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‘Momfluencers’ can be great to connect with online and help you feel like you’re not alone. However, there comes a point in an influencer’s journey when oversharing can be detrimental to one’s safety and privacy – especially to a child’s.

Exploiting their children on social media platforms, like TikTok and Instagram, for content can cause problems for the child later in life. These problems include mental health, and unawareness of parasocial relationships. In this podcast episode, my guest Sarah Adams and I, discuss why it is unsafe to post your children online and how to change your posting in a way that is protective for them. 

Sarah Adams is a married, mom of two who lives in Vancouver Canada. She started her TikTok during the summer of 2021 and discussed the state of “sharenting”, child exploitation and minor safety on social media.

In this episode we discuss:

• How social media often builds a false community of mothers. 
• Why sharing so much on social media can be detrimental and performative.
• The definition of exploitive and how it relates to content.
• Keeping your brand while taking children out of it.
• The messages that being on social media 24/7 sends to our children.
• Actionable steps that can be taken to stop the culture of ‘sharenting’.

Resources:

• Follow @mom.uncharted on TikTok
• Quit Clicking Kids – Stop the Monetization of Minors through Social Media
• Wait Until 8th
• TikTok Parents Are Taking Advantage of Their Kids. It Needs to Stop
• ‘Watchdog moms’ on TikTok are trying to keep minors safe
• The Rights And Privacy Of Children Are Due To Take Center Stage In Influencer Culture, And It’s About Time
• Instant Pot Risotto Recipe
• Instant Pot Chicken Burrito Bowl Recipe

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Questions:

1. What was the turning point for you in the pandemic when you started your account and the evolution of it to today?
2. Why do we share so much of our lives on social media?
3. What do you think about parents who tell their children that they aren’t doing social media content anymore but they still love doing it?
4. What would you consider to be exploitation of children on social media?
5. What’s your personal take on accounts where the kids are a part of their brand but not the main brand?
6. How does TikTok differ from Instagram?