Posting videos of children crying and people having meltdowns a poor idea

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In 2020, Ms Amanda Morgan found photos of her then six-month-old daughter taken from her Facebook and Instagram pages and shared on websites featuring paedophile content. Lurking on the Internet are all kinds of danger – voyeurs, predators and other unsavoury characters.

With social media, we live a large part of our lives in a public space. We can easily sleepwalk into oversharing, without realising the content we share can compromise the privacy of others, beyond our immediate family circle.

social media provides people with “a shroud of anonymity, lowering the barrier to initiate or participate in public shaming”, and “magnifies the reach of such public-shaming acts to a wider audience”.

When dealing with stress, pain and heartbreak, time is needed for wounds to heal. Turning the experience into social media fodder can interrupt this crucial healing process.

Our camera “eats” before us as we snap photos of our lunch before digging into it, and our holidays are spent chasing Instagrammable moments.

A global study by international think-tank DQ Institute in 2018 showed that 85 per cent of Singapore children aged eight to 12 are active on social media.

For qns on social media and privacy

Qn: To what extent has social media devalued true friendship in your society? (Cam. 2021)