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Melissa Mccarter
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Is Family Vlogging for Profit Ethical?

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It might include day to day life shopping halls, games or gaming or participating in challenges or other trends. However, Family Vloggers raise some difficult ethical questions. That's because they feature children. Some of the issues include using children for essentially free labor without the protections that are in other traditional entertainment. Exploring the lives of children and having their images online when they can't consent is also an issue. Then there's the issue of what are the long term consequences of having their lives displayed on social media

YouTube vloggers provide entertainment. But a recent controversy involving a popular family vlogger complicates this. #socialmedia #popculture #family

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