Earlier this year, an Australian mum received an anonymous message from \u2018friends\u2019 urging her to stop sharing baby photos on Facebook.<\/p>\n
The letter was cowardly and cruel, of course, but haven\u2019t we all silently cursed a parent who shares every second of their little snowflake\u2019s lives?<\/p>\n
Here are a few things parents really ought to stop doing on Facebook.<\/p>\n
1. Tagging photos with nothing but hashtags<\/strong><\/p>\n #stop #bloody #doing #it #because #it\u2019s #bloody #annoying #and #doesn\u2019t #make #sense #anyway.<\/p>\n 2. Making every single status update about your children<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019re following you. That\u2019s you, the grown-up. With your grown-up posts about grown-up things.<\/p>\n 3. Anything where you say \u2018as a parent\u2026\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Every time somebody says \u2018well, speaking as a parent\u2026\u2019 a kitten dies.<\/p>\n 4. Humblebragging<\/strong><\/p>\n Poor Jamie bumped his head climbing into our new SUV.<\/p>\n Olivia fell asleep during her A Level Physics exam but then she is only three.<\/p>\n Tarquin\u2019s speech is so advanced I keep forgetting he\u2019s still a foetus.<\/p>\n 5. Comparing yourself to other parents<\/strong><\/p>\n For many people Facebook is a performance, so people will post a dolled-up duckface selfie rather than a more realistic pic taken at 5am with bits of food in their fringe.<\/p>\n The camera might not lie, but the choice of uploads usually does.<\/p>\n 6. Oversharing<\/strong><\/p>\n Beware the curse of living online: posting stuff that\u2019ll turn up in a Google search years from now. We\u2019re creating digital footprints for our children, and they might not like what we\u2019ve been sharing about them.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget about privacy controls too: the default sharing options might be too wide. Do you really want your photos shared with the entire internet?<\/p>\n 7. Mixing school run friends with old school friends<\/strong><\/p>\n What makes your best friends laugh might horrify the mums and dads you know from the school run.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re more Frankie Boyle than Fern Britton, limiting your posts\u2019 audience might prevent awkwardness at the next parents\u2019 evening.<\/p>\n 8. Trolling teachers<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the teaching union NASUWT, the number of teachers being abused online on social media has doubled in the last year \u2013 and while you might expect teenagers to be responsible, more than half of all incidents involved parents either acting alone or in cahoots with their kids. This is why we can\u2019t have nice things.<\/p>\n 9. Being Facebook friends with your kids<\/strong><\/p>\n Assuming they\u2019re old enough (under-13s aren\u2019t supposed to be on Facebook at all) what could be nicer than being Facebook friends with your children? The answer, of course, is \u2018not being Facebook friends with your children.\u2019<\/p>\n There\u2019s a reason you don\u2019t hang around with your children and their pals in the real world, and that reason applies online too.<\/p>\n 10. Complaining about what other parents post on Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s no point! They don\u2019t care! Source: Metro UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this year, an Australian mum received an anonymous message from \u2018friends\u2019 urging her to stop sharing baby photos on Facebook. The letter was cowardly and cruel, of course, but haven\u2019t we all silently cursed a parent who shares every second of their little snowflake\u2019s lives? Here are a few things parents really ought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":123241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-123240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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