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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I refuse to be one of those parents who is always taking pictures and videos of their kids.  I'm so glad that Iphones barely existed when my kids were babies.  Parents spend so much time trying to curate a "moment" it all ends up being fake.  There is no way you can captures really meaningful moments unless you ALWAYS have your phone out and on the ready.

I know I'm the odd one out of this one.  My SILs both seem to spend all their time taking and posting pictures of their kids.  I guess a lot of people like that, I find it highly annoying and truly fake.  They don't take pictures of their kid hitting other kids or crying or being assholes.  IT's all just so fake. [/quote]

I get where you're coming from, but it's not always about "curating" a sense of happiness. My husband takes a million pictures and videos and he's not on any social media platforms. We look at the videos all the time and reminisce about the baby's efforts to crawl or eat peas for the first time--really small things that no one else really cares about. I'm happy we have them.

I do think it's rude when parents film other kids together at the park or library story times. I don't want my kid showing up their random social media accounts. I wish parents would be more mindful of that when they pull out their phones.

There's a lot that's fake on social media, and it's not just endless pictures of smiling children. My SIL's account looks like a Pinterest page, but I know that in reality she's screaming at her husband for not wiping up his coffee spill. [/quote]

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