How Do I Warn My Teen about The Dangers of Oversharing? - Digital parenting live [ep 13]
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- Hey guys, welcome to Digital Parenting Live
for Thursday, June 14th.
Now if you joined us last week,
you know that we had a big announcement.
Again, our goal here is to help you as parents
keep tech from harming your family.
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We're so excited for this,
but just as we do each week
here on Digital Parenting Live,
let's go ahead and jump into our viewer question.
So it says here, "My teen seems to share everything online."
"How do I help them understand that this
"can have consequences?"
Now, first of all, let me just say here,
one of the things that's different,
just from a generational perspective,
is this current generation that's growing up
in our households.
They're much more used to sharing information online.
A lot of things that we would just think, hey,
it's not something that you should share online,
for them in their generation,
this is common and this is normal.
But you're right,
it doesn't mean that it doesn't have consequences.
Let's look at a few things from the news just
in the past few months.
One example of this would be in June of last year,
Harvard actually announced that they were rescinding offers
to many incoming freshen because of things they had found
online on social media.
In addition, when we looked at the NFL draft,
there was a draft candidate, Josh Allen,
who actually had a lot of tweets uncovered that he made
when he was, I believe, 15 and 16 years old,
that actually affected him.
In addition to that, there have been numerous stories
given of where people in the job hunting process,
they actually didn't get a job because people found
things about them online and through social media
that they didn't think we're gonna be favorable
to their company.
And even just in the last week,
we had an NBA General Manager,
basically have to resign because of things
he had shared online through fake Twitter accounts
that weren't really tied to him.
Again, I think the important message
to give here and you can even share some
of these examples with your kids.
We'll put some links in the show notes so that you
can actually read some of these articles yourself,
but it's just to understand there
are real and lasting impacts.
But one thing I want parents to be able to communicate
to their kids is everything that you share online,
you know what, it's permanent.
Even if you share it on something like SnapChat
or Ask.fm or other things that supposedly are
what we call ephemeral, those things can have staying power,
either, sometimes these services can get hacked
and this information can be spread out or even things
like the AshleyMadison hack.
Things that were previously totally private can get exposed
and so that's one of the core truths we want all parents
to share with their kids is that anything you put online,
you need to assume that it is gonna be around forever.
And if there's something you wouldn't want other people
to know, you shouldn't share it online.
So you're right, yes, this absolutely has consequences.
But the other thing I wanna encourage parents
is understand that some of this
is just a generational difference.
So if your teen is sharing things online
that aren't harmful,
that wouldn't necessarily have any negative repercussions,
maybe give them a little bit
more flexibility than you have been,
if you've been giving them a hard time about this.
Again, educate them that if this is something
that they wouldn't want people finding out,
they shouldn't post it online.
So again, we hope this has been helpful.
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