LOSERBOOK

I'm sure the feelings of the future children/pre-teens who've had their Facebook profiles set up by their newbie parents and/or who've had pictures posted on their parents' walls/albums will be akin to the grown-up Nirvana baby when they realise what their parents have done. Nude baby pictures in a family album tucked away for only family and close friends to see is one thing, but these parents are completely destroying their child's right to privacy by plastering would-be embarrassing photos on a medium that everyone can read. One might say, 'Oh, you could just configure the privacy settings so that's not the case,' but newbie parents aren't familiar with/don't care about that, as Lamebook.com has a few choice pictures of babies covered in their own shit in the midst of a diaper change and of babies breastfeeding on their front page already.

I'm sure all new parents want to show off their newborns because they're so proud and yadda yadda yadda (also see: 16 and Preggers), but I don't think using Facebook is the way to go, especially since anything and everything can be unearthed, or, rather, uninterneted these days. These kids are going to want their privacy when they're older, and I'm sure they don't want their friends in elementary and high school coming across these incriminating photos. It's been stated again and again that one has to be careful when showing their Facebook friends how big of a partier they are and the like because one must assume their prospective employer is going to do a Facebook check to see what they're really like outside the interview/application process. A picture here and there of someone toking up or doing a keg stand isn't going to bode well for their chances at getting hired. If, or, as it is the case these days, when these kids are being stalked by a frienemy, potential girlfriend or boyfriend, or ex-lover down the road, well, I'm sure you get the picture.