The Committee to Nuke Elysium

a study published today by Internet security firm AVG found that 5% of babies under 2 have social media profiles, while 7% have an email address.

The main reason for doing this, it seems, is to share baby scans and and information about the pregnancy with family and friends. Meanwhile, many more babies are “online” in some form or other. 23% of fetuses had images of their antenatal scans uploaded before birth.

The idea of babies having an online presence before birth and in early life shouldn’t be surprising, giving the growth of social media in recent years. A positive side effect of the phenomenon, although the study didn’t go into it, is that parents are ‘reserving a patch of the Internet’ for their kids.