How will our Facebook affect our children?
One of my first vivid memories of realizing my parents had a life before my existence was when I saw a picture of my mum as a teenager at a club.
It might not seem like much right now, but when you’re a little kid, understand that your parents used to be young and non-parents was quite a revelation. Seeing it was incredibly mind-blowing.
So what will happen with the coming-soon generation of kids whose parents not only have documented their every-weekend but also announced the moment they became parents?
Do you remember when you were a kid and you saw pictures of the younger versions of your parents? Now think that not only would you be able to look at hundreds of those pictures, but also read what they enjoyed, what they were worried about, what they hated…
Our children will know us better than any other children ever. They will be able to see how pictures of getting shit-face every Saturday in Candem quickly became pictures of the latest sale in Ikea, delicious dinner parties and Summer BBQs with beers being replaced by Wine and the latest Waitrose delicatessen.
Will our children be more emotionally stable? Will it be more easy for them to understand our concerns seeing how we were young and wild as well?
Only time will tell, in the meantime, just think that your Facebook will be used against you the moment you try to explain how getting drunk is a horrible thing to your children; while pictures of you, completely shit-face, having the time of your life, and a comment that says “best night ever” judgmentally look you in the face.
That is all.
