Once upon a time, we pasted photos of our babies and kids into scrapbooks. The scrapbook has increasingly moved online ”“ in many cases onto social media sites such as Facebook ”“ and the ease of filling up virtual page after virtual page is hard to overstate. This is not without consequences, of course.
These days, parents need to develop a strategy ”“ either through forethought or facts on the ground ”“ in order to use social media services such as Facebook as a way to document and share the moments of their kids’ lives. Err too far toward conservatism, and you lose a sense of community (and irritate the grandparents). Err too far in the other way, and some of your friends may view you as the equivalent of a polluter, clogging up their news feed with baby photo after baby photo.