Parents who make and update Facebook profiles for their children drive me nuts. Why does your infant need a profile separate from your own when s/he cannot even update it on their own?
You don’t need to secure a domain for your unborn baby. You don’t need to start building their personal brand. Let them live their own life. Let them build their own online presence. Be there to guide them. Help them through the mistakes. But whatever you do, don’t do the work for them while they are still in the womb.
Your kids will not learn if you hold their hand through all aspects of navigating the online world. I built my own website when I was ten. My parents didn’t help me at all. They were absolutely amazed by what I had done. They told me what they liked and didn’t like, and what they thought was safe. My parents have never been web savvy, but they were able to keep tabs on me while still letting me explore and build my own presence.
You need to keep an eye on what your child does online for their security. But you don’t need to start feeding all their information into Facebook, Google, and any other database willing to build a profile until their ready to get online for them self.
And please, don’t sacrifice their eternal data to Facebook until they can make the choice to do so. By then, it will probably be like Myspace or Friendster.
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