Should Children Ban Their parents from Social Media?
It might be taken for granted – but no previous generation of children will have had the experience of having their entire childhoods intensively and publicly documented in this way. But the very first people to have had some of their childhood pictures 21.__________ (post) online are not always happy about their formative years being preserved in digital world.
Parents may not realize it, but by posting photos and videos of their children online, they are creating an identity for their children 22._________ might not be welcomed. Lucy is a good example. She said she had asked her dad to de-tag her from “stuff that doesn’t necessarily represent 23._________ I am now. That’s not something I’d want to remember every time I log on to … It isn’t the best memories, which is the way you’d like to reveal 24.__________ on social media.”
Stories about online privacy are often about children and teenagers being warned of the dangers of publishing too much personal information online. But in this case it’s their parents who are in the spotlight. For some parents, 25._________ (safe) option is avoiding social media altogether.
Kasia Kurowska from Newcastle is expecting her first child in June and has agreed with her partner Lee to impose a blanket ban 26.____________ her children are old enough to make their own decisions about social media.
But she has two big concerns about her plan. Firstly, it will be difficult 27.___________ (impose). “When their auntie comes round and takes a picture, we’re going to have to be like paparazzi police, saying, please don’t put these on . And secondly, the child might dislike 28.__________ (not own) an online presence, especially if all of their friends do. But I 29.__________ (keep) a digital record of them. It just won’t have been shared on a platform 30.__________ the masses.”下载本文