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Confessions of a Geek Mommy |
| Posted: 5/15/2011 |
| Confessions of a Geek Mommy I saw an article today that purports that 7.5 million users of Facebook <http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/underage-facebook-members-75-million-users-age-13/story?id=13565619> , are now currently under the age of 13. Most concerns are about the safety of these children who may or may not have parental supervision online. According to the article, Consumer Reports had an annual survey which looked at the State of the Net, asking more then 2,000 U.S households with an Internet connection about their experiences with online security threats, social networks, and identity theft. This survey made me chuckle a little since Im sure they would have had a field day if they had spoken to my household. Confession 1: My One Year Old Has a Website My husband and I are both technophiles and self admitted web geeks. After the birth of our daughter in 2009, we did what any other proud parents would do... we immediately registered her domain and set her up with her own website for the grandparents to peruse photos (ok ok, we also thought it would be funny if she owned her own domain). However, pairing the massive amount of parental paparazzi pictures (I really blame my Cannon Rebel T1i for this) and lack of time for updates (the mini poop machine herself), our well intentioned hub for photos became a pain in the neck to update and we had to find a more secure and faster way to share. Enter Dropbox <http://www.dropbox.com/> , which may possibly be one of the great geeky loves of my life. With Dropbox (which is free), we could share files between our all computers and share folders with all our family. It was brilliant, now we could instantly bombard our parents with 15 billion photos of our daughter doing all the baby things that we were so enthralled with as new parents. We managed to reclaim our wits long enough to stop us from setting her up on Facebook, partially since her name was already claimed on Facebook, partially because we both remember using MySpace and figure it is only a matter of time before there is a further evolution of social networking, and mostly because my sleep addled brain didnt think about lying about her birth year. Confession 2: My Toddler Has the iPhone Figured Out My daughter has always been instantly attracted to all things gadgety. However when she became fully mobile and started getting a little too excited to see our laptops, we shifted to using our iPhones around her for things like checking in on work emails, recording a video or taking a quick photo to share when she did something super amusing (her new favorite thing is running around in just a diaper and fuzzy bunny boots, Im hoping this is not an indication of her future career choice). While were not big on her having the radiation too close to her head, we would occasionally let her say hi to someone on speaker phone, but we found that we had to stop that practice when she figured out that pressing the big red button hangs up on people, which is still pretty funny. A couple of weeks ago, I was hitting the gym on my way to the office one morning and I rang my husband to check in. His phone picked up and Niblet immediately began to baby talk away. At this point I thought my husband was being cute and letting her talk to Mommy, so I chatted with her for about 3 minutes before I thought it was odd that I hadnt heard anything from my husband. My daughter (who is 16 months old) then set the phone on the ground and I could hear her say, whos dis? In the distant background I could hear my husband calling down the hall Niblet have you seen my phone? Where is Daddys Phone? Apparently, not only had she figured out how to sneak his phone off his desk, but she also figured out how to answer a call by swiping. Im not sure if Im proud of her techno prowess or embarrassed that shes sees us on these things so much that shes figured out their use. Confession 3: Pregnant Women Can Win at Foursquare I started using Foursquare <https://foursquare.com/> for work research and was not an early adopter by any means, but now the darn thing has become slightly addictive. Foursquare is an app where you can check into a location and share with your friends about places you visit and the places where you check in the most, you are declared the Mayor. I was oddly proud the day I became mayor of the local YMCA, even more so that Ive held that title longer then I was the mayor of Pinkberry. Competitive aspect aside, I like checking in on the specials and it is always entertaining to see how much fun your friends are out having (especially if they dont have kids). For me, at seven months pregnant, foursquare has basically just become a chronicle of every public restroom that Ive had to hit in the past couple of weeks, I apparently mark more territory then either of my two dogs, but hey at least Im winning in the points! Confession 4: Battle of the Wii Mote We gave cable the boot a couple of years ago. We have 2 HD antennas, a PS3 in our master and a Wii in the family room and we have found that between Netflix and Hulu we are good to go. Our system works great, we can occasionally stream Sesame Street for Niblet or watch a show when we have some downtime (it can take up to two days for us to watch a 40 min show though). The flaw in our strategy is exposed however, when Niblet climbs the bookcase to get the Wii mote and then runs around laughing while she hits buttons and hides under furniture. It is all fun and games until you have to explain to your company why exactly movies like the Human Centipede are showing up in your Recently Watched list on your Wii. Believe me, the baby did it does not sound plausible to anyone unless theyve actually witnessed the battle for the Wii Mote themselves. |
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