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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to do this and have stopped. I generally will ask myself before posting, "Who is the audience for this/why am I posting this?"

Sometimes there is a good reason. But often it is unnecessary and potential hurtful to people who were not included in the gathering for whatever reason.

I used to be a part of a group of women (grew apart due to geography) where posts like this caused so much drama over who was or wasn't included, why so and so posts about outings with Larla but not Linda, etc. And as a PP said, it becomes a circle jerk or likes or reposts. It was toxic and not behavior that 30-40 something women should be modeling for their own kids. [/quote]

This is a mature and thoughtful approach. I also used to do this and had a similar experience -- was in a social group connected to my job and the social media posts became very hurtful/exclusionary/political because people became competitive about how was socializing with people in positions of authority at work. It was very toxic.

My kid isn't on social media yet and may never be (things keep changing in terms of what technology kids are interested in using) but I agree we have a responsibility to our kids to teach them how to use these resources maturely and kindly. It is embarrassing to me the way I used to behave on social media, well into my 30s, but it was a new technology and just didn't understand what was wrong with what I was doing at the time. Now I do. Hopefully my daughter can benefit from my hard-earned wisdom and do better.[/quote]

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