The perils of "sharenting"

For most Millennial adults, our social media feeds have largely shifted from a stream of selfies, travel photos, and party pictures to an endless scroll of baby photos.  Sharing daily updates on social media is something of an automatic reflex for most Gen Y-ers, and as we've grown up this habit has naturally extended to the sharing of pictures of our kids. 

But is sharing baby photos on the internet a bad idea?

An article in the New Yorker, "Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of Sharenting" discusses the dangers of sharing photos and other content about your children when they are too young to consent.  Current generations of adults had the privilege of opting in to sharing personal data online, and continue to do so today even though we know much of what we post is sold to third parties or vulnerable to hackers.  However, by posting photos of our kids we are not extending them the same privilege, thus robbing them of their agency.  What are the repercussions of raising a generation of children with every moment of their lives documented on the internet?  Do we really want to give advertisers,  companies, and potential bad actors this sort of information about our most vulnerable citizens?  

Maybe we should just go back to posting selfies and funny cat videos.  The internet felt like a much safer place back then.