Fred Wilson on Raising Kids - Tweet, Blog and Eat Your Vegetables
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Will it take another bust for us to take them off their pedestal? By all means, lets celebrate the value they have added to the startup ecosystem and the technologies they have enabled in coming to fruition. But for the sake of everything sacred, lets stop taking parental advice from them. Most of us, I am sure, have pretty good parents to look up to, rather than relying on a blog post or a tweet to glean parental advice.
Of course, the argument could be made that Twitter/Tumblr are the modern day journal, but I'm not really buying that, primarily because there is no privacy.
The vast majority of twitter users are in it for the promotion. Kids don't need to promote themselves to those outside of their core group of friends/school. That's one of the reasons I think Twitter took off with more mature demographics, where as Facebook started off with much a younger demographic. Honestly, I use twitter like a notepad/news feed, not to disseminate information to my few followers in real time and I admit there is no real value to it.
These kids will learn the boundaries of public and private sooner and have a great megaphone for promoting whatever it is they choose to do in life.
Sorry, my two year old was logged into Hacker News.