I am watching the New Reality Show, The Prince Diaries who is Peter Andre and Katie Price's daughter and she shares a message to her friend, in her show and her dad, about guys on Social Media sending her inappropriate messages and I have had that too, or asked if they can call me and chat to me directly, yet I am not a reality star. Not saying that I disagree with Reality shows, but that even I innocently posting a selfie, too help my confidence, and fully clothed, was getting weird men wanting to hook up. I now block and have become more vigilant about what I post.
There are two sides of this. That you,
- Shouldn't be showing others yourself online if you don't want inappropriate messaging. Like those who are sending these messages, have the right to so
- Adding filters to your selfies, is the cause
- Showing images of yourself naked whilst pregnant or a friend I knew from when working at Butlins, showing pictures and writing a message of her daughter that had sadly passed away, is. wrong
I have no judgement on that, the human body is amazing and celebrating peoples lives, of people no longer in the world, to raise awareness and get support from others, is up to the person. I never really worried about my body when I was pregnant, but wouldn't have the confidence to show my body whilst pregnant or at all.
I think as long as you keep yourself safe and you are aware of other peoples views, then it is up to you.
If you share a picture of a love one, can help others feel they aren't alone and can get help with helping others, then it can be a great asset to post on online.
Then there is trolling and bullying and it can lead to that.
My one bit of advice is, make sure your on guard, that if anything comes up, you don't entertain them.
With Princess (Peter Andrea and Katie Price) daughter has always been in the limelight and grown up with cameras in her face, and that can add pressure and insecure. I think about Karen Carpenter and she began to be affected by horrible reports in the News Papers.
Being in the headlines and living with celebrity parents, people can be extra unkind, when I worked in a call center and helped people through the chat service, could be so much ruder and unkind. I was threatened, called names and told that I should get run over by a train. As a kid I wanted to be famous, but I know now, if I had been from a young age, it would have affected me, in terms of insecurity and damage, a lot more because I already had insecurities.
I am glad that there was no social media back when I was a child. Yet people were unkind still growing up in the 80's, in newspapers, sporting events and Miss World competitions. There were page three girls, Miss World, Ring Girls and Playboy.
Then you had String fellows, with Topless dancing and nude modeling.
As a Temp I worked in a Porn Magazine company, processing invoices and met a girl there who I'd known since a kid and they were local women. Then you had the Supermodel, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford. Were these models showing too much? Is it exploitation like Ring girls or Topless Models?
Should they get attacked and have strange people sending obscene messages?
I think personally that more should be done. I also think that it is not just men. I have had girls on Twitter asking if they can meet me and yet I would post about music, TV I have watched and I did report and not had anything for a while.
So where should we draw the line?
Please share below. I'd like to hear your views.
I think that social media sites should instantly get the law involved. I like the fact that there are organisations stopping Hackers, but we also need to crack down on trolling and inappropriate messages. I do think it should be an offence and they should have a system where they are instantly blocked those who trolling, bullying and being obscene online, so they can't access anything.
Summary
- Be on guard
- Report straight away
- Block
I hope you find this blog helpful and you can put Parental Controls on sites and change your Privacy settings too.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X