[Hexigonz]

I posted a short clip of my son dancing on Tik tok. It went viral very unexpectedly (I don’t make content about my personal life). With over 1 million views, I was riding high on that dopamine hit. However, someone reached out to me about the topic of not only my son’s privacy (he was only 2 at the time) and even worse, the fact that predators anywhere could now see the video.

I don’t care if the next one would have gotten 10 million views. I deleted that video and immediately made a follow up explaining the situation to the thousands of people that had followed me from that one video. Your child’s safety and right to future privacy should always be the forefront, and I’m ashamed to say I even slipped up one time. Don’t post that stuff. Send it to your family and move on.

[duxup]

>the fact that predators anywhere could now see the video

I've seen this worry expressed before, but I don't understand it.

Do you feel like your son is more likely to be a victim of a given predator that comes across the video because it went viral? Or some other consequence?

That doesn't seem likely at all considering sexual assault or similar IIRC is usually done by someone you know already.

[Hexigonz]

No, meaning that any predator can save a video of my child for viewing any time they like. I don’t mean they’ll be preyed on, I mean they’ll be viewed outside of the context I wanted my children viewed in. It’s not always “oh look at this cute kid! That’s adorable!” It can become much darker than that.