Internet Conundrum of the Day

Below is a photo of a girl that might be my daughter. But I’m not saying if it is or it isn’t.

Her face is obscured just like every dentist on any toothpaste advertisement on TV.

Do you consider the posting of this photo a breach of my daughter’s privacy or the act of an outrageously bad parent that doesn’t care about all those weirdos out there on the web?

She can’t be identified with 100% surety by anyone other than those who already know her very well. Either can I in fact – I don’t use my name as the author of this blog.

So even if you decry my actions in posting this photo as that of a madman waving a geranium at the moon, you would have to admit that it’s not as bad as if her face was showing or if my name was associated with this blog.

And who knows, it might not be my daughter. I’m not telling you. So if you feel that rage, just think you could be 100% wrong!

Given this, would you admit that the ‘safety’ and ‘privacy’ issues associated with posting photos of kids on social media is not quite as black and white as you’d like to think?

Already knowing the answer (Nooooooo!), I have decided to pen my four laws of the thermodynamics of internet-related parental anti-sublimation.

0. People fear most what they do not understand

1. Despite their fears people will be drawn to the internet like moths to the flame

2. Despising themselves for their weaknesses in this regards they will fly a token flag of resistance, being their totally irrational views with regards to children’s ‘privacy’ & ‘safety’

3. They will refuse to acknowledge that one cannot use logic to generate knowledge from a state of total ignorance