WHY WE STOPPED SHARING OUR DAUGHTER ONLINE

When our daughter turned one, we stopped sharing her face online. Neither myself or my husband have a ton of followers but the idea of sharing her online started weighing on me, and here’s why we decided to stop.

1) To prevent over sharing- I read an article that said by the time a child turns 13, they will have 1,300 photos posted of them online - and most of the posting is done by parents. I don’t have much to say about this one, other than it made me uncomfortable.

2) To protect her privacy - does she even want her life to be posted online for (sometimes 10’s of thousands of) people to see? (I don’t have a ton of followers but Reels with her in it, tend to reach a surprising amount of people)! We won’t know until she’s much older, and I don’t want to make that decision for her.

3) To preserve her own narrative - I think we all know by now that people tend to post the happy stuff online, even my parents talk about my childhood in a romanticized way, and I don’t want our daughter to feel that I’m writing her story, or for others to feel like they know her story without her input. Instead, I write in a journal for her every month, which is where I share my thoughts with her and she’ll be able to read it one day when she’s older.

4) To focus on me- it’s MY social media account, not my daughter’s. I can talk about my experiences as a parent, but I don’t need so much focus on my daughter. There are of course times when she does something REALLY cute and my first thought is to share it, so I send it to Grandma and Grandpa, or one of her aunties ☺️

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