I just don’t get it. Keep your kid off social media or lock your account down if you can’t handle comments.
Should people comment on other people’s children? Probably not. Would I have been a bit pissed off it had been me? Yeah.
I’ve had similar happen to me. Well, kind of. Though I did technically start it by pulling someone up on Facebook. I can’t even remember what the post was about, it was in a Facebook group, hundreds of replies, and someone used “******” as an insult. I responded something along the lines of “I’m more shocked by the fact that in 2017 (or whatever year it was) ****** is being thrown around as an acceptable insult by adults” I can’t remember the exact wording but it was words to that effect. Now my Facebook is locked down but all of my previous profile pictures were visible, I’ve tightened it up since then. This delightful individual screenshot a picture of my child and posted it in response saying something like “no wonder she’s so offended, her kids an effing gong”
I was pretty hurt, my son actually has a global developmental delay, amongst other things. But I stayed calm, reminded myself that it’s not visible. Replied simply with “this says more about you than it does me” and reported the comment. I didn’t feel the need to “set” my friends on the person, doxx them, or anything else. I’ve learnt to tighten up my privacy settings, I certainly wouldn’t continue posting pictures of him if I had been doing, I was very naive, super careful but hadn’t thought about profile pics, I certainly didn’t think to share an identifying screenshot on my Instagram. Granted I have little under 3000 followers on there, not quite 3 million, my army would have been smaller
Ok, it’s starred the word out, I didn’t think that through. It was the word beginning with R that used to be applied to those with developmental delays.