I read an article produced by a mother about parents exposing their children on social network sites like Facebook. The mom talks about how her friends have uploaded tons of pictures and videos of their daughter. The parents don't know that they are setting their child up for a very hard time when she hits middle school, high school, and even college. When someone is tagged in a picture on one of these sites they can be easily searched for and found by anyone. Kids will find embarrassing pictures of this girl in the tub, and they will use these pictures to give her a hard time. Now not all kids will have the internet intelligence or the lack of remorse to give a someone a hard time about baby pictures, but this girls parents will be the ones to blame for her getting bullied if it occurs.
         Parents should be very conscious of the pictures they post of their kids on social network sites. It is not their call to put those on a network that can be accessed by anyone. Instead parents should let their kids discover the online world by themselves. I'm not saying that parents shouldn't monitor their kids with their online usage, but they should let them decide when to get on Facebook, twitter, and other networks like this. Kids should not be forced to live with pictures of themselves online when they weren't old enough to even know what the word online meant. I know that I was one of the last people in my grade to be on Facebook and I still have  yet to make a twitter account because the fact is that not everyone cares or wants to be on these sites. It is a person's right to have the free will on whether or not they should be involved in social networking and if the parents make that decision before their  child can even speak they have already taken away possible mistakes and lessons a kids needs to learn in order to grow into a responsible and respectable adult.