When did documenting your child’s life on YouTube become a trend? After watching the videos of a mother documenting the life of her child from birth( literally fresh out of the womb with amniotic fluid still present) to a year later, I began to get increasingly frustrated with the mother…Does she fully understand the implications of this documentary? And is she truly that simple minded and naive?
With this growing trend of family members posting these videos they should realize that ANYONE ANYWHERE can gain access to it. That factor alone should compel parents to be on the safe side and keep this videos in a box for the kids to watch later on in life. It just seems to me that they aren’t thinking this through thoroughly enough.
Exposing your children or child to the public and sharing intimate moments like a baby’s first word is something that belongs in the private sphere, not plastered all over YouTube.com. Precious moments shared between a parent an their child don’t need to be broadcasted for every Youtube browser around the globe to see; is nothing sacred anymore? ? Whatever happened to making an album or scrapbook of your child’s early years? Is that too outdated and old fashioned for this generation.
It all just seems way too twisted for my liking, why post such things on a public website? There’s no aeducational purpose, the videos are simply there floating around in cyberspace not serving any particular purpose. It’s such a waste, people just want the fifteen minutes of fame even if they have to live it vicariously through their children.
Although they’ll never know the full implications of these videos till the child ends up needing years of extensive therapy.
I’ve included the following YouTube video because it shows the exploitation of children by their own family members, sure it’s okay to video tape them doing silly or outrageous things, but don’t post something your child will be embarassed about 15 years down the road. It isn’t fair to them and you never know who’s watching, but then again perhaps that’s what drove this girls mother to post it. A stage mom hoping her child can get her big break on YouTube and be the next Hannah Montanna. Hey! If Soulja Boy can do it why not Arianna?
(toddler Arianna dancing to Beyonce’s Single Ladies)
