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Setting up social media for a baby

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Darkdarkplace · 07/12/2018 21:28

My friend has set up a instagram account & Twitter account for her 6 month old baby, posting pictures every hour of what the baby is doing, the bio is-
'Baby * I'm so cute.. This page is run by my hot mama and her mum is tagged
I find it so strange, it's not even on private!
Aibu to think shes a bit bonkers???

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GunpowderGelatine · 08/12/2018 05:44

Good grief. I don't think I could be friends with someone like that. I suspect now she thinks that her baby is the cutest eva and why wouldn't people want to follow her on Instagram - in 3 years time she'll cringe looking back

Flowerpot2005 · 08/12/2018 05:51

It's going well then, following 460 with 106 following...

More like luke warm mama LOL!

Idontknowwhyinfrench · 08/12/2018 05:57

Fb was still a bit of a novelty when my dd was born and I did consider setting up her own account (my dog had one already ).
So glad I didn’t -what a twat I would have looked!
I know a few people who have set up private accounts for their dc so they can store up a type of scrapbook for them for the future-that doesn’t seem so bad

GunpowderGelatine · 08/12/2018 06:00

What is an Instamum? I'm not on Instagram (nor do I understand it)

Mummyoflittledragon · 08/12/2018 06:14

I find this obsession creepy tbh. Sunshine what you are doing is completely different. Not creepy at all.

19lottie82 · 08/12/2018 06:51

Cringeeeeeeee I don’t understand why people set up SM accounts for their children.

Caprisunorange · 08/12/2018 08:21

I don’t understand why anyone thinks she’s trying to make money or be an instamum. The OP gives no indication of that at all

Huntawaymama · 08/12/2018 08:26

When I had my eldest nearly 4 years ago I had snap chat and it quickly changed to snaps of the baby, one day my husband said "do you really think people want to look at snaps of our child all the time?" And it really struck something in me, no one really cares much about other people's kids. Don't get me wrong I like to see the odd picture but constant ones are just silly. I don't think people should be making public profiles for their babies

Frazzled2207 · 08/12/2018 08:44

Morally wrong imo.
A private account that wasn't shared beyond immediate family is ok but sharing it publically is all types of wrong. My opinion.

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Darkdarkplace · 08/12/2018 10:43

This morning's post is "good morning all, I'm going to be eating my breakfast and getting mucky soon so my mummy has to bath me!" She is using lots of hash tags which indicate she may be trying to get the baby featured on some more popular pages? #childmodel #cutestbaby #mamalovesyou
I am cringing!

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nickiredcar · 08/12/2018 11:16

A public account and the captions mentioned sound like she's trying to get brand deals.

GabsAlot · 08/12/2018 12:07

yes it all about showing off and pssibly making money using their child

quite sad really

Printerneedsink · 08/12/2018 12:12

Plenty of other ways to "store your photos", if that's what you want to do.

Unicornandbows · 08/12/2018 12:15

People have special ones for their dogs too. I think each to their own if the mums happy then so be it. If you don't want to see it then unfollow it. There isnt much that can be done about it really

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