Parents showing off their children has long been popular on social media. It is found that videos with children receive three times as many views as other videos. Nine-year-old Ryan Kaji, star of the Ryan's World channel, topped Forbes' 2020 list of highest-paid YouTubers, making an estimated $29.5 million from his content and product lines.
Influencer parents and kids across a host of platforms can gain millions of online followers and land profitable sponsorships. Some family influencers get paid directly by brands for endorsing (代言) their products. And many more earn income by receiving ad revenues (收益).
A look at the comments section of almost any website proves the internet is often a very ugly place. And while the business of family social media is big and growing, there are as yet few meaningful safeguards for kids' privacy and safety, both from media companies like YouTube and from existing law.
Leah Plunkett, assistant dean for learning experience and technology at Harvard Law School said, "In many cases, the kids who wind up in ‘commercial sharenting' are too young to understand what's going on. If there is content going out about the children when they are three years old, they may be pretty uncomfortable with it when they are 13. And that content is not going to go away." Dr. Sarah Domoff, who directs the Family Health Lab at Central Michigan University also says parental oversharing may be damaging.
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A. The pursuit of internet fame and dollars may pose serious potential dangers to the kids on social media. B. Some sell their own branded products directly to viewers. C. They can't give any type of permission or know involvement. D. Some parents have already started to reconsider sharenting. E. All of the problems have experts on children's rights and development worried. F. "Sharenting" has now become an increasingly professionalized business. G. Embarrassing a child publicly can make children ashamed of the parents. |
