{"id":29552,"date":"2010-10-07T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=29552"},"modified":"2011-06-03T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:42:15","slug":"baby-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/baby-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to CNN.com<\/a>, “Thanks to the ubiquity of photo-sharing websites like Facebook, 82 percent of children in 10 Western countries have a digital footprint before the age of 2, according to a study by internet security firm AVG.” It’s no surprise that America led the pack, with 92 percent.<\/p>\n

Apparent concern around this figure was not over attracting pedophiles, but rather the kids’ credit ratings, due to information like middle name, birth date and mother’s maiden name often shared — and not always by the parents. “Obviously there’s a privacy issue,” said AVG spokeswoman Siobhan MacDermott, “if they’re applying for credit [later on] and having that information readily available for people who want to compromise their identities.” <\/p>\n

Absolutely, that’s an issue. Personally, I’m more concerned and curious about the effect of growing up in a fishbowl from day one. We know adults in particular are freaked out about privacy concerns, though often in contradictory ways, as Eric recently wrote about. And teens and pre-teens who have grown up with the internet and social networking are under social pressures the rest of us have never known, at a time in their lives when school social life and peer pressure often feel like they have a ‘do or die’ intensity — and tragically, sometimes do.<\/p>\n

So will these toddlers actually have an easier time of it as they grow, since they will have known nothing else? Or have we just sentenced our newest generations to exponentially tougher psychological and self-esteem issues, ripe for the picking by big pharma? Each wave of parents throughout history has unique challenges to navigate when it comes to child-rearing; in that sense, this is nothing new. Hopefully we’ll catch up to the cyber-privacy learning curve soon enough to provide these Facebook babies the tools they need as they enter a world we barely comprehend ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to CNN.com, “Thanks to the ubiquity of photo-sharing websites like Facebook, 82 percent of children in 10 Western countries have a digital footprint before the age of 2, according to a study by internet security firm AVG.” It’s no surprise that America led the pack, with 92 percent. Apparent concern around this figure was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}