Many social media platforms use virtually wide opened default settings on privacy.
Location - On
Sharing - Public
Parents give kids a device and as stated earlier, they are out of sight and out of mind. They can watch Netflix or bullshit on facebook in peace while the kids go and "play with their friends" online.
Not all parents do this, and as odd as it may seem to fellow "Boomers", we need to heap praise upon those who engage and interact with their children, establishing and maintaining bonds in tangible real world ways.
I've recently come to get to know one such family, and I was just doing exactly that yesterday while we discussed the article that is the subject of this thread.
They said they caught shit from family and friends for choosing to homeschool. Reasons cited were that they were isolating their kids from reality and not allowing them to build real social bonds with the diverse community.
I reassured them that what they're doing is proper and fitting, and that what they are doing is they are building a foundation of trust and respect between them and their kids. A foundation that strengthens those children against the challenges of "the real world" as they come of age.
Their bond is their refuge.
They are active in the community in the right ways, the healthy ways.
Sports, 4H, etc.
They have friends that they know and interact with in person, with actual words and expressions, not emojis and Snapchat filters.
The way us Boomers did it.
I Know Where Your Cat Lives is a data experiment that visualizes a sample of 1 million public pics of cats on a world map, locating them by the latitude and longitude coordinates embedded in their metadata.
iknowwhereyourcatlives.com
Do you really know where my cat lives?
They tend to roam... Every photo on this site was created and uploaded with the locational metadata intact by the original owners. With an
estimated 7.8 meters accuracy, if you took a photo of your cat in your home you might find it near that location on the map, or you might not. Every cat we visualize could be accessed just as easily by searching popular photo sharing websites. So, no, we do not know where your cat lives, nor do we care.
What is the point of all this?
We set out on this adventure with a mission in mind: to point out the ease of access to data and photos on the web. We sought to showcase how readily available social media users’ information and snapshots are to the general public.