The country where parents who expose their children on social media have to pay. They are required to save money until the child reaches adulthood
The first "digital" children, exposed from a young age by influencer parents in public posts, with or without financial gain, have reached adulthood.
Some of them are starting to demand the "right to be forgotten". That is, to be able to legally delete old photos and texts about them from their parents' accounts.
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Reporter: Have your mom or dad ever posted a photo or written something that you didn’t like?
Child: "Of course, many times. Photos. And I deleted them myself, from their accounts".
A subtle trap some parents fall into. They start with occasional posts about their relationship with their children, intended for the family, but gradually extend the circle of followers and the frequency of family updates as they receive more and more attention. Years later, some are harshly accused by their adult children of revealing "everything" from home on social media.
Young people whose childhood was a digital chronicle, in text and images, use the concept of "sharenting" to suggest a merging of sharing and parenting. That is, the constant intrusion of parents' posts into their intimate and private lives. This is why they are asking for a law that allows them to delete posts from when they were children, which put them in an undesirable light, once they become adults.
Ovidiu Pânișoară, education science specialist: "Vlogger parents want to sell the spectacular elements. Events such as 'I went to the park with my child' don't matter much. 'My child fell, fought with another child'. These can already become interesting for more people who follow that vlog. However, I notice one very funny detail. Most of those young people are conveying these messages in the digital world".
Some say that friends, teachers and classmates found out from Facebook, Instagram and Myspace embarrassing details about their health, their first menstruation and school failures. They are, therefore, asking for a legal framework where parents who make money from their children are required to deposit a percentage in an account in the child’s name.
Dragoș Stanca, digital media expert: "There are already visible cases in Romania of parents who are influencers and who turn the birth of a child into an event. The child is pre-sold to companies. Brand X for diapers, brand Y for children's clothes. They are not natural-born digitals, meaning they were not born with the Internet and phone in their pocket, and do not think about the consequences a post can have on their children’s future".
Several federal states across the Ocean are preparing laws to protect the financial interests of children in social media, similar to those for child actors.
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