Many parents set rules for their children's online activity, such as limiting the amount of time they can spend online. But some children in the US and UK are saying that they'd like to make rules for parents, too. Their main complaint is that their parents share too many photos of them online.
In a 2016 study, it was found that parents in the US share an average of 116 photos of their kids after they are born. Most were taken before the child turned 8 years old. Many of the photos showed kids in embarrassing situations, like having food all over their faces, Quartz reported.
Parents do like to share their child's progress as he or she grows up. But their kids don't like it as much. In a survey of UK children between the ages of 12 and 16, 70 percent said they felt their parents didn't respect their online privacy (隐私), according to Digital Parenting magazine.
In addition, many kids said that other students at school sometimes pick on (捉弄) them after their parents post photos online, CBS News noted. In one case, a girl was bullied (欺负) by boys at school after they found her mom's blog, which had many family photos.
"Each time a photo or video is uploaded, it creates a digital footprint of a child, which can follow them into adult life," a spokeswoman for a leading children's charity in the UK said. "It's always important to ask children for their permission before posting photos or videos of them."
