Sharenting, Twelve Years Later — The Day Photos Posted at Birth Come Back to the Child Who Was in Them

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Parents who have shared their child's photos on social media and are now starting to wonder, as the child grows older, whether that was the right call
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~1,500 words
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Draft v1 (translated from Japanese v1)
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Children born in the early 2010s, when Facebook and Instagram were becoming mainstream, are now approaching adolescence. They are the first generation of children whose lives were documented on social media from birth — what some researchers have started calling "the first generation of shareanted children."

Research on how these young people experience their parents' posts has been accumulating only recently. What it shows is not easy reading for parents who have been posting.

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