The Wall Street Journal recently ran an interesting piece entitled “The Downsides To Blogging About Your Kid,” in which Cybele Weisser discusses the possible pitfalls associated with Cyber Parenting. She runs a blog with public photos of her son. The internet allows friends and family to watch the child grow up.
Sometimes, though, the site also serves as an unfortunate reminder of the Internet’s not-so-innocent side. A few days ago, for instance, I noticed that some of the recent photos we’d posted had an extraordinary number of views, the result of people searching for keywords such as “bedtime, “nursing,” and “pj’s.”
Privacy concerns stemming from the public display of family photos include Cyber Stalking and balancing the protection of children online with wanting to share their development with loved ones. Other points of view brought up in the piece and in the comments include making a website private to keep predatory web surfers out of your digital family life and concerns that this album could prove embarrasing to the child as he matures.
What do you think? Are parenting blogs putting children at risk? Are we over exposing the intimate details about our lives? And when the kids grow up, will they ever live down their baby blog?
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