Full disclosure: I am sure your baby is cute, but I am a parent to the cutest one-year-old on Earth. It is objective truth, a fact as plain as the midday sun, as real as the ocean. I don?t say this to brag exactly?I say it because it?s relevant to what we?re about to discuss. But we?ll come back to this in a minute.
While many people are thinking about making their exodus from Facebook and reconsidering how much of their data they share with the platform, I am having my own crisis over sharing pictures of my daughter across my social media. It?s not a new question by any means, but certainly one that takes on a new urgency in light of this data-harvesting scandal.

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Why you won?t see my kids' faces online Years before my daughter was born, I told myself that I wouldn?t post too many pictures of my future children on Facebook. ?That?s not for me,? I thought. I take my privacy seriously, and I am deliberate about what I do and don?t share across my social media profiles. So after her birth, I set myself an (incredibly arbitrary) deadline of the li?l bean?s second birthday: After that, I would stop posting pictures, and let her decide whether her image gets shared or not. Deciding whether and how much to post of a child is a personal choice for ev...