The childless can now install a ‘baby blocker’ – but if proud parents follow these rules on social media, we can all play nicely
A “sexual wellness company”, AKA a condom manufacturer – with a name, Skyn, that sounds like a poorly reviewed Netflix Original – has launched a browser extension designed to block pictures of babies. For those of us who can’t really tell the difference between many mini-humans and for whom scrolling through social media can be like being presented with the same Rorschach test over and over, this is good news. Babies – and I speak even as a recent proud aunt – are like dreams: your own are only really interesting to you.
There are, of course, worse things to plaster all over Instagram – weightlifting selfies, pastel-coloured front doors – but some new parents could do with a gentle reminder that not all of their followers want to feel as though they are entering a creche when they open their apps. (Which brings me to the key problem with Skyn’s “Baby Blocker”: it works on desktop Facebook only.) Still, it is possible for parents to share updates on the apples of their eye – unless they are Gwyneth Paltrow, whose daughter Apple told her off for posting a photo without her consent (“We have discussed this”) – in a way that isn’t insufferable. Here, on behalf of all your childless friends, are some pointers.
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