for my sake, no one in my family (except for my brother, and one of my cousins who is a trans woman) gets to know about my online life. i am very openly "cutesy girl mode" whenever i'm online, around the aforementioned cousin, or in downtown/uptown. and my parents never need to know about this; i'm not a child anymore, so whatever i do on the web is none of their business. at the very least, i can show them my website that showcases my work, but that's as far as i'm willing to go
it's funny. back in the 2000s, when i was a kid, we all had facebook accounts, and i was less worried about sharing pictures of myself. but now that i'm a young adult and know about big tech's crap, i care very much about my online privacy. suffice it to say, never will i be going back to facebook to follow the family again