One of the (many) reasons I quit FaceBook was while I was trying to raise my kids to be humans, there were a lot of shallow people post-boasting about the perfection of their lives. I noticed the kids were acting performatively for their parents’ camera attention.

One of my old college dorm mates had a kid last year and she literally posts full on naked pictures of her daughter on Facebook. They’re taken from behind, but it’s pretty appalling. I mean for Halloween, she shared a picture of a pumpkin painted onto her daughter’s butt. It’s enough to make me want to burn social…

Even though L&O: SVU has turned into The Preachy Adventures of St. Benson, she managed to fire off a good line a couple seasons ago that went something like “predators don’t hunt at random, they hunt where they’re trusted.”

Because people with delusions of “internet celebrity” use their children as marketing tools and lure for followers. I have unfollowed so many people lately - most of whom I started following as fitness accounts when they were pregnant at the same time as me. The things these people post of their now toddlers are…

Yeah, this just reminded me that when I worked in a prison families could not send photos of children in a swimming pool or bathtub or anything similar to that because of the way some offenders sexualized those images. Now this is a reminder fucking predators are everywhere. 

3. Would I want this image of my child viewed and downloaded by predators on the Dark Web?

Man, I had to unfollow this one classmate from high school, because she literally posts on Insta everyday without fail, and it got worse once her son was born. I get wanting to share a pic here and there— it’s a good way to for family far away to see how your kid is growing and looking at life— but I already feel so…

Yeah. Never mind worrying that your child’s photos will be accidentally seen by some mysterious stranger with bad intentions, the predators you should be wary of are within your regular group of followers.

Another wild idea: Don’t post photos of your minor children publicly. Creeps upon creeps, not to mention catfish will happily “adopt” those photos as their own.  Don’t do that to your kid, naked or not.  

Say it again for the people in the motherfucking back

Not for nothing, but as a parent you’re supposed to be caring for, nurturing and protecting your children… not using them as props on social media to feed your own ego. Stop this.

Wonder if in the next 10+ years or so we’re going to start seeing cases about the rights of your image as a child. How many kids growing up now are going to have to deal with their entire childhood being publicly visible online due to parents’ oversharing? What if they don’t want all of that stuff out there once they…

i think about how mildly horrified I am that my mother took a couple of adorable film photos of me as a baby in the buff 30+ years ago and think “i would seriously never want those posted to social media, and if they were, i would want to be the person to post them, as an adult.” i think our children deserve the same…

The idea that sexual predators are ‘other’ is a myth that has to die. They are parents and friends and family who often have active social lives and for most intents and purposes are indistinguishable from me and you. You only find out when it’s too late.

If you get drunk so seldom that you still need to be told how to handle a hangover, maybe take it easy tonight and leave the heavy lifting to us professionals. 

This also works for parenting.

Look, bowel health is srs bsns and you don’t want to get a polyp or cancer or some shit like that in twenty years because you weren’t concerned about your fecal situation today.

Entirely the drive thru lady’s own fault.

Legit out loud chuckle from this one...haha.

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