An event conducted in Michigan suggested parents to not share too much information about kids on social media as it could put them at risk. A new study has found that an increasing number of parents across the globe have been posting too much information about their kids on social media and putting the little ones at risk.

The study has been conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan’s C. S. Mott Children's Hospital. The researchers found that more than 50% parents who were included in the study shared personal information of them and their children. This could help other people with wrong intentions to identify the location of a child. The study also stated that about 56% parents surveyed shared embarrassing or private information of their children.

The study has named it ‘sharenting’. In this, parents share too much information about their children on the Internet. Police spokesman Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said that the Waco city police have not seen any cases, where information from social media was used against a child, but that does not mean parents shouldn’t be careful and post anything on social media about their child.

Swanton further said, “You’ve got to consider that there are a lot of predators out there. So we just tell people to be cautious about sending signals out to people about where they might be or where their children may be.”

According to the study, Sharenting could be used against a child in many ways. Sharenting not only provides crucial information about a child to child predator, but it also could make them the target of digital kidnapping. Digital kidnapping occurs when predators steal kids’ online photos and share them as if the children were their own.

The study recommended that parents should not post secret information on social media about their kids.