‘Expected: Child’: Facebook Welcomes Fetuses to Social Media
If you’re already sick of friends posting photos of their children on Facebook, then this article is probably not for you. It’s no shock to anyone using Facebook that people use the social networking site for far more than just connecting with friends. They use it as a forum to post photos of their friends and families, life milestones and events. Facebook is now offering these social media sharers the option to add their unborn children to their online family trees. When listing family members, Facebook now offers parents-to-be the option to add in that they are expecting a child. As a younger generation is now growing up with Facebook as a part of everyday life, what happens when we extend those babies who haven’t even been born yet? Children without actual footprints have a social footprint before they are even born.
While each upcoming generation will obviously have a different relationship with social media than the ones before them, it’s hard for me to get on board with parents who are creating these digital lives for their children before they are even able to type on a computer. Of course there have always been overbearing parents, but by establishing any type of digital footprint for your child before they have even come into the world is taking that to a whole new level.
While the idea of giving unborn children a digital footprint makes me uncomfortable, there are obviously those who disagree. So what do you think? Is it odd for unborn children to have a presence on social media sites?
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Partnerships: Leveraging Social Media For Banking
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Measurement: Big Marketers: Social Tracking Now A Priority, Tools Still Lacking
A new study among senior-level marketers shows that 95% believe that tracking consumer conversations about their brand via social media is important to their overall marketing efforts.
Influencers: CTRL+ALT+DEL: The 15 Worst-Dressed Men Of Silicon Valley
They might be some of the brightest, but GQ is now questioning how some of them men in Silicon Valley are dressing. They have released their list of the 15 worst-dressed men, and guess who is topping the chart? Why, none other than Mark Zuckerberg.
Fun Stuff: Newt Gingrich’s Twitter Followers Are 8% Human
Only 8% of Newt Gingrich’s followers on Twitter are human, the lowest number of human followers on Twitter right now.
