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Results: The First Social Media Generation Grows Up: Advocating for Laws to Protect Kids from Parental Oversharing

Published on 06/02/2024
By: Tellwut
2648
Technology
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/us/social-media-children-influencers-cec/index.html
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1.
Cam Barrett shares with her 240,000 followers on TikTok her views on exploitive "sharenting" or family vlogging culture. Barrett's childhood overlapped with the dawn of the social media era. She said her mother was an avid user of MySpace and Facebook, where she posted details about their lives and many of Barrett's private moments. Nothing about her life was off-limits, including her tantrums, her medical diagnoses and the fact that she's adopted. The term "sharenting" is a mashup of sharing and parenting — involving the publicizing of kids' personal information. Have you heard of the word sharenting?
Cam Barrett shares with her 240,000 followers on TikTok her views on exploitive
Yes
10%
266 votes
No
90%
2382 votes
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Barrett, a social media strategist who lives in Chicago, said her life was chronicled so much online that a man once sent her a private message on Facebook when she was 12. The message said he'd followed her home as she rode her bike and knew where she lived. The incident increased her anxiety and made her feel like strangers were watching her every move, she said. Do you think parents who over share online forget about the safety aspect of sharing so much?
Yes
70%
1844 votes
No
11%
294 votes
Undecided
19%
510 votes
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Chris McCarty, 19, a sophomore at the University of Washington, started the organization  Quit Clicking Kids to combat the monetizing of kids on social media. Some children of family vloggers are living in homes that feel like sets and with parents who double as their bosses, said McCarty. "I have spoken with some… child actors, and one of the things that really stood out is that when they were filming as child actors, there was a very clear distinction between when they were on and when they were off camera," they said. "When they were home at the end of the day, they knew they didn't have to perform anymore. But this new generation of children, there's no home to go to at the end of the day where they can disconnect, because the camera is inside the house. It's like living in a movie set all day, every day." McCarty said family vloggers should be regulated like the film industry, citing as an example a California law that mandates 15% of all child performers' earnings be set aside in an interest-earning trust. Do you think family vloggers need to be regulated?
Yes
58%
1523 votes
No
13%
347 votes
Undecided
29%
778 votes

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