Snowed here, first time the dog has seen snow and he’s lost his mind.
(Yeah I know - dog instagrams a bit much, but the wife is obsessed with the lovely little fucker)
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Dog instas are okay, just as long as they don’t do the ‘talking as the dog’ thing…ah fuck.
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Similar story here, the local tip/recycling centre you have to pre book and recycling at the supermarket just becomes a dump. I bag ours up separately and when they come round they happily take it thankfully.
When they project. “My mummy and daddy are the best mummy and daddy in the world!”
Fuck that.
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My breaking point on insta has been some aquaintances that have done the same thing for their child.
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Yup seen the kid ones, fuck that.
I post pics of him on my insta and sometimes here because I trust everyone.
But why would a kid need an insta.
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Ooof! In many ways that’s fucked up that people do that! Can’t imagine being my age now (32) and having my whole life since birth documented by someone else on the internet.
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I barely post photos of my kid, noone needs to have a curated social media account from birth. If you want to share photos with family just whatsapp em
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Man those kids will miss out on the treat of their parents pulling out the photo albums for their first girlfriend/boyfriend and drowning in embarrassment and shame .
My mate’s (soon to be ex) missus did this. She was prolific. Everything was tagged with shit like “blessed” “mommalife” “proudmummy” and that sort of shit. Turns out she was fully mental. We met her 18month old daughter and it was like meeting someone off the telly, we’d seen absolutely everything literally from day 1, knew her routine, favourite books, songs, what school she was in, everything. Fucking weird and made us (my mrs is a teacher) really twitchy about child protection. Made our minds up that our lad could decide on his own if he wants pictures online when he’s old enough
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One of the reasons I left Facebook and unfollow people on IG .
My folks certainly didn’t take endless photos of us as kids and daily knock on friends and neighbours doors to show them . Anyone would have thought they were bonkers doing that back then and definitely unfriended them.
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Which was probably all constructed anyway.
Like the “My three year-old just asked me, ‘Daddy, why did Prime Minister Johnson only give the members 48 hours over Christmas to read a 1,200 document? Will the fish be safe?’. Can’t believe it! Three years old!”-type lies.
Just accept that your kid is no more interesting than anybody else’s ffs.
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Yeah true , just weird how those moments/photos we had as kids would be throw away or one of thousands nowadays .
My male friends who I’ve unfollowed seem to use their kids as accessories to highlight how cool they are as a dad -like it’s a competition between them. The best rad dad , where it’s less about the fun for their kid and more about what they’ve made/built , places they are at etc.
But they’ve always been suckers for attention on film/camera/social media before they had kids.
This is just another avenue I suppose.
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23Snaps is a good compromise for kid photos. It’s a free online album you can only see if invited so you can restrict it to close friends and immediate family and they can dip if they’re finding it tedious, it’s not clogging up their feeds.
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I post kid photos on ig, at the rate of a few a month and post dumb stories sometimes. Certainly doing it a lot less than I once was and it’s a balancing act.
Also, if you’re posting kid photos and you’re not on private, I think you should probably consider why you’re doing it and the implications. I also don’t understand tying your kids into a business account or attempted influencer style account.
I have not stopped eating ludicrous amounts of food since Christmas Eve. Alcohol every day too.
When will it end!
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Washing down whole cows with gallons of wine.
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Same. Feel grim but have to power through until its gone… Ive nearly finished the turkey
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My brother in law just opened a butchers shop. We got so much meat. And my in laws sent me a whole wooden crate of smoked meat from Lithuania. I’ve not stopped chewing on a moose for days.
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I’ve more than several old school friends on FB that I’ve forgotten what they look like due to the constant photo blog updates about their kids, I went on a mute/ block cull about a year ago as one these old friends kept posting videos of her adolescent daughter performing adult style dance routines in leotards and skimpy dance class garb. I found it mortifying, the thought of accidentally “liking” was one thing plus some of her “old school friends” from bitd were and are total creeps. (Not me, ha)
The missus posts more photos of our daughter than I do, being a teacher everything of hers is private and she’s pretty selective about her friends but it’s still something that plays on my mind. She’s seen what a shitshow social media is, schoolkids are ruthless online. At her one of her previous schools the pupils would fake accounts of relatives and other teachers in an effort to access certain teachers profiles, it came to a head when one NQT had her old ibiza bikini photos posted on the school notice board.
I don’t want my kid to have a phone, I’m hoping for a solar flare. The birds and the bees will be an easy conversation compared to “why you shouldn’t share nudes with you mates…”
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