Francis Foster

I was very skinny.

And I spent a lot of my time in Venezuela.

And my Venezuelan family always used to go, you're so white.

Why are you so white?

You need to go to the beach, get some sun.

not great advice, talking about advice from family, but I remember that inculcated in me a painful shyness, particularly around when it came to my physical appearance.

And even taking photos would be really uncomfortable for me.

I'd do it, but there was no part of that that was pleasurable for me in the slightest.

And I was thinking to myself, if that was my experience of having a family photo taken,

What would it be like Instagram?

And I feel we can very easily get into blaming parents, shaming parents.

But I think we also need to have a lot of empathy for parents.

It's like when you talk about face shoot, I've got no idea.

And then to a lot of parents, they had no idea of the tech.

They had no idea what was actually happening.

And more importantly, nobody really had an idea about the long-term consequences of

Because when I was growing up, and this also happened 20 years ago because of the tabloid press,

more and more parents, understandably so, were concerned about safety.

And in particular, physical safety.

And it seemed like every summer there'd be some type of horrific crime where a young girl got kidnapped and they went missing.