.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So I was wondering if it's right of me to just blindly post a pic after a pic of my three-year-olds

0:05.8

entire life all over social media.

0:08.7

Should I start deleting every pic until he's old enough to give consent?

0:12.3

Or is this just what it's like to grow up in a digital world?

0:15.3

Oh, that question.

0:20.1

Should I or should I post pictures of my kids?

0:23.4

Or if you're a kid listening, do you or don't you want your parent to post those pictures

0:28.5

of you?

0:29.7

Have your parents ever asked you what you think?

0:33.4

I'm a new Samarote and note to self.

0:36.3

Posting photos of kids or not posting them says a lot about a person's values and aspirations

0:43.1

and either choice is valid.

0:45.1

But we also need to start examining the repercussions.

0:51.0

At dad you heard at the beginning of the show was Judd Walkstein, a listener from Atlanta,

0:55.4

Georgia.

0:56.4

He sent in that question two years ago and yet finding the right answer hasn't gotten

1:02.3

much easier or less divisive.

1:05.0

So here's what we're going to do today.

1:06.4

First we're going to replay a conversation between me and my executive producer Jen Poin and

1:11.2

Hillary Frank, host of the parenting podcast The Longest Shortest Time, three moms who have

1:16.6

each made very different choices about posting their kids photos.

1:22.3

After that conversation though, we want to turn things over to you.

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