Watching over children’s online footprints…
This morning a friend called me, and hesitatingly told me about a common’s friend’s FB profile where some snaps of her daughter were posted and did not seem appropriate.
I was shocked and immediately opened my FB to check the other friend’s profile. True, the posts were inappropriate for anyone and in this case the friend’s daughter is in Class 6 or 7 only. What left us wondering was how the others in the family who also might have seen the pictures not reported or turned a blind eye. The friend’s husband, her sisters are all on FB.
I call up this friend and ask her if she has seen what has been posted on her FB profile and my friend seemed so casual. She said she would check as she was attending some family function; there was no shock in her voice and her attitude was casual. If I had been at her place, I would have wasted no time in deleting these objectionable pictures.
Parents hand over their phones to their children and many of them don’t keep track of what the child is doing. The children, in this age of social media and peer influence post anything without understanding the implications. The parents are also clueless that these pictures could be used by anti social elements and cloned. Most parents don’t understand that their children could be led astray into unknown territories.
