Can you unring that bell?
Adolescents prefer to control their own digital presence to preserve privacy and autonomy.
Photos can become fuel for bullies to use in the future.
Metadata attached to photos reveals personal information beyond the image itself.
Clean out your own photo albums on Facebook, delete posts on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
If any of your accounts are dominated by information about your child, delete the whole thing.
Put your memories on a hard drive or in a scrapbook.
Did you think for a tiny minute that you would make your mark as a mommy blogger?
However, a lot of our kids images on the internet originate from sources outside our own accounts.
OnFacebook, fill out a form to report a photo that violates your childs privacy.
If your child is 13-17 years old, they will have to file the report themselves.
On Instagram, you’re able to alsofill out a formto report an image of your child.
Instagram determines whether to act on your request depending on privacy laws and whether the photo violates community guidelines.
On TikTok, usethis formto report a privacy violation.
Finally, how do you identify and take down images of your child that exist elsewhere on the internet?
Unfortunately, you dont know what you dont know.
Start by finding out what any rando could dig up on Google.
Try variations of search terms including names, city, school, club, church, or social group.
This may turn up images that were posted on individual websites.
Withthis form, you might submit links to the images so they dont show up in search results.
Could there be other images out there that you never knew existed?
Or worse, altered images that show your childs face in scenarios that never actually happened?
Sure, its within the realm of possibility.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?
Still not satisfied that you have removed all images of your child from the internet and protected their privacy?
Let this hassle be your motivation to skip sharing images of your child in the first place.
