[Barnevakten.no] Many parents eagerly publish pictures of their children in social media to share cherished moments with family and friends.
But where is really the limit for what and how much it’s okay to share?
Three-year sitting with spoon in hand, a cheeky look and grits over entire face. Yearling takes shaky their first steps across the living room floor. Seven years old turning wheel by wheel at the beach. These are great designs that perpetuates valuable family moments. On social media are amounts of such images, where proud parents sharing memories via Facebook, Instagram and other services. Many of the images are positive and unproblematic, but there are also a myriad of images that should not be shared with others. For instance, all subjects of shared online?
Children have a right to privacy
Senior Adviser Guro Skåltveit in Inspectorate says that the issue of publication of photos and film clips of children is mostly Children and young people’s privacy:
– the Convention states that all children are entitled to a private life. It involves showing children respect, listening to the children’s wishes and not share openly and uncritically on-line. Up to the age is 15 years, according to law the parents who would make the decision on what is published, but that does not mean one can take his freedom to publish as much as many do. When the children reach age 15 and may decide it’s okay that they can start with a clean slate, and that the network is not riddled with personal information about them. Then the young people themselves work with own privacy and determine whether they will be visible or not.
But it is far from easy to find the balance between what is okay and what is over the limit. In that connection the Inspectorate by the five basic rules to remember which constitute a useful basis for parental assessment.
1. Always ask your kids!
Seems kids it’s okay that you share an image?
– The first and most basic principle is that one must show children respect, underlines Skåltveit.
– We adults are allowed to say yes on behalf of our children, and when friends, school or leisure groups asking if it’s okay to post pictures we are quick to say yes. But that we should not do until we have asked children. Even when images are only to be shared with the next of kin in a closed group, one should ask the children first. Children give clear answers, and if they do not feel like others to see a picture they say from. In such situations, one should respect the answer and not argue against, for example, “But you’re so nice! ‘. A fast rule should be: Always ask the children, and always respect the answer.
2. Amount
How often and how many pictures of the kids publish?
– There is a big difference between blogs that publish hundreds of photos, and posting a few photos occasionally on Facebook. Show some sobriety, and feel free to ask yourself: What is best for the child? Why am I doing this?
Senior Adviser also emphasizes that there is a big difference in picture and film:
– Film is more revealing than the photo. It is better to share a picture of a summer glimpse than a long film of the children.
3. Type image
What kind of pictures to publish?
– Add, for example, rather like images of children where the pictures are taken from behind, moving or backlit, than close-ups of the face or scantily clad children. Naked children do not have anything on the Web to do, emphasizing Skåltveit.
– You should not publish pictures of children in situations that we adults would have considered private if it were ourselves. A child on a holiday trip is peeing in the bushes might be a fun image and a great summer memory, but it is also very revealing. Private situations should be allowed to be just that – private.
4. Channel Use
Who share the photos with?
– Share with the fewest possible. Pictures of the children are nice to look for family and close friends. But why share them with “the whole world”?
Skåltveit says that in her family they have created a closed group where only the truly immediate family, grandparents, aunts, uncles and children have access . Here is the threshold lower for what is published, and there are several pictures of a little more private. But even before images are shared here, the children are asked first.
5. Image Customization
It’s smart to take some technical measures to prevent potential abuse. When posting low-resolution images, or where it is used different filters, is reusability low, and it is less likely that someone publishes them elsewhere. There are plenty of examples of abuse and manipulation of pictures of scantily clad or naked children.
Parents must consider
Senior Adviser emphasizes that she does not mean that one should refrain from posting pictures of their children on-line. The point is that parents should make an assessment based on children’s age, type of image, and not least the children’s own opinions. She also believes that such an approach will teach your children to become more aware and clever netizens.
– Parents show in this way that there are rules for what’s okay to share. When children are old enough to use social media on their own will they have learned something important. One day dishes teens camera against mom in bikini on sunbed, and especially if you have shared indiscriminately when the kids were younger, it’s a little late to start learning them these rules then. (ANB)
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