One passage from the story reads ...
The marching orders come immediately, with the newborn photo, which must be e-mailed to friends before a baby has left the maternity ward. A conscientious father — chief executive of the budding business — must snap dozens of shots of the modestly wrapped newborn, generally with a Canon PowerShot though sometimes with a showy digital single-lens-reflex camera or a lowly cameraphone. Back at a laptop, he uploads the haul, scrutinizing pixels with the intensity of Anna Wintour. He selects a becoming one. The mother signs off, often via e-mail, from her hospital bed.For better or worse, I'm one of those fathers, having planned and posted a blog entry within hours of Phoebe's birth ... Heck, just look at all stories, photos and videos of her I've posted on this blog -- I posted another one the other night -- and that doesn't include all of the photos posted to Flickr, the videos on YouTube, and the Facebook status updates. (What's more, notice how I've shamelessly provided a link to all of them ...)
Interestingly, I stumbled on this story this morning just a couple nights after reading about and finding "STFU, Parents," a blog that lampoons parents who go a little overboard with their Facebook status updates ...
And now that I'm self-conscious about producing and posting too much about my kid. I'll end this post and move on to another topic ...
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