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Parents with no time for tradition baby books quickly discovered that blogging baby was time-saving electronic alternative to keep friends and relatives updated on their child's growth and development.
Now parents have a new option for sharing the daily minutia with friends and relatives- Twitter-like social networks that are kept under the baby's name and written from a first-person perspective.
"It's an interesting model," said Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist for the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "Everyone can decide how much or little they want to know about a baby, which avoids the situation of receiving a few too many e-mails about someone's wonderful child, and parents can decide how much they want to share - in minimal or maximal ways."
Parents can also use the networking platforms to create a group of cyberspace peer "friends" for their infants, but one has to wonder.........why?! Is this a way for parents to now cyberly helicopter their children before the tots can even speak for themselves or is it an attempt to create the next generation's Dooce, or simply a way to lighten the monotony of caring for a sleepless infant?
| It sounds kind of cute and clever! | |
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| I'd never do it myself, but I've heard of worse. | |
| It's insane and further proof that having children makes people lose their minds. |











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9-21-2008 @ 7:30PM
Kam Wilson said...I'm all for it...but then I run my own blog http://www.raisinglakota.com where I talk all about raising my baby, working from home, etc. already.
I guess I like creative things, so hey....this is creative! There's nothing like having fun seeing things from a different perspective! A babies perspective on life just might be refreshing.
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9-21-2008 @ 9:46PM
Uly said...It's a way to talk about your kid - which you know everybody wants to do anyway - without boring the people who aren't interested in your kid.
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9-22-2008 @ 9:28AM
Mallory said...I think this is great especially for families who are spread out. I agree with Uly that then this is the perfect way to update everyone about your kid without bugging people all the time.
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9-22-2008 @ 1:52AM
Carolyn said...I love parenting blogs - I have my own and enjoy reading others' - but the ones written from the baby's perspective ("Mom almost barfed when she saw what I left for her in my diaper this morning...") are hard for me to get into.
Besides that, I've been on Twitter for a few months and am still not really seeing its appeal. So I think I'll be skipping this trend...
Carolyn
http://www.momsontheedge.ca
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9-24-2008 @ 11:27AM
Trish O'Leary said...I think it is a fabulous idea to have a blog for your kids. It is so time consuming sending out individual letters and pictures to the family if they are spread across the nation. BUT if you have a blog you can up load a ton of pictures, videos and audios. It just makes more sense to my personally.
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