Our digital footprint impacts each and every stage of our lives from birth to adulthood!

At birth, parents all too often indulge in sharenting: adults overshare photos, videos, and other sensitive information about their children, creating a digital footprint that will last far beyond infancy—forever, in fact. Sharenting can have unintended negative consequences down the line, potentially impacting a child’s social life, mental health, future endeavors, and even safety.

Adolescents: Sadly, predators are increasingly using data scraped from social media supercharged by AI and inadequate or negligent legal frameworks to sexually exploit and extort children. The truth is minors, on average, dive headlong into social media much earlier than the experts, many parents (or, to be fair, the law) would like. Most kids begin intensive, unsupervised use of digital devices of their several years before adolescence.

Often as early as 8 or 9 years old. In doing so, they expose themselves to a range of risks, including: