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Awww! That's so cute! (lemmings.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Alby003@lemmings.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 79 points 8 months ago

This is in no way a meme

[-] Uli@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

Everything is a meme.

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 15 points 8 months ago

The idea that this post is a meme is a meme. The idea that this post is not a meme is also a meme.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Your mom is a meme

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

Yes and so is yours

[-] joyjoy@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/[Popular Social Media] is a meme now I guess.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Do not post pictures of humans online who cannot consent to you doing so.

I'm so happy my parents never got into social media before my adulthood. There was some overlap there where they could have plastered images of me all over their facebook feeds without my understanding what that meant.

It's fucking revolting to me to see how normal some people seem to think it is for a parent to do that. IMO it should be straight up illegal and a violation of a child's right to privacy.

[-] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

My wife and I are being very careful about this with our son. I only ever post a monthly growth update and have made sure that the extended family isn't posting anything without permission.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sharing your life, and thereby sometimes the lifes of your children, with friends and family, only makes sense.

My concern is with parents who make no distinction between that, and posting something fully publicly. The latter means the post can go viral, or get screenshotted by a stranger and reposted as a meme somewhere with a huge audience. Or get dug up by anyone, even years later.

[-] BamBamToxico@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago

100%

Having your entire infancy and childhood just out there is going to be hell for some kids. Probably already is. Imagine your parents uploading a video of you doing something dumb, but cute, something they and family find adorable. The same video which a couple years later is the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to you when it goes through a viral wave of spreading throughout your local school.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

Completely agree. They regularly ask us at daycare if we consent to our child being in such and such photos that are gonna get posted who knows where and used for who knows what. I'm sure a lot of parents agree without a second thought.