Don’t read this, as it may apply to you and make you upset or mad. For everyone who posted Christmas Day pictures of your children in PJ’s opening presents. What were you thinking? You do no know that privacy is a huge issue on the internet? You just told, the Russian hackers, the Chinese hackers, the NSA, that 300 pound guy Trump says is hacking the internet from his bedroom, and anybody else with data mining tools, all kinds of very useful information, about you, your spouse, your kids, and grandma if she was there. You also gave data miners, and big business all kinds of information that they can use as well. You told them in that picture what Santa bought for those kids, and if the picture was clear enough, or could be made clear enough what models you spent money on. With facial recognition software they can tell who you were with. Of course maybe you tagged them, so they don’t have to bother. You also told any neighborhood burglars about your child’s neat toys, and or about your new expensive toys. All the better to target you. If someone asked you in a survey to provide all that information you would say “F… You!” but you just gave it all away.
For parents of teenagers, you told the mean girls and school, and those jerk boys, what your son or daughter got for the Holiday. You also posted for those bullies pictures of your teenagers in their pajamas. Now those mean girls and jerk boys aren’t the only problem. Now again, what were you thinking, posting pictures of your kids in their pajamas. I don’t think so, but maybe some perverted internet pedophile troll thinks your preteen or teenage son or daughter looks good in those pjs. You do know that people buy and sell those pictures and then hunt down particularly “cute” kids. Really? Really, they are sick and disgusting people, but they are out there.
Lastly, pictures on the internet live forever. I know my parents took embarrassing pictures of me as a child opening presents. They live, however, in actual photo albums not on the internet. Plus at this point in my adult life, if one of my siblings posts those pictures, I don’t need to worry about a future employer wanting to see those pictures. However, when your child applies for jobs in the future, or college, then a good data miner will be able to pull them up.
Now maybe you think, hey facial recognition software isn’t that good. It’s getting there, but even if it isn’t right now, it will be 5 years from now, and those pictures will still be on Facebook, popping up in your year in review. So your an adult, you can give away any information you want about yourself. Your a parent, you can post pictures of your kids. However, in the future, they may totally wish you had not posted that picture. That may even be next week when they are back in school.
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