Before naming his child, Mark Pankow checked to make sure [the child’s name] hadn’t already been claimed. “One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available.”
Parents determining the name of their child on the availability of a web name domain????? This has to be to be one of the ultimate representations of the self-centered, attention grabbing ,”look at me” aspect of the web.
So the new trend is to set up websites for your children so that everyone can go to the site and see everything about the wonder child! Let’s remember that this will be a bonanza for pedophiles shopping for new targets. After all the warnings about not using your real name and identifying comments on MySpace and the other social sites, these parents are actually promoting their children and all their contacts and personal details! What are they thinking? Oh yeah, anything to get you to look at me!
Technology is changing faster than we can write about it. It won’t surprise me in the least if by the time these babies can type on the keyboard, it probably won’t be a keyboard we will be using. And the seeds of narcissism that was planted in the young ones will be full blown and we’ll be having to deal with these nuts out in the real world.