A lot has been said about the moral corruption of kids who think sexting is an innocent game to be played on social media sites. But, what about the parents of those kids? What role do they play? What example do they set when they too are texting minute details about their own personal lives?
When Twitter was first launched in 2006, I doubt anyone could image the impact it would have on family relations. After all, who would have thought that 140-character tweets could change the way a planet full of people communicate.
These days millions of people, parents and children included, share random thoughts they think are tweet-worthy to a network of friends and strangers. Basically, what started out as a place for bored people to discuss the highlights and lowlights of their daily lives has turned into an abyss of mundane fodder and a vehicle for exhibitionists.
Over sharing thy name is tweets.
All of this came into play last week when a former colleague of mine went into labor and refused to tweet about it.
Why is that seemingly reasonable decision controversial?
Because said colleague is in the TV news business and our network of hounds wanted minute-by-minute posts on what was going on during her labor and delivery?
Why? Because apparently tweeting your labor is the “in” thing to do these days.
Just ask Fi Star-Stone, a 34-year-old British woman, who recently made headlines for tweeting her 13-hour home birth experience. In between her pushing, grunting, and goodness knows what else, Star-Stone was able to keep her sweaty paws on her PDA and whip out details of her child leaving her womb and entering into the world.
TMI!!!
Star-Stone claims that she took to the Twitter-verse to show her followers “the positive side of childbirth.” Never mind that she could have accomplished her goal after her baby was born, but hey, she scored 250 replies and 100 new followers by doing it her way, so who am I to judge?
Would you consider tweeting during labor and delivery? Why?
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