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I just stumbled upon the concept of a "Smash Cake" and it enraged me so much I had to rant about it somewhere. Would it be out of line to threaten my in-laws that if anyone even thinks about doing (getting? making?) a smash cake for Don that I'll make Nik disown them? It probably is. I probably wouldn't be so irritated if I hadn't discovered this concept from a facebook friend I haven't seen since high school who posted about a custom smash cake for a photo shoot more than a month before the baby's birthday. Let that fuckin sink in. A photo shoot for a <11 month old to commemorate her first birthday.
Would half the people who have babies right now even have babies if they couldn't post about them all over Facebook? I kind of doubt it. I sincerely wonder how it's going to be for kids in ~10 years from now when they're all becoming horrible tweens who will surely be able to pull up posts about someone shitting themselves in hilarious fashion, not to mention the plethora of baby photos. It won't matter that the cool kids all suffered the same exposure; they'll still use said posts to harrass the "losers." Imagine that, how shitty middle school was before social media, but now everyone can pass around some humiliating image you surely never would have allowed to be public had you any autonomy at the time. Gives me the willies just thinking about it.
Meanwhile the only baby I would even remotely care to see pop up on my feed once in a while has parents with a strict No-Facebook policy. I'm glad about it, but... yea. Figures.
Anyway, I'm happy I accepted friend requests from former students. They're out running around on silly adventures and going to parties instead of posting baby pictures and deluding themselves into thinking that baby is special to anyone outside their immediate family.
Would half the people who have babies right now even have babies if they couldn't post about them all over Facebook? I kind of doubt it. I sincerely wonder how it's going to be for kids in ~10 years from now when they're all becoming horrible tweens who will surely be able to pull up posts about someone shitting themselves in hilarious fashion, not to mention the plethora of baby photos. It won't matter that the cool kids all suffered the same exposure; they'll still use said posts to harrass the "losers." Imagine that, how shitty middle school was before social media, but now everyone can pass around some humiliating image you surely never would have allowed to be public had you any autonomy at the time. Gives me the willies just thinking about it.
Meanwhile the only baby I would even remotely care to see pop up on my feed once in a while has parents with a strict No-Facebook policy. I'm glad about it, but... yea. Figures.
Anyway, I'm happy I accepted friend requests from former students. They're out running around on silly adventures and going to parties instead of posting baby pictures and deluding themselves into thinking that baby is special to anyone outside their immediate family.