My smart brother-in-law says you must reserve your children's Twitter handle before they can chew their food. Anyone else doing this?
— Jason Hirschhorn (@JasonHirschhorn) January 23, 2012
That's the briefly temporary co-CEO of MySpace, Jason Hirschhorn, explaining The Way We Parent Now.
This about sums it up.
I had to re-read this a couple of times before I realized it wasn't about table manners.
Shit My Dad Says Keiser is going to be extremely disappointed.
I bought my niece a paint set for Christmas, I was pretty nonplussed she knew what it was.
First cemetery plots, then Yale admission, now this?
@My Number Is My Address: A metaphor for the slow and endless crumbling of American standards.
No, Jason.
No one else is doing this.
Overparenting explains a lot, unfortunately. hahahaha I'm geekin out.
I reserved the XXX domain name, am I doing this wrong?
Looks like someone fell for those Google ads.
I just saw this on the 'Captivate' screen in the elevator of my office building under the heading 'Tweets From The Top'. MySpace? The top? Hahahahaah.
I think it's already too late - for some reason, the other day I decided that a Posterous account was just the thing to have. I must have spent half an hour trying to come up with an unused screen name, and ultimately had to use a (long!) random string of letters and numbers. The same thing seems to be going on with Gmail accounts and the like - I know several people with e-mail addresses like "joeschmoe123456@gmail.com". I wonder what the plan is for freeing up unused names? Ultimately, only gibberish is going to be unclaimed, and surely people will get annoyed.
With smart phones, we can check at the hospital to see what Twitter handles are available before we fill out junior's birth certificate!