Parents in the age of exposure

There's a high-traffic blog whose mission it is to expose what high-profile parents' kids have done on the Web, the Washington Post reports, but you don't have to be famous to be embarrassed by bloggers and social networkers at your house. The Post offers examples of children of state and federal lawmakers and media personalities acting out online, but also of a corporate executive defending his company's customer service before regulators while his son is blogging about customer-bashing policies in one of the company's retail outlets – one in which the dad got his son a job. There are so many roles in communities where teens' comfort level with the "age of public disclosure" and parents' discomfort with said could have an impact on family dynamics, not to mention professions, for example, teachers, police officers, and elected local leaders with kids in local schools. Increasingly, parents might find it pays to have a feel for what kids are uploading to the Web.