Comments on: My Baby Has More Friends Than Me

By: zac

zac — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:46:17 +0000

I agree with the sentiment that it’s already happening and it’s probably too late to do much about it (if we wanted to).

What really hurts my brain is trying to think of the “social network” our kids will really embrace. It’s more likely than not that it will be something we can’t comprehend right now and it will make us much more uncomfortable than we can imagine. Like when parents didn’t get chat rooms and the news depicted them as scary places your kids go and parents don’t know about it.

Expect to hear this “Oh thanks dad, so you secured a youtube account for me… what’s a youtube?”

By: cindy

cindy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:41:09 +0000

nice job Kenne! Your kids DEF have more friends than you.

By: Tony Long

Tony Long — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:18:12 +0000

My daughter’s school subscribes to a contained community / CMS tool called SchoolTown. It’s not great, but she loves being able to chat with friends during / after homework. It sounds idyllic, but it really does work like that…they will go on and ask questions and work on shared problems. Being cynical, I was very pleasantly surprised.

So, my response is, it’s already in full effect. We’re too late!

Thanks for the post.

P.S. – I am “holding” a domain for my daughter, but it’s unlikely enough that it’s hardly squatting…