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Parents Twittering and Facebook-Updating For Their Tots

by Tim Stevens on September 12, 2008 at 08:20 AM


Social networks are becoming a bit passe. Sure, MySpace and Facebook are still growing, but that growth is slowing, despite the two networks still having half the world's Internet users out there to recruit. That the FBI and CIA are getting in on the action shows how mainstream (and tired) friending has become. Even so, according to the New York Times, it looks like social-networking still has a new, hot market just waiting to be exploited: toddlers.

Moms and dads who may be a bit bored with posting status updates for themselves on their Facebook pages are finding the joys of doing the same for their young'uns, who are usually far too young to think of a computer as anything other than a box they aren't allowed to play in. Baby networks like Totspot are popping up everywhere, and they're the modern equivalent of showing wallet-sized pics of your offspring to anyone who will look (though, at least in this case, we can just choose not to click). Some folks who spoke to the Times find the trend a bit disturbing, as these networks haven't always been the most secure things. We're not so worried about that, though -- we just think it's all a bit odd. [From: The New York Times]

Tags: babies, facebook, myspace, social networking, SocialNetworking, totspot

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