Facebook’s “Scrapbook” Gives Children Digital Identity

Last week, Facebook enabled a feature for U.S. users called “Scrapbook,” which allows parents to compile baby photos in one place and share them with friends. 

In order to use this feature, users must identify their relationships on their profile.  Scrapbooks can only be created for children that are listed under a user’s “Family and Relationships” section.  Parents have the ability to co-own a scrapbook with the partner identified in their relationship status. 

This new feature reflects an important decision that parents must make when it comes to their child’s digital footprints.  Children whose parents create digital scrapbooks not only inherit a digital identity, but they also inherit a digital identity within Facebook.

See Priya Kumar, Facebook’s New Baby-Photo Feature Lets Children Inherit a Digital Identity, Slate, Apr. 6, 2015.