Is It Weird To Reserve A Social Media Handle For Your Kid Before They Can Walk?!
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Virch Show. |
| 0:02.7 | Our audio producer, Kay Lee, is more annoyed than usual this morning. |
| 0:08.3 | It has to do with your kids and social media handles? |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, well, I got into this conversation with my wife the other night |
| 0:15.1 | because she was saying that she feels like most celebrities these days, |
| 0:18.3 | or, I mean, it could be more than celebrities, probably already reserve their social media handles for their kids before they're born. It's probably smart, right? I mean, I guess. As soon as you know what you're going to name your child, then you reserve that. I feel like that's annoying. You should have to, like, you know, come up with a good handle. Like, I mean, at least have to like think about it. |
| 0:40.7 | I mean, most of the, most people can't reserve their name because it's already taken. |
| 0:44.2 | So you've got to come up with some clever way to create one. |
| 0:47.3 | But, you know, that's neither here nor there. |
| 0:49.6 | But then we started kind of having a bigger conversation. |
| 0:52.5 | And it was like, what about you know because |
| 0:55.2 | I have some friends who's their kids already have social media handles and a phone and it's like |
| 1:01.4 | and some of the kids have even gotten in trouble sure and then I went down this like wormhole online |
| 1:06.2 | and I came across this word and I hate the word because it reminds me of sharding it's |
| 1:12.8 | sharenting have you ever heard of sharenting I guess it's when like takes a village |
| 1:18.7 | kind of no no not at all it's more or less parents who you know like create like share their kids |
| 1:26.0 | like pictures online even like they'll have like a handle already for their kids and they'll be sharing photos of their kids on their kids' handles. Yeah, no, I mean, I don't have, Jimmy doesn't have his own Instagram because I made the decision to share them publicly until he's like, hey, mom, I don't want you posting my pictures anymore, |
| 1:45.9 | which, of course, I will, by right now, he's good for the gram, |
| 1:48.2 | so it's going to happen. |
| 1:49.0 | Right, right. |
| 1:49.6 | But so, yeah, no, I'm, I share it that way. |
| 1:55.5 | But I do have friends who have created profiles. |
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