Very like vampires, stuff you put up on-line dwell ceaselessly.
So, it is sensible that Sarah Michelle Gellar needs to slay any potential of her youngsters being haunted by the demons of their TikTok pasts.
The previous “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star just lately informed Yahoo that she and husband Freddie Prinze Jr. don’t permit their youngsters to have social media accounts and barely allow them to have a look at the platforms.
“Our guidelines are in all probability stricter than most. Our children don’t have social media,” Gellar informed the outlet. “They’re allowed to look generally when it’s our telephones. Generally, our youngsters will probably be like, ‘You guys are the strictest family!’ However I say, ‘Sure, however everybody nonetheless needs to return right here!’”
Gellar then stated as a way to drive residence the thought of permanence on-line, she informed her daughter Charlotte, 13, and son Rocky, 10, to consider youngsters publishing social media posts as getting a “Paw Patrol” tattoo in your face at age 5.
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“As a result of at that age, there’s nothing higher than ‘Paw Patrol.’ And now, you’re 10 and [13], and you continue to have these tattoos in your face, and it’s not even who you might be anymore,” Gellar stated she defined to her youngsters. “That’s a really arduous idea for younger youngsters to understand.”
Gellar is properly conscious of how a social media put up might go south. The actor needed to problem an apology in 2018 when she posted a collection of images of herself in lingerie on Instagram “as a reminder to not overeat” throughout Thanksgiving. Though Gellar stated in her apology that she was attempting to be “humorous,” many felt the put up was selling “eating regimen tradition,” “fats shaming” and will set off folks with disordered consuming.
Right here’s simply hoping that’s not who Gellar is anymore.