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		By: Fallon Meyer		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi,

Gosh. Your article hit home for me. My husband and I have suffered such criticism and backlash for wanting to keep our daughter and photographs of her off of social media. We have shared a couple of our own photographs but they do not show her face at all. We have even approached friends &#038; family and asked them to remove photographs from social media that show our daughters face or ones we are not comfortable with. My husband’s sister has been the least understanding and has actually verbally attacked my husband and I for not doing certain things “according to social media rules” from our photographs we share, to keeping our lives private, choosing to keep pregnancy announcements off of Facebook &#038; delayed etc. We told her we have our reasons for this decision and she doesn’t have to know the reasons. We have had family recently fall seriously ill and end up in hospital, we’ve had close family announce a pregnancy of their first baby, we have had another close family wedding, and we have friends who have recently suffered miscarriages or who have spent their last savings on IVF that has failed again and they have no other options. We have felt that announcing a pregnancy during these moments would seem extremely disrespectful and hurtful and so we delayed telling people. We also feel it is our news and we were so delayed in finding out ourselves and we’re so behind on the routine blood and scan tests and had to wait for those result, but our sister-in-law has literally turned the entire situation to be about her and has made herself out to be a victim. It is not only continuously frustrating for us to deal with her in this regard but we feel she is disrespectful to us &#038; our wishes. Thank you for shedding light on what social changes and pressures social media has put on people and their privacy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Gosh. Your article hit home for me. My husband and I have suffered such criticism and backlash for wanting to keep our daughter and photographs of her off of social media. We have shared a couple of our own photographs but they do not show her face at all. We have even approached friends &amp; family and asked them to remove photographs from social media that show our daughters face or ones we are not comfortable with. My husband’s sister has been the least understanding and has actually verbally attacked my husband and I for not doing certain things “according to social media rules” from our photographs we share, to keeping our lives private, choosing to keep pregnancy announcements off of Facebook &amp; delayed etc. We told her we have our reasons for this decision and she doesn’t have to know the reasons. We have had family recently fall seriously ill and end up in hospital, we’ve had close family announce a pregnancy of their first baby, we have had another close family wedding, and we have friends who have recently suffered miscarriages or who have spent their last savings on IVF that has failed again and they have no other options. We have felt that announcing a pregnancy during these moments would seem extremely disrespectful and hurtful and so we delayed telling people. We also feel it is our news and we were so delayed in finding out ourselves and we’re so behind on the routine blood and scan tests and had to wait for those result, but our sister-in-law has literally turned the entire situation to be about her and has made herself out to be a victim. It is not only continuously frustrating for us to deal with her in this regard but we feel she is disrespectful to us &amp; our wishes. Thank you for shedding light on what social changes and pressures social media has put on people and their privacy.</p>
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