The first social media babies have grown up - and they're angry

Saturday Morning - A podcast by RNZ

Categories:

Earlier this week Ruby Franke, who shared parenting advice and the day to day lives of her six kids via a popular YouTube channel was charged with child abuse. It's an extreme example of the harm caused by parents using their kids for social media content. But it raises the question - is it ever ok to share your children's lives publicly? As the first wave of social media kids come of age they're forming a growing movement to protect others from having the intimate and often embarrassing moments of their young lives immortalised on the internet. Internet and social media commentator Kate Lindsay has written about the issue in an article for The Atlantic.