We should all know less about each other. This mantra has popped up on Twitter recently, often in response to people sharing graphic personal details online that nobody asked for. With the advent of social media, we have become conditioned to share so much of our lives with strangers. We’re not just showing the shiny and remarkable parts of our lives with strangers; we’re showing everything! We post pictures daily because an app tells us to «be real.» We share our traumas on TikTok because those bring us attention. We tell people in Facebook groups our whole life story because boundaries no longer exist! 

If you’re an adult who overshares about your life on the internet, that’s all well and good. I can’t tell you how to manage your digital footprint. However, when parents can’t help but post crazy things about their kids online, things get a bit more ethically dubious, like in the following wild parenting posts.