Poll: This is why i dislike social media

Is it ok to take the photo and share it?

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Tefal said:
Ao essentially you're going to make sure theyre completley devoid of any learning of being online till its the crushing pressures of highschool where they can learn all those lessons in the most embarrassing way possible.
Cool.
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That's quite a bold statement. I am quite sure I will be able to educate my kids about the online world without me plastering their pictures all over FB from birth.

How you come to the conclusion that by me not doing the above they will be devoid of learning I do not know?
 
tintin82 said:
That's quite a bold statement. I am quite sure I will be able to educate my kids about the online world without me plastering their pictures all over FB from birth.

How you come to the conclusion that by me not doing the above they will be devoid of learning I do not know?
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Only way theyre having a clean slate is if theyre not on any of these sites til 16 - 18.
 
I put photos of my kids on Facebook. Activity days, birthdays, when they do random weird things. I live some distance from my greater family and it's nice they get to see them grow up. I don't see what the big deal is. If I lived round the corner from them, I wouldn't bother.
 
tintin82 said:
Have a think about that one. What gives you the right to share an image of another person into the public domain without their understanding and consent?

You wouldn't post pictures of an adult without their consent (isn't that what that face tag thing is?) so why a child?

This is obviously my personal opinion. I feel quite strongly about this as some parents appear to broadcast their children's life online without their consent. Kids today are the first generation that have the potential to have their entire lives documented online, this may have ramifications for their future in ways that are only starting to become the norm (online profiling by employers).
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Over dramatic or what.

By the time these kids go from age 4 to 21, chances are there will be hundreds of photos attributed to their name. As in, lots of kids with the same name.

Let me just ask my 9 month old daughter if I can share a pic of her smiling at the family pet cat....she said what sounds like,"Ehhhhh" *smile* *laugh*

This all seems to stop or slow down when children reach the age of 10, because they begin to mark their own journeys.

And to answer the question....I've put up pics of strangers I've come across doing weird things in the street. If your in public you have no right to absolute anonymity.
 
VincentHanna said:
Well that's just rubbish.

Why does everything get blamed on feminists and SJW's? It's clearly a societal issue.
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I should have said Tumblr SJWs and Feminists.

Vocal minority of dimwits who should get jobs and stop blaming the world for being fat or the white Knights so desperate to get laid they'll literally agree to get riled up about anything.
 
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NoobCannon said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-36322279

In my opinion, this photo should have never been taken let alone posted on the internet.

According to the link the child was increadibly ill with salmonela poisoning so the father was keeping him in the shower to try and bring his temperature down and to easily remove sick etc. Yet the mother found time instead of worrying how potentially ill her child was decided to take a picture of the moment and post it on social media

My partner did a similar thing when my child was in hospital and id beeen sent home for the night (only one over night visitor) she took a pic of my very ill daughter and posted it on facebook. Needles to say this almost ended our relationship and the picture was removed.

Anyone actually think this is ok?
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You worry too much. It's just a picture, if you don't like it don't look at it.

Move on please......
 
People sharing their feelings of outrage and disgust in public via words about a woman sharing her feelings of love and respect in public via a photo.

She's showing how deep a father's love is for his child is, that a parent should sacrifice comfort and dignity for a sick child while those who are up in arms are sharing how small minded and lacking in anything more important, and that actually impacts them, in their life.
 
My first instinct when I read your post was that I would agree with it. I thought it was going to be a picture of bullying or the child looking extremely ill and people either laughing at it or attacking the parents unfairly.

But the photo is fine and the mother apparently took the photo because she was so proud of her husband and how he was caring for their child. And that IS something to be proud of.

The photo is fine. Evil to those who think evil of it, is the phrase is it not?
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Arthur Hucksake said:
SJWs, Feminists etc
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Say what? Feminist right here who has no problem with it. This has nothing to do with feminism. If anything, the fact that fewer people would have a problem with the image if it were the mother not the father, shows a mild bias against men! Feminism is nowhere in this article or reaction.
 
tintin82 said:
Please excuse me if this point has been raised already, I have just had a quick skim through the thread and most seem to be along the lines of share share.

For me as a father I find this photo rather disturbing for the following two reasons.

1) As a parent, when my child is ill the absolute last thing on my mind is to take a photo.

But lets say you are a keen photographer and want to 'capture the beauty of the moment' yada yada... OK fine, your child, your camera on you go.

This brings us two my second issue

2) Was the child consulted before the photo was shared with the world on this scale? And did he give his approval?

I think not. Would you like someone to snap a photo of you at your most vulnerable and share it with the world without your consent? Do the parents of this child post images of themselves ill?

In a world were everything seems to be 'shared' 'liked' this photo is not surprising, but for me the parents lack of regard for their child privacy is.
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Well said. Its a gross invasion of privacy. She was so worried she ran for her camera to "capture the moment" lol....**** poor mother imho.

But then a lot of so-called professional photographers actually do this (invade or exploit a private or tragic circumstance) ...in order to "capture the beauty of the moment".... yeah of course yadda yada ya so did the paparazzi trying to get a picture of Princess Diana dying...

Its sad indictment of the state of society. No perspective and no concept of the rights of the other human being they are exploiting.

/mini rant :D
 
wesimmo said:
People sharing their feelings of outrage and disgust in public via words about a woman sharing her feelings of love and respect in public via a photo.

She's showing how deep a father's love is for his child is, that a parent should sacrifice comfort and dignity for a sick child while those who are up in arms are sharing how small minded and lacking in anything more important, and that actually impacts them, in their life.
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BS

If i was that father trying to comfort my child and help them through a very traumatic illness i would be absolutely livid with the mother for what she did.

HER: How can i help honey?
HIM: Ohh you can photograph this intensely private and traumatic moment and share it with thousands of complete strangers. /sarcasm

She's exploiting both him and her child...for HER own purposes (whether its to say ohh look everyone at this amazing Dad blah blah) its quite sad really. If my child was very sick the very last thing i would be thinking of is taking a photo of them.

I wonder if the child had actually died would she still have shared the photo on facebook. Somehow my spidey senses tell me ...not a chance.
 
Who knows their true motivations but I hope it's not glory hunting. Certainly a lot different to how we were brought up. Can't say I would do it myself.
 
This thread is a brilliant example of why this photo has gotten to exposure it's got.

If it's just "a photo" then it wouldn't be on our radar, it is precisely those people who has a problem with it, brings it up for debate, that's why it got the exposure.

So in a way, the people who disagrees with it perpetuates the momentum.

The mother, a photographer, merely took a photo and put it online. From her perspective it is perfectly normal, clearly some people disagrees. It doesn't make her wrong however, it only means a difference of opinion. Nothing more.
 
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