A protest cause without a second thought

 

I find myself quite compassionate about 

kids and the way adults benefit from them. 

Over the last 5 years, while social media 

platforms have been growing and taking 

up so much time of our actual time, 

families, in particular, mothers are 

used to showing off their children on 

those platforms. Kids are promoting 

products and making content before 

they learn how to walk and talk. 

Mothers are right behind them to 

record every minute of their lives. 

Their digital footprint is bigger than 

their age and every single information is 

used in order to make one more video, 

one more piece of content for their 

followers. Their favorite foods, routines, 

silly and goofy moments are pieces 

of content, which lead to more 

collaborations, contracts and 

surprise- surprise money!

Needless to say, families take 

advantage of those deals, living quite 

luxurious lives, while kids don’t give 

their consent to anything. 

More than usual, those mothers and 

families support that they will give 

that money to their kids when 

they are officially adults. 

This phrase is a reasonable 

incentive for parents nowadays. 

Making money by doing the 

bare minimum; record your child 

and share personal moments 

and information. Hence, your kid will 

have a lot of money when he/she reaches 

18 years old and will be 

ready to do a quite affluent kick off..

However, every photo, video and piece of

data will be there, without their 

permission. We are the first generation 

of this non-boundary recording of kids, 

so psychological results aren’t 

available yet. I am very curious 

to watch how those kids will treat 

their parents when they realize

what happened all those years past. 

Most importantly, I am pretty curious 

to see, when they grow up,  

the psychological effects on them, 

while as children they were affecting 

other families around them.