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Adoption Social Media Info

Social Media for Adoptive Families

Resources, information and practical ideas to help adoptive families manage their privacy, social media contact, and online relationships. Plus research to help improve our knowledge and understanding of the issues.

Adoption Social Media Info digests information, research and guidance about adoption and social media from agencies, trainers, support centres, researchers and organizations around the world.

Controlling Privacy

Information, resources and guides for managing your adoptive family’s online privacy

Some of the topics covered include:

  • Managing your own online presence and your partner’s
  • Managing your child’s online presence
  • How to discover where you have an online presence
  • How to delete your online presence
  • How to find out if someone is looking for you or your child
  • Posting your adoption match on Facebook
  • How can my location be discovered from a photo posted on Facebook?
  • How can I check if my location can be discovered from a photo I’ve posted?

Articles

  • How to remove your location data before sharing photos
  • How your location can be discovered from a photo you post on Facebook
  • Facebook automatically strips location information from photos – but that may change

Managing Contact

Tips for preparing and managing birth family social media contact and open adoption. How to cope with unexpected birth mother contact.

Articles

  • Social Media and Adoptive Family Birth Mother Contact (Video)

Building Resilience

Tips for building your child’s digital resilience to online encounters

Some of the topics covered include:

  • How adopted children can be more vulnerable online
  • Cyberbullying

Articles

  • The public generation – Sharenting childhood on social media

Online Support

Get online adoption support from Facebook groups, forums, podcasts, coaches and agencies

  • My Top 3 Adoption and Fostering Podcasts

Relevant Books

Books about open adoption, birth family contact, social media, and Internet safety


Additional Resources

Online courses, videos, articles, and research reports relating to adoption and social media

 

AdoptionSocialMedia.Info is a general information website only. You should always speak to your case worker or therapist for advice about your personal situation. Read Disclaimer

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